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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1682, 25 May 1904, Page 77 (Supplement)

It is well-known that the Prudential Life Insurance Company-—one • of the -largest life offices in the world—employs some hundreds of lady clerks with excellent result. Following this lead, it is the intention of the A.M.P. Society to engage a number of lady clerks immediately it establishes an industrial branch of its business, authority for this being given at the annual meeting of the society held last week in Sydney. The ladies will commence work at *a salary of £-25 per annum, with yearly increments of £26, until the « maximum of £IOO per annum i's reached. Probably the largest—certainly the most powerful—set of marine engines yet manufactured in the colony has been toe,d out from Messrs D. Robertson and Co/s foundry m Wellington. The engines are of 375 horsepower, and their weight is twenty-five tons. The erection of the engines has been almost completed, and they are intended for a 'steel steamer that is being constructed at Auckland by Seager Bros., for Mr L. {Seager, of Wellington, for the West-port-W auganui trade; The steamer is being built to carry 350 tons of coal on a draught of Bft 6in. Seager Bros, are making the boiler. - A cable message from London says that Emma, Dowager-Countess of Ravensworth, has been married to her coachman at St. George’s, Hanover GQuare*