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RW ENGLAND TH£BEB ifEROHANtI IMPORTER OF ALL JEIND9 BUILDINGMATERIALS Soitabto a>l Kinds . CITY AND SUBURBAN DWELLINGS AND FABM AND STATION BUILDINGS. V J)JL. Timber, PaUngs, and Shingles Galvanised Iron, Ridging and Guttering. PORTLAND~OSMBNT. Local and English Brands. BUILDERS' IRONMONGERY. LOWEST RATES ' Yards and Ofißoe— TUAM BTRSKT, OHBISTOHURCB. & W. KNGLAJSjft AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY Established 1849. The Oldest Mutual Life Office in Australia. New Zealand Branch: Head Office, Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Local Board of Directors: The Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D., C.M.G., M.L.C. (Chairman). Chaa. J. Johnston, Esq. (Deputy-Chair-man). Alfred de Bathe Brandon, Esq. The Han. Edward Richardnon, C.M.G. M.H.R Nicholas Reid, Esq. Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemp, M.R.C.S. (England.) A SSDBE YOUR LIFE in the AUSJ±. TRALIAN MUTUAL PROVDDENT SOCIETY, and SECURE an ANNUAL BONUS or DIVDJEND, A privilege which no other Colonial Life Office can grant its Members. Be careful that you SELECT THIS SOCIETY, and do not be MISLED by the similarity of name of some of the other younger Australian Offices. The attention of the Members and the General Public ia called to some of the special features connected with this Society, which ia the Oldest Colonia Institution of its kind, having been leetablished in the year 1819 V The results of tbe buelne.se for the Forty-first Year, ending Blat December, £89, may be summarised as under :— FIRST—The number of the New Policies issued was 11,664. SECOND—The New Assurance Business effected was for L 3,679,459. THIRD—The New Annual Premium Income amounted to L 121,800, FOURTH—The neb increase to the business, after allowing for lose of income from terminated policies, was represented by 7028 Policies, assuring L 2,109,199. "FIFTH—The operations of the year raised the annnal income of the Society from 11512,280 to 10,625,185, an increase In twelve months ot L112,9G6 ( SIXTH—The Accumulated Fund was increased durin the year by the sum of L 742,311, equal to 7 per cent, of the gro*a premium re. celved. SEVENTH—The deaths among lives assured were 619 under 735 policies, causing claims upon the Society amounting co L 299.602, irrespective of Bonus additions, while the number expected according to the Tables used in estimating the liabilities would have been 1143 for an amount of £438,076, the mar . tality experience being thus extremely favorable. BIGHTH—The receipts from interest and rents were L 516,83& an amount exceeding the sum p»id for the claims by 11138,952. : NINTH—The expenses of Management 'wereonly 9.5 per cent, of the total? receipts. TENTH—The cash surplus divided for the year 1889 was L 426,494, being' at the rate of 4U> per cent.- on the premiums received. The operations of the Society during 4ne forty-one years of its existence may be' summarised as under:— It has Issued 14L907 policies, *ssoring 1i49,417,717. It has paid to the representatives of deceased members over L40Q0.000 in satisfaction of death and matured claims. Iti has divided among the members cash bonuses aggregating over LiOOO,GOQ, yielding reversionary additions of over L 8,000,000. It haa acquired an Accumulated Fund of 1,9,000,000, all invested to yield fully 6 per cent- interest. Assets in New Zea1and—1,1,273,514. EDWABD~W. LOWE, - RmroKKT Sxcsbiasx. Branch Orazce— ' , Custom House Quay, Wellington: Chrlstchurch District Office— ■: " CATHEDRAL SQUARE. W. H. DERRY, Agency Clerk. - STOP THB JBXBPtBI. •■";; TIQNi : OF so many Wilicinea or the Cure of all evila, as. most of them are nothing else but disguised Tnrpentine SLESINGEB'S RHEUMATIC BALSAM Iβ the only genuine and Scientific Pre paration for the Cure of Gouc, Bhenma tlsnx Sdacica, &c, *c. Thousands hare testified' to the Cares effected. ■ . . ""." ; ,, , : . ■ Pamphlets, BLESINGERS HOBSE, CATTLE AND DOG MEDICINES Are approved o£ by all owners of Horses. Cattle and Dogs, all through New Zealand and Australian Colonies. Every penoa who need them was j pleased and nob a single complaint made ! thene forty years, ;■ . ; t;; .: SOLD BYS. COOK, Chemist, C. S. HO WELL, Saddler, . „ :. SaColornej©street. W. PD3IE, Farrier, St. Abaph street* WALLACE and CO., Chemists. ' High street. All of Cfaristchurch. A Gold Medal was awarded mc at the Cbristchcrch Exhibition and first and, Highest Award at Danedin. S. SLESINGBB, ;