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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 211, 11 September 1897, Page 3

Insurance. 9 "T^rORWICH UNION FIR: INSURANCE SOCIETY. * Amount Insured £335,000,0f 1; Losses Paid 11,600,00 i profits from new zealand j business J ARE RETAINED IN THE COLON'S i —■ < INSURANCES EFFECTED » AT S LOWEST CURRENT RATE.: i L. D. NATHAN AND CO., s Shortland Street. • Chief Agents for Auckland and Taranaki. 7KTEW ZEALAND INSUUANCI ' JLI COMPANY, (EIRE AND MARINE). Capital £1,000,0 ft Paid-up and Reserve Funds .. .. £150,00; > Protection from FIRE or MARINE LOSS cai be ell'ccted in thia Company. CLAIMS MET WITH PROMPTITUDE ANI LIBERALITY. T. J. BUASSEY, Manager. nriHK SOUTH UUITISII LWSI.T.AN'CI JL COM PA NY 0 F NI. W 7, 1 .A LA N I). Capital Paid Up. Rc-in«uranco and Genera Reserve Funds exceed 3-233,000. FIRE & MARINE"iIfsKS ACCEPTEI AT CURRENT KATES. [Prompt and Liberal Settlements. Local Institution. Profits Returned in tho Colony. A. S. RUSSELL, Branch Manager. AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. NEW ZEALAND BKANCH. HEAD OFFICE : CUSTOMHOUSE QUAY, WELLINGTON Local Board ok Directors : The Hou. Morgan S. Grace, M.D., C.M.G., M.L.C. (Chnirtuan) Tho Hon. Charle. J. Johimcon, M.L.C. (Deputj-Chairman) Alfred do Bathe Brandon, Esq. The Hon. Edward Richardson. C.M.G., M.L.C. Joha Dunsan, B_._q. THE OLDEST, WEALTHIEST AND MOST PROSPEROUS AUSTRALIAN LIFE OFFICE AND THK LARCEST IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE. THE ONLY MUTUAL LIFE OFFICE WHICH SKCLARES A BeNtfki EVICKY YKAR. Th» Method of Valuation adapted hy thii Society is of the most .Strincent Cbaractur, and «nH(ir«_ a Larger Itcserve to taunt liabilities than that held by any other office in tho Auatralaaiun Colonies. ACCUMULATED FUND EXCEEDS £13,750,000 (THIRTEEN AND THREE QUARTER MILLIONS STERLING). ANNUAL INCOME EXCEEDS '£2,0©0,000 (TWO MILLIONS) Sterling. POLICIES IN FORCE 128,996 Sum Assured _, £40,731,-.31 CASH EOxN USES Divided £0.843.062 BONUSES: CASH BONUS FOR ONE YEAR, 1898, £428,796. Yielding Reversionurv Bonuses amoantinjt to £830,000. after making; SPECIAL RESERVES. CASH BONUSES DECLARED FOR LAST FIVE YEARS. OVER TWO MILLIONS, YIELDING REVERSIONARY BONUSES EXCEEDING FOUR MILLIONS. Assure Your Life in the A.M.P. Society AND SECURE A BOftflUS EVERY YEAR. EXPENSES? OF MANAGEMENT. g3 PER CENT. ON THE TOTAL INCOME. EDWARD W. LOWE. Resident S«cretnry. Branch Office : CUSTOMHOUSE QUAY, Wellington. O. W. HEMERY. District Sscretary. MUTUAL PROVIDENT BUILDINGS, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND. Public Notices. " "[RENOUNCING THE TREATIES." To some people this phrase, recently seen in the cables from England, conveys the idea that there is a malediction about Mr Chamberlain's intentions regarding foreign nations. It is not quite so severe as that. It means that he will give notice that the "most favoured nation" clause they now enjoy in their Commercial Treaty with England will be terminated, and that the colonies will be permitted, if they choose, to charge higher duties on foreign than on British goods. For instance, the majority of the pianos imported come from the Continent. Beet sugar is another article, and upon which the German Government pay high bounties, _,c as to compete with sugars from Mauritius and Queensland. Mr Chamberlain's commercial mind has grasped the fa^-t that in the British Possessions necessaries of life can be grown on British soil without depending on tho Continent for sugar or China for tea. China, has recently shown ingratitude to England by arranging with foreign Powers for railways, and Mr Chamberlain intends to give tit for tat. What he practically says is-'You foreigners do not Know when you are well off. I'll give the colonies leave to send their produce Home on Froo Trade lines, and enable them to charge extra duties on goods produced outside our Empire. This will give them an opportunity to reciprocate with Ceylon, a British colony, where that delightful Suratura Tea is grown. It is without exception the most invigorating for a tired-out brain the world can produce, and it should be. admitted duty free, and a prohibitive tariff put on the production of the Chinaman, and so hind the AngloSaxon together throughout the British Empire with something better than mere sentiment." Recollect Suratura Tea is not blended with Indian or China, and that in usingthat wonderfully economic household reauisite you are encouraging the PRODUCTION OF BRITISHERS FROM BRITISH SOIL, and not the CHINAMAN FROM CHINESE SOIL. FOR IMMEDIATE SALE, at a very low figure. A nice little HOMESTEAD, 9 acres of good Land; a superior House of (I rooms, scullery, dairy and other outbuildings, orchard, etc. Only one hour's drive from town. Apply to JOHN SOPPET. House and Land Agent, 24, Queen-street.