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Press, Volume XIII, Issue 1716, 22 August 1868, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE , Without personal liabiljfyV , . Principal office—New Pitt street, Sydney. Business ;— LIFE ASSURANCES Of every kind ; ANNU HUB', . Present, Deferred, and Reversionary; ENDOWMENTS, Educational, or otherwise, for children, and as a provision for old age. Persons effecting policies with this Society have the guarantee afforded by an accumulated and invested fund amounting,to

HALF-A-MILLION STERLING, And an annual revenue from all sources, exceeding £1 60, 0 00. The Society being constituted .on the principle of MUTUAL ASSURANCE,

And without shareholders, No encroachment upon its surplus accumulations is needed for the payment of dividends, as in the case of a proprietary office, but on the contrary,

THE WHOLE PROFITS , belong exclusively to the members,, and are divided rateably ameng them at intervals -of FIVE YEARS. .Medical Referee at Christchurch :— : -sr W. Deamer, Esq., M.D. For prospectus and any other information apply to the Agent for Canterbury, John Lewis, Cookham House Chambers, 8-13 Christchurch.

Superintendent's Office, Southland, July 1,1868. TENDERS will be received at this Office until noon of the 30th of September, 1868, for the Winton contract, for completion of about 15J miles of the Oreti railway. Drawings and specifications may be seen at the Superintendent's Office, Invercargill, or at the office of Mr Paterson, Engineer, Dunedin, on and after the 16th July instant. The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any of the Tenders. By order, W. H. Atlmeb, 7-18 Clerk to Superintendent.

TO FARMERS AND OTHERS. THE UNDERSIGNED are PURCHASERS of good Samples of MALTING BARLEY. S. Masking As Co. 8-15 Christchurch Brewery. NOW READY, A GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OB NEW ZEALAND, For the use of Schools, I BY JAMES WYLDE, 0.E., I Member of the Philosophical Institute. Contents:— General Description of New Zealand ; Discovery of New Zealand ; The North, Middle, and Southern Islands j Natural History ; Colonisation j Political Constitution j Description of the Provinces, Chatham and Auckland Islands; of the Natives and Native Disturbances ; Tables of Exports, Live Stock, and Land under Cultivation; and Census Table. Price Two Shillings. 8-22

COKER'S GARDENS. A BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN of a SEA LEOPARD, Caught alive at New Brighton yesterday, to be seen alive at the above Gardens, measuring nine feet long, and beautifully marked. Cokbb & Heath, 8-22 Proprietors. PROVINCIAL INVESTMENT AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. MONTHLY NOTICE. THE MONTHLY MEETING for the Payment of Subscriptions and other Moneys for the current month will be held in the Offices of the Association, Cookham-Houße Chambers, Christchurch, on THURSDAY NEXT, AUGUST 27, Being the last Thursday in the month, From seven to nine o'clock p.m. The Manager will receive money up to four o'clock p m. on that and the preceding day. By order of the Board, John Lewis, &£2 Manager.