CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6813, 18 September 1883, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

MUTUAL. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —Can you or one of- your'numerous subssribers inform, as deceived .Southern shareholders e£ the. •Whereabouts of the liquidators (if any exist) of the Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Company; and if there is any probability of us being enlightened upon the subject of the winding-up process. 1 think it is high time something, was made known as to the actual position of affairs in. this defunct company. We have been kept iu the dark long enough, and the sooner matters are settled, the better for the credit of other Auckland institutions, and Southern shareholders in thejn.—l am, &c, P. Cofpey. Welii.rgton, N. Z., September 6, 1883. [Mr. E. H. Stevenson, manager of the Union .Insurance Company at Auckland, i?

the official liquidator, We learn that by this, mail hasarrivod the account currentfrom the London agents, without which the official liquidator could not go on. There is still au Unsettled loas on geaeral average at Algoa Bay to be received. The warrants have been made out, and there will-be no'delay. —Ed,]

ODR FBSB LIBRAE'S!. TO TDK EDITOR. Sir, —Yon have lately been commenting on thq winfc of judgment displayed in the selection of the last consignment Of books for the Free Library. With this mail the American! Consul has received last year'atw r> volumes of the United States Official Patent Gazette. To-day I had pleasure of glancing at the contents, and I have no hesitation in saying that each volume is a. library in itself.. Toe names Of the inventors are alphabetically arranged, likewise the titles of the so that there is no difficulty in finding the subject looked for. These volumes treat on almost every article' under the sun, and are profusely illustrated where, necessary. Mr. Griffin asked how I happened, to know of the existence of such a work, as he had never heard of it before I. requested him to get a copy for Our Free/ Library. Whether that institution will, get these' two volumes I cannot say, but .am afraid that Mr. Griffin will consider thein too valuable to himself as. works of reference; However, that is one class of literature which, is very much wanted, in New Zealaad,... whioh has. now the most liberal patent laws in the world.—l am, &c., W. Gebenshislds.