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Press, Volume XIII, Issue 1717, 25 August 1868, Page 1

A USTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT iL SOCIETY. ' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE Without personal liability. Principal office—New Pitt street, Sydney. BUSIKBSS : — LIFE ASSURANCES Of every kind ; ANNU IT I ES, Present, Deferred, and Reversionary ;

ENDOWMENTS, Educational, or otherwise, for children, and as a provision for old age. Persons effecting policies with this Society nave the guarantee afforded by an accumulated and invested fund amounting to HALF-A-MILLfON STERLING, And an annual revenue from all sources, exceeding £160,000.

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 m the case of a proprietary office, but on the contrary, THE WHOLE . PROFITS belong exclusively to the members, and are divided rateably among them at intervals of FIVE YEARS. for Canterbury}' ■' "" :r ' ! John Lbwis, Cookham House Chambers, 8-18 Christohuroh.

Superintendent's Office, Southland, July 1,1868.

npENDEES will be received at this Office JL 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, Inveroargill, or at the office of Mr Peterson, Engineer, Dunetiin.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. Atmibb, 7-18 Clerk to Superintendent.

TO FABMEBS AND OTHEBS. rpHE UNDERSIGNED are PUBX CHASERS of good Samples of MALTING BABLEY. S. MAmrare & Co. 8-15 . Ghristchurch Brewery.

NOW BEADY, A GEOGRAPHY AND HISTOBY OB NEW ZEALAND, For the use of Schools, BY JAMES WYLDE, 0.E., Member of the Philosophical Institute. . Contents:— General Description of New Zealand ; Discovery of New Zealand ; The North, Middle, and Southern Islande; Natural History ; Colonisation; Political Constitution; 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

PBOYINCIAIi 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, Cookhcm-House Chambers, Christchorch, on THUBSDAY 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, Johk Lewis, 8-22 Manager.

CHEAP AND GOOD WINE. /-i OOD DIIhNEB SHERBY and GOOD \JC USEFUL POBT, Sβ 6d per bottle One Dozen Cases delivered any part of town, 40a cash. Thb Eoxhebfisxd, Cashel Street. H< Oh BtTBIfSIi.