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Insnrance Companies. THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, £2,000,000 sterling. Keserve Funds, £158,125. Chief Offices : Liverpool and London Fire and Life Assurances, Annuities, Endowments, and Reversions. Particular attention is desired to the Life scheme of the Company. Non-forfeiture of policies by the issue of free paid-up policies. Policies granted on Bpecial reduced system. Foreign residence and travelling allowed. Policies are unchallengable, except on the ground of fraud. Partnership policies granted. Fixed surrender values. Bonuses declared every five years : at the last declaration they averaged 46 per cent per annum of the premiums paid. Forms of proposal and further information can be obtained from Fbedebick Hobbs, Christchurch, 9-25 Agent for Canterbury. MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, Without Personal Liabihty. AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. THE ONLY MUTUAL LIFE OFFICE IN THE COLONIES. PERSONS EFFECTING POLICIES with the AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY have the guarantee of an accumulated and invested fund amounting to £400,000 ; and an annual revenue, from all sources exceeding £150,000 ; Life Assurances of every kind. Annuties, Present," Deferred, and Reversionary. And Endowments, educational, or otherwise for children, and as a provision for old age, are granted on the principle of MUTUAL ASSURANCE. And the society being constituted without shareholders, no encroachment upon its surplus accumulation is needed for the payment of dividends, as in the case of a proprietary office, but on the contrary THE WHOLE PROFIfS belong exclusively to the members, and- are divided among them rateably at intervals oi five years.

BONUS PERIOD. Policies issued by the society during the current year will be enritled to participate in profits at the declaration of February, 1869. Medical Referee— Wm. Deamer, Esq., M.D. Agent for Canterbury— John Lewis, Cookham-house Chambers, . 8-23 Christchurch. Government Notices. TO CONTRACTORS. THE TELEGRAPH COMMISSIONER is prepared to receire T-EHDifirtO for the SUPPLY and DELIVERY of one thousand (1000) TELEGRAPH ARMS, as follows:— The arms to be cut from the heart of black birch or stringy bark. ' The arms to be delivered at the General Government Telegraph-office, Christchurch. The arms to be twenty-seven (27) inches in length, two and a-half inches wide, and two and a-quarter inches thick —that is, 2£ x 2\ inches. The arms to be bored for bolts and insulators j with a five-eighth auger, as per pattern, being one hole in centre through the greatest depth of wood, and two holes, one at each end of arm, through the least thickness of wood. The arms to be rounded for carrying off water, as per pattern. The whole of the arms to be delivered within thirty days of signing the contract. Each tender must be accompanied by a deposit of £5 as a guarantee of good faith, which sum will be forfeited should any tenderer refuse to Bign the contract in the event of his tender being accepted. The usual sureties will be required of the accepted tenderer. Patterns may be seen, and further particulars obtained, at the General Government Telegraph-office, Christchurch. Tenders, addressed " The Telegraph Engineer, Wellington," and endorsed " Tender for one thousand telegraph arms," to be sent in not later than Thursday, the 7th of November next. By order, Alebed Sheath, Telegraph Engineer.

N. Z. Government Telegraph Department, Wellington, OctoberJ24,lß67. 10-28 EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT. SALTWATER CREEK. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that his Honour the Superintendent, in pursuance of the powers vested in him by the Bth Clause of the Education Ordinance, 1864, has fixed MONDAY, November 25, at the Schoolroom, Saltwater Creek, at seven o'clock p.m., as the time and place at which the ELECTION of a new DISTRICT SCHOOL COMMITTEE for the Saltwater Creek Educational District may take place. F. E. Stewabt, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Oct. 22, 1867. 10-24 PUBLIC NOTICE. I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE pursuant to Clause VI. of " The Canterbury Waste Lands Act, 1866," that an application was lodged in the Land Office, Christchurch, on the Bth inatant, by George Gray Russell, as holder of Pasturage License No. 539, Class 3, to have a separate license issued by the Waste Lands Board to Edward Elworthy of that portion of land described in the aforesaid license, situated to the eastward of the White Rock River, and containing 7500 acres or thereabouts ; and a separate license issued to the said George Gray Russell of the remaining portion of the said run, situated to the northward and westward -of the White Rock River. If any person can show cause why such separate licenses as aforesaid should not be issued, the same must be made known to the Waste Lands Board before the 12th day of December next. William Gt/ise Bbittan, Chief Commissioner. Land Office, Christchurch, October 16,1867. 10-17