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Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 3893, 14 January 1878, Page 4

VICTORIA FLBE AND MARINE INSU ANCE COMPANY. Established 1849. fitRE DEPARTMENT i TNSURANCES effected en Dwellings, Fun X tare, Shops, St-ek-in-Trade, Merchandii Hot_, Workshops, Saw Mills, Threshers, _o, _ MARINE DEPAP-TMENT i Insurances effected on Wool, Produce, Hu of Ships or Steamers, Merchandise, Freigh Ao. Prompt and liberal settlement of losses. RICHARD WALTON, Agent, Hereford 'street, 634 Ne-t Bank of New Zealand. XTATIONAL INSURANCE COMPAIS i>l OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital £1,000,000 Paid up, £50,000: Reserve, _70,000. THIS PURELY LOCAL OFFICE Presents many advantages to the Insuring Publ The Capital and Profits are RETAINED IN THE COLONY. THE HEAD OFFICE and Management being local, settlements i made without vexatious delays, or referenc< to offices at a distance. RATES AND TERMS equal to those offered by — y Company in i A. GARRICK', Manager, 12-15 4561 tFor Canterbury, Christchnrch NION FIRE AND MARINE I SURANCE COMPANY OF N_ ZEALAND. Capital _. ... .£2,000.000. Head Office—Hereford street, Christchurcl FIRE D-PAJIT-TENT— Insurances effected on dwelling-houses or i contents thereof, stores, hotels, and every ot] description of insurable property. marine departmentWoo!, Merchandise, Freights, Hulls of Ships Steamers ALL INSURANCES (Effected at Current Rates. ;W. DEVENISH MEARES^ 12-17 5756 General Manager l rpHE UNITED _NSU___rc_TcO_fp__i FIRE AND MARINE. Capital £500,000 Head office —George street, Sydney. Fire and Marine risks taken at tbe low current rates. SUB-AGENTS : Lyttelton—Messrs Cameron Brothers. Rangiora—Mr W. A. Burt. Timaru—Wm. Evans Temuka —Mr Edmund Pilbrow. Ashburton —Messrs Jameson Brothers A & St. Albans—Mr J. W. Philpott. JAMESON BROTHERS & CO., 12-1 4038 Agents for Canterbury. THE SOUTH BRITISH: MRE AND MA_I___NS___NCECOMPAN OF NEW ZEALAND. CAPITAL M ... £1,000,000. With Unlimited Liability of Shareholders. THE above Company offers undoubted I ourity to insurers, having a large, wealth and influential proprietary resident in the Colon where also all its funds are invested. As PURELY COLONIAL mSO-TUT-ON, ith therefore a prior claim on insurers. Tho chi characteristics of the Company are liberal tern and prompt settlement of losses. FIRE AND MARINE BISKS taken lowest current rates of premium. WOOL insured from sheep's book to Londo For proposal forms and further particu—u apply to H. Hawkins, Lyttelton; J..L. Wilso Kaiapoi; J. H. Sutter, Timaru; J. Strachs Pleasant Point; Bullock and Co., Ashburto: Wood Bros, and Co., Akaroa; W. Buss, __ngioi H.E. Daniell, Woodend; W.Wills, Temuk Cameron Bros., Waimate; John Paul, Oxfor J. Johnston, iWaddington; W. Crabtree, I Albans; J. H. Hopkins, Woolston; C. Davies, Prebbleton; J. W. Heath, Addmgto: Bonn and Co., Amberley; J. Henry, Dunsande Taylor and Flatman, Waihi Bush; Inwo Bros., Winchester; J. J. Herrick, Tai Taj Agents wanted in unrepresented districts. J. DEUMMOND MACPHERSON, 7-4 7833 Manager. Chriatoh-rch. Publications. Ahe Weekly xeesi JANUARY 12th. TABLE OF TONTENTS. Pag Cueeent Topics—Mr Bowen at Kaiapoi —The Education Bill—Our Defences— The District Railways Act—The Crisis in Victorio 15-! Telegrams—European — Colonial—The Premier's Progress—lmmigrant Ship Quarantined at Napier—Mr Reynolds at Dunedin—Sir George Grey and the Natives — Gold from New Guinea — Fatal Fire at Auckland—Wellington and. Canterbury Cricket Match—;Greymouth Coal Mining Company—-Fire at Havelock—Extraordinary Accident at Wellington—Earthquake at Napier— Timaru Harbor Works—Maritime Accidents—The Australian Eleven —The Crishrin Victoria —Important S»le of Steamers—Seizure of an Illicit StillMr Reynolds' Retirement 8, Meetings—The Drainage Board—WoiI makariri Harbor Board—North Rakaia Board of Conservators—Lyttelton Regatta—Canterbury College—Mr Bowen at Rangiora 13,1 The Courts 7, Road Boards... 14,1 Educational The Yeoman—Draught Stock—Care of Horse3—Raising Colts —Farm Losses— Managing Grass Land —Ososre Orange Hedging—Feeding for Milk and Butter —Counting Sheep—Food for Laying Fowls —Value of Poultry Manure The Garden—Memoranda by Mr Robert Chudley-Wardiun Cases—Parlor Carpet Bedding ... | The Sportsman — Races to Come— Sporting Notes by " Sinbad "—Hokitika Races—North Canterbury Races— The Melbourne Champion Race—English Racing : The Dewhurst Plate—The Liverpool Cup—The Great Lancashire Handicap—Cricket: Programme of Association Matches— Cricket Notes by " Not Out"—The Australian Eleven in Victoria and Invercargill—Champion Pigeon Shooting-r-Exhibition Billiards .- Mr H. Roberts at Christchurch ... 5, < Entertainments, &c—Notes by "Triboulet"—Art, Literary, and Dramatic Gossip 1] Poetry—The New Baby—Which One ... J Ladies' Column—To Make a Beautiful Rug—Lingerie—The Home S The Novelist—An Appalling Appetite... 2, 3 Colonial Items 4 General—Fire at Kaiapoi—Thunderstorm in the Peninsular-rChristchurch Turkish Baths—The Hawea Excursion to the West Coast Sounds— Timaru — The Middle Party—Collision on the Waikato Railway—The Fisheries Act —Mr Gladstone's Visit to Ireland—The Finding of Captain McGowan—General La Marmora—The Australian Blondin —Notes of the Month —Novelties in Decoration 18,19 Harvesting Prospects ll Varieties ... ._ 3 r_E Loafer in the Stbeet ... ... 17 Weekly Summary 11 Latest Shi_>p__ig, Commercial, Stock and Produce Markets ... . 10 THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS MONTHLY SUMMARY For -transmission to Europe, VIA HUBZ, IS NOW PUBLISHED And contains the following ENGRAVINGS: 1. Fairy Tales. 2. Mount Abrupt, Victoria. 3. On the Merri Creek, near Craigieburn, Victoria. 4. The Adelaide Cabmen's Fete. 5. Lady Bountiful. 6. Polynesian Sketches—The Salomon Group. Village in New Ireland. Natives of New Britain. Duk Duk at Duke of York Island. Metlik, Residence of King Tom. Sing Tom and his People. 7. High School, Hobart Town, from Trinity HOI. 8. Seal Rock Lighthouse, N.S.W. 9. The New Ministry of South Australia — Hon. T. Playford, Commissioner of Lands and Immigration. Hon. N. Blyth, Minister of Education. Hon. W. Morgan, M.L.C., Chief Secretory. Hon. J. P. Boucaut, Treasurer. Hon. C. Mann, Attorney-General. , Hon. G. C. Hawker, Commissioner of Public Works and Agricnlture. 10. The Hon. J. L. Casey, Chairman of the Victoria Paris Exhibition Commissioners. 11. Mr George Collins Levey, Secretary to the Victoria Paris Exhibition Commissioners. ND ALL THE NEWS OF THE MONTH. Price—Sixpence.