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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9285, 12 February 1889, Page 4

ITISITORS TO SYDNEY. ROBERTS' JJOTEL, GEORGE AND MARKET-STREETS, SYDNEY. ills Magnificent Hotel, is Lighted by Electricity .-. _ •-f and POSSESSES EVERY MODERN cokvenienoe AND COMFORT. It is Beautifully Furnished, and SITUATED IN THE .VERY CENTRE OF THE CITY. For Apartments address the Manager. WE are determined to clear the reW mainder of our Winter Stock for our Spring Goods coming forward. In order to do so we will hold a CHEAP CLEARANCE SALE for a short period. Tweed Trousers from 12s Gd Saddle Tweed Trousers, 21s Tweed Suits, £2 10s In fact no reasonable offer refused. Come Early if you wish to secure the best of the Goods. £2000 worth to select from. J. DAVEY & SONS, Tailors, 270, Queen-street (Junction of Queen and Wake field-streets), T> EDUCTION OF MEDICAL FEES '±\j TO ENGLISH RATES. UK. BAKKWEI.L, M.0., M.R.C.S. Eng., formerly Hou.se Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, London, author o, Coughs, Colds, and Sore Throats," &c, &c, may be consulted at his residence, Fallon's Buildings, Hobson-street, from 9 to 11 a.m., and 3to 4, and 6to 8 p.m. Sundays, from 9.30 to 10.30. Fee : For tirat consultation 3s Cd, subsequent consultations 2s 6d, including medicine. Visits in Auckland ss, including medicine. Night visits, one guinea. mHE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED) MAKES LIBERAL ADVANCES TO APPROVED SHIPPERS ON WOOL, TALLOW, KAURI GUM, FLAX, And other Produce consigned to it for sale in London SEVERAL FARMS AND STATIONS FOR SALE In every district in the Colony. Full particulars will be supplied on application to the Company's Office, 119 Queen-street. IT| ENT A L NOTICE. A. L. SMITH, OLD-ESTABLISHED D KNTIST, Corner of HOBSON and WELLESLEY Sts Artificial teeth fitted without extracting stumps Other dentists' work repaired. Painless extraction, by gas or chloroform. Charges moderate. Consul tations free. From 10 a.tn. to 8 p.ui RT TV/I" cFARLAND & QON, LAND AGENTS, AUTHORISED NATIVE LAND AND MINING SURVEYORS, Licensed under Land Transfer Act, QUEEN-STREET Next -to Ujjkald Office (upstairs).

"TO'EDNESDA'X, FEBRUARY 20,1889. STRIKING SERIES OF SHORT STORIES. ORIGINAL 1 POWERFUL! UNIQUE ! ENTITLED THE ROMANCE OF AN JNSURANCE QFFIGE. Being Passages in the Experience of Mr. AUGUSTUS WILLIAM WEBBER, formerly General Manager to the Universal Insurance Co., j BY J. MARSDEN SUTCLIFFE. On the above date we shall commence publication of a remarkable Series of Short Stories, entitled "The Romance ot au Insurance Office," from the pen of a gentleman of great experience and considerable literary attainments, well qualified in every way to deal with the topics brought forward. "The Romance of an Insurance Office" will bo of a surprising and sensational character, while in no wise overstepping the bounds of probability. This forthcoming Series of Storiea—to which we have pleasure in inviting oar Readers' attention— will conimoiice publication ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, And will be continued weekly. The Storiea will be conspicuous by their abundance of incident, their rapidity of movement, the continued development of plot, and the powerful climax reached in the chief situation of every narrative. Each story will be complete in itself, thus enabling Readers to take up the thread at almost any point and follow with keen interest the fortunes of the characters introduced to their notice. The TITLES OF Til E STORIES which will appear in the above Series are as follow :— BEFORE THE CURTAIN. THE CROSS HALL TRAGEDY. THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF MR. CONSTAM. THE MYSTERY AT CLUMP COTTAGE. THE WAY OF THE WORLD. DR. JAQUETS SECRET. CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP. AN OLD MAN'S DARLING &c &c The introduction is bright and attractive, giving promise of the treat in store. From it we learn something of the operations of the Universal Insurance Co., a gigantic combination prepared to take risks of every conceivable kind. Prom time to time Frauds are perpetrated on the Company, and the General Manager, Mr. AUGUSTUS William Webbkr, together with the Company's Private Detective, Dogoet, find themselves set to solve various mysteries, tragic or romantic, as the case may be. The materials accumulated in their researches are made capital use of by our Author, who gives a free rein to his imaginative faculties when working out the details of his plots. The first weekly part will consist of the Sketch BEFORE THE CURTAIN And the Opening Chapters of THE RCOSS HALL TRAGEDY. READ " THE ROMANCE OF AN INSURANCE OFFICE." A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES BY J. MARS DEN SUTGLIFFE. COMMENCING PUBLICATION ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20.