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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXV, Issue 7862, 18 May 1886, Page 7

Government IfotifioatioßUi. v. -THE jgrEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT INSURANCE ASSOCIATION. This Association is the Oflly Office which Possesses Government Security, and proffers to the Pnb» lie the combined advantages of MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE LOWEST PREMIUMS INVIOLABLE STATE GUARANTEE, AMOUNT OF IPUNDS. After IS years’ eristaheo, tha Office has now Ao> cumulated funds exceeidiagr One Million Sterlings Funds in June, 1875... £109,967 Ponds in June, 1880..; £459,335 Funds in 1885, over £1.000,000 ANNUAL INCOME EXCEEDS £245,000. The Association offers THE MOST LIBERAL CONDITION? EXTANT. Branches in all the Principal Towns In ths Colony; <“»<! Agencies at ail the Money Order 1 oetoffices in the Colony. LOANS ONMORTGAGB. The Association is now prepared to invest part of its Accumulated Funds as LOANS on MOETGAGE of Freehold Lands in the Colony, at MODERATE RATES OF INTEREST, tothe ex. tent of half the value of the security offered. Applications for Loans of not legs than £350 .to be addressed to the Acting General Manager, Wellington. Printed Forms of Application can be obtained at the Head Office, and at the Offices of the District and Resident Agents. District Agent for Canterbury ... J. C, PRUDBOri By order, D. M. LUCKIE, Head Office, Man ** er< July. 1885. 6815 381 Land Transfer Act Notices. LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICE. NOTICE- is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “ The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” unless caveat be lodged torbidding the same on or before the 14th day of June, lßßoj—--6798. Maegaeet Mack at and John Morrison.— 2 roods 8 perches. Lots 8,9, It 1 , 27, and 28. Plan 368, parts of Lot 2, Christchurch Town Reserves. 6812. John Hbnbt Hewitt.- 1 rood 34 perches, part of Rural Section 79, Borough of Sydenham. Occupied by Thomas Lennox Gibson and Groves. 5835, George MacLban.—l rood 8 perches. Lot IS, Plan 29, part of Rural Section 3166, Town District of Amberiey. Unoccupied, 5836. Thomas Abbott.— l acre, part of Rural Section 148, Borough of St Albans. Occupied by Applicant. 5837. James Denison.— SO acres. Rural Section 7764, Leeston Survey District. Occupied by Applicant. Diagrams may be inspected at this office. Dated this Bth day of May, 1886, at Lands Registry Office, Christchurch. J. M, BATHAM, District Land Registrar. the 1111 nSSKSSSSS Ch.risteh.ureh City Council. WANTED, an ENGINEER for the Chester street Fire Station, Specification of duties and salary to be seen at the City Council Office, where applications are to be sent by WEDNESDAY, the 26th inat. By order. F. T. HASKINS, - Town Clerk. ! City Council Office, 13th May, 1886. ISIS O N MA T 21st, 1886, WILL BB COMMERCES IN TEE “ CAtfTEHBURY TIMES ” A NEW NOVEL, NBIITX.BD THE TREASURE OP THORBURNS, BT FREDERICK BOYLE, Author of “A Good Hater,” "On the Border Land,” *o.; Contributor to “Blackwood," “Temple Bar,” "Comhill,” “Longman's," “English Illustrated,” &c., and War Correspondent. We have much pleasure in announcing that a NEW and EXCELLENT STORY will be commenoed in the columns of the CANTERBURY TIMES on MAY 21,1886, by the above gifted and charming writer. By the sterling merit of his work ME BOYLE has won his way to eminence in varied fields of Literature. _ As War Correspondent, and Traveller in climes on the borderland where Christian and barbarian meet, he has by pe-sonal observat on obtained a large and varied knowledge of the world ; and his graphic pen has enabled him to place before the public thrilling adventures and marvellous experiences in a style that has made his work immensely popular. But Mr Boyle's talents are of a versatile character, and as a writer of light literature he has fairly won a good place among the foremost novelists of the day. In proof of the high estimation in which it is held, we may quo’e the late Charles Beode’s opinion of Mr Boyle's Literary Work. In the preface to “A Simpleton,” Mr Etude says:—“My principal obligation on this head is to Mr Beyle’s admirable letters, reprinted in a delightful volume, Mr Boyle has n painter’s eye and a writer's pen, and, if the African scenes in * A - impletou ’ please my readers, I hope they will go to tho fountain head, where they will find many more." The Plot of the new Story is well conceived and admirably worked out. The secret of the Story, the hidden • and much sought Treasure of Thorbnrns, is admirably kept to the end. 'here is plenty of movement in the Story, for while the central scene is laid in an English village, there is the customary touch of life on the borderland of civilisation and savagery, for which Mr Boyle is so famous The leading characters in the Story are thoroughly interesting persons, and their conduct is delineated with the realism of life itself. Thera is plenty of sensation in it, but withal the Story is throughout a thoroughly good one, readable by the entire Family Circle. We have, indeed, the fullest confidence that the Story now announced will enhance Mr Boyle’s already brilliant reputation, and afford tho liveliest satisfaction to the present Readers-and also to those whom we expect to become readers—of the Canterbury Times Fiction. PEESBCRITICISMS ONNOVBLS AND OTHER WORKS BY MR B jYLEi “ This charming volume.” —Court Journal, “ It is a very entertaining volume." — Queen. “ Mr Boyle s talents are well known.”—Globe. “ Therovel is exceedingly clever."— Daily News. Mr Frederick Boyle can tell a good story.” World. “There is much pathos in the entire picture.’’— Graphic, “ This very amusing book.’’—Times (from a review ot two-aud-n-half columns long). “ One of the cleverest and most attractive stories recently published.”—Daily Telegraph. “It would be difficult to mention a better batch of stories than are contained in this capital hook.” — Echo. “ An unusually good story of love and adventure. ‘The Golden Prime’ should be widely read,’’— Morning Post. “ A full and brilliant picture of life. A B effective a thing of the kind as we have ever seen in fiction." —Poll Mall Gazette. ' ..... “ A very readable collection of stories, in which his descriptive power comes out very pleasantly." — North British Daily Mail. . ■ “ A series ot chapters and good atones which, for genuine thrilling interest, have never been surpassed in any previous works fro® his pen, Scotsman. "As a writer of stirring stories, founded on his own experience in many unfamiliar parts of the world, Mr Boyle has few, if any equals.’’—Brood Amio. : .. . , . " Though the fruit of personal expenence, the tales are fascinating enough to have been invented, one being a ‘ regular good ghost story."’—lfhite. hall Seview. “Felicity in description of scenes and peoples is a grand quality for a traveller to possess, and is one in which it is no flattery to say Mr Boyle excels."—Bond and IKafer. “He writes with the ease of a trained storyteller. The legends are woven with the skill of a practised hand. The adventures read as well as if they hod actually happened.”—St James’ Gazette. “ The chief literary gift of the Author of • On the Border Land’ is his power of making the reader feel the air, the atmosphere and oolonr of the strange and remote places he describes.”—Saturday Seview. “A book of spirit and vivacity. It fa.no BligVt praise of this work to say tK*<& it frequently reminds ns of some ot the ’best and brightest passages in the late Henry Kingsley's best and brightest stories."—Standard. “ There is not a dull pige, we may say not a dull line in it, from beginning to end. Now and then there is. a touch of Nathaniel Hawthorne, more frequently one of Edgar Poe; but. after alh tike writer whom Mr Boyle most resembles is himself.” — Spectator.