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Insurance Companies. T |HE NEW ZEALAND FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1859. Capita! Paid-up Capital and Reserve ..,£1,000,000 £400,000 THE PREMIER AND WEALTHIEST COLO- , , NIAL COMPANY. Noted ter Promptness and Liberality, Branches and agencies throughout the World. DAVID CRAIG, Manager, FIRE H E XT N 1 O N MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, Hereford street, Christchurch, CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED £8,000,000 Paid Up ... ...£IOO,OOO | Reserve Feud...£60,000 mHW COMPANY, the osir institution of the B kind having its HEAD OFFICE AND MANAGEMENT IN CHRISTCHURCH, Is prepared to Effect FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCES Of erorv description at current rates. W. DEVENISH MEARES, General Manager. List of Canterbury agents in Saturday's Issue. rniFcoioN'i a Y "mu~t uXiTTi fe ASSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED, Cathedral Squabb, Christchurch. FOR LIFE ASSURANCE, ANNUITIES, AND ENDOWMENTS. Moderate Premiums. All profits belonging to the members. Policies unconditional, unchallengeable and indefeasible. Dj£LGETY & COMPY, Local Agents. njtHE MUTUAL SOCIETY OP VICTORIA (LIMITED). Head Office: No. 77, Collins street West, Melbourne. FOE LIFE ASSURANCE AND ENDOWMENTS. Policy-holders Divide.Proflts. Head Office for Middle Island, New Zealand s OLONIAL BANK BUILDINGS, DUNEDIN. DIRECTORS Hen W. H. Reynolds, M.L.C., Chairman John M. Ritchie, Esq., J.P. John Roberts, Esq., J.P. WILLIAM WILLS, Resident Secretary. CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT AGENCY. CJtf Chunters, Hereford street, (Opposite Bank of New Zealand). W. H, BROWNE, 8630 140 District Agent. mH 3 PHCENIX FIE E~OF PIC E ”** OP LONDON, ESTABLISHED 1782. JOHN IN JLIS; Christchurch. Liverpool and London and globe INSURANCE COMPANY. Established in the Colonies, ISS3. Losses paid in the Colonies ... £1,247,108. The largest Fire Insurance Company in the World. Fire Reserve Fund £1,500,004. JAMES A. BIRD, Manager for Canterbury, 148, Cashel street,- Christchurch. 3596 275 HAMBUE6-MAGDEBUEG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG. Paid-up Capital £133,000 3"( HE Magdeburg Fire Insurance Co., The Magdeburg Ee-insurance Co. The Magdeburg 1 neral Insurance Co., With Capital and Reserve Funds amounting to £3,400,000 sterling. Are interested in every risk undertaken. All descriptions of insurable property covered at lowest current rates. Prompt and liberal settlements. Agent—JAMES HENDERSON, Stock and Sharebroker, Land, Estate, and Financial . Agent, Licensed Broker under the Land Transfer Act, and General Commission Agent. 178, Hereford street, Christchurch. 5144 407 T HE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND.

Capital £1,000,000 Unlimited liability of Shareholders. Fire and Marine Bisks taken at lowest Current Bates. E. WALTON & CO., 3303 Managers fox Canterbury. Publications. THE MERCANTILE AND BANKRUPTCY GAZETTE OF NEW ZEALAND—The Proprietor, in thanking his numerous subscribers in Dunedin, Christchurch, ■ Invercargill, Hokitika, Blenheim, Nelson, Wellington, Napier, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Auckland, Ac., Ac., and the other Provincial towns, for their liberal support in the past, begs to assure them, now that the Gazette has entered its ninth year of publication, that no pains and expense will be spared in the future in making it, as in the past, the most useful and reliable circular in New Zealand, Besides having the largest and most influential list of subscribers, the Mercantile and Bankruptcy Gazette contains the fullest particulars of all securities filed under the Chattels Securities Acts, and matters pertaining to Bankruptcy filed in all the chief cities and towns, and more than any other of its kind in the Colony. The M. and B. Gazette is the only Gazette for the Coleny published in New Zealand. Annna subscription, £2 2s, payable in advance ; Halfyearly Index, published in January and July in each year, 5s per annum extra. Agent for Canterbury, Mr George A. Makeig, Hereford street, Christchurch. Head Office, Dunedin— E. T. Wheeler, Advertising Agency, Stafford street. The Canterbury Times. SATURDAY, APEIII9. TABLE OP CONTENTS t—--24 Adtebtisexbhts ... 1,2, 3,4, 5, 6,15,16, SO, SI, 82 Aoeiccltcbai,- Seeds Agriculture in England dence 7, 8, fl AMUBEMxars— Dramatic Doings in New Zea- ] and and Australia—Foreign Gossip—Death of Mr H. J. Byron Aqua tic—Event? to Come—Notes (by Jason) — Intercolonial Boat Eace: Victoria- v. New South Wales Ahecdo x al -An Uninvited Guest — Rabelais ... Athletic Athletic Fixtures Dinnie and Miller Matched—An Athletic Contest Bibths, Mabbaaoes, ahd Deaths Bbevixies Chess—Zukertort in Americor-Eny Lopez ... COMMEECIAL ... CooKHisa —Coursing Fixtures—Notes (by Free Lance)—North Canterbury Club—Ashburton Coursing Club—Waterloo Cnp Meeting Cbicket—Cricket in America—The Hon Ivo Bligh's Team in Australia—Bankruptcy of Greenwood—A Cricket Curiosity—Cricket in Wellington (by Uiagoras)—lnterprovincial Match: Wellington v, Canterbury ... 13 Dbauohts—Alma 25 Football—Football Fixtures Notes (By Hornet)—East Christchurch y. South Canterbury—The Sydenham Team in Dunedin 12,13 Ladies’ Coluhe—Mrs Meander on Conversational Egotism—To Miss Arabella Gad--12 7 ... 14 ... 6 28,29,30 17,18,19 22,23 ... 25 ... 27 ... 28 20, 21, 22 6 15 about... Late News Litebakt— Notes Litebatobe—Various Tales Local ahd Oeseiul Local Eepoktb Medical —The Diet of Invalids Mobckaux POETBT Political Sciehcb— Scientific Gossip .„ Sh.ppiho Spobtiso— Racing Calendar-Sporting Notes (by Aotffion)—Nominations, Acceptances, and Weights—C.J.C, Autumn Meeting— Auckland Anturau Meeting—Plumpton Park Races—Hokitika Races—Australian Notes—A.J.C. Autumn Meeting—Hawkesbury Autumn Meeting—Sporting Notes from Homo (by Hellos) 0,10,11,12 Teleobahu 19,20 The Editob’s Abx-Chaib—A Sympathetic Question—The Bull Beaten—Kina Words versus Oaths—Newspaper Entorpriso~A Novel Singing Contest ... The Qabden—Work for the Week—Garden Hints—Top-dressing Fruit Trees 7 The Natcbalist—Hides and Horns 37 The Skbtckeb— Life of the Princess Alice —'Hie Field of Honour—King against King 25, 28 The Tbatelleb— The Cliff Houses of Canon de Chelly “ The Week Übzpul Hihts Wool Bales 27 10,17 7 23 THE CANTERBURY TIMES Is published every Saturday. PRICE SIXPENCE.