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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7779, 11 May 1886, Page 1

Business Notices THORNDON HOUSE. W A KNOCK, K ELLY AND A DKIN Announce second shipment, making a complete, welhselected stock. Having secured the ser* vices, as our buyer, of Mr JOHN WARNOGK (buyer for Robertson, Ledley, Ferguson/ & Co., Bank Buildings, Belfast) who pnrchaies directly from the manufacturer?,- ws nre enabled to place before the public of Wellington the following splendid stock at WAREHOUSE BEIGES; DRESS MATERIALS. Meltons, FouJea, TWeeds, Cheviots,■ Serges, Cashmeres, Kyrle Cloths, Casimiiy Panama, Sanglier, etc. in plain colors and consistent with the same,- a carefully selected assortment of TRIMMINGS, among which the leading goods are : Plush, plain and ribbed ; Velvets, plain and striped/ “Jacquard"* Velvets, Pekin Velours, etc., etc. A fine stock of Black French Cashmeres in the new velvet finish (a very special line). Three large ranges of Colored Velveteens, grand value every color, at 2s Gd, 3s 3d, 4s 9d. SHOW ROOM. New Millinery, novelties in Ulsters, Mantles, Capes, Special Value in Fur Cloak*, Children's new Ulsters and Costumes, New Merino Underclothing. As we Intend to become noted for the beet class of Hosiery imported, we have opened from S, and R. Morloy two large cases* Including all bizhb in plain and ribbed Cashmere Hose. 7* A special lot of Fine Cashmere in dark winter shades. Boys* A "NTT) riT IOVTP. Cl Hoao beat ma^ea » doable heels, toes and kuees, in brown, ±J KA -L-i\y V J—l K j ki ac k- naVy* and heather. New Cloves la Tan Silk and Suede. Lorig Plush embroidered on Silk for evening Wear, Great Variety in kid/ call! and cashmere for winter wear. GENERAL DRAPERY. Blankets, grand value, 7s lid, 8s 6d, ih Gd, 12s Gd, 15s, 21a to 60s, Flannels in all makes, from lOjd to 2a Gd. Sheetings, grey, half bleached and white. Heavy Qolored Shirtings, lOjd, la Id; Damask Tablings, Towels, Quilta, Laoe Curtains, Cretonnes, Linens of all descriptions. Value second to none.' CLOTHING. Just opened Overcoats from 255, Men’s Sac Suits, {term’ 21s, Tweed Trousers from 5s lid, Trousers and Vest, Geelong Tweed, 17a fid (very special). Boys’ Suits from 5a Gd. Felt Hats, great variety. Men’s and Boy’s bast TJoderolothing. A large assortment of Portmanteaux, Travelling Bags and Bugs. Wo issue a special invitation to all purchasers of thoroughly jfc’o'd drapery to inspect the good ß enumerated above. WARNOCK, KELLY AND ADKIN, THORNDON HOUSE, OPPOSITE SUPREME COUKT, LAMBTON QUAY. Five Teb cent Discount Fob Cash. Two and a Half on Monthly Accounts.

Public Companies. LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOfiE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1836. Invested Funds ~ ... £6,673,204 Claims Paid £19,616,178 Eire Reserve Fund ... £1,600,000 THIS Company offers to insurers the security of invested funds amounting to over SIX MILLION POUNDS STERLING,'BESIDES THE UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF A VERY WEALTHY PROPRIETARY. By a Special Act of the New Zealand Legislature, the Company is in a position to sue or be sued in this Colony. This Company has ever been noted for its promptitude and liberality in settling claims. ■Lowest current rates for all classes of Fire Insurance, EDWARD PEARCE, Agent, YICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED). Established 1849 ; Reconstructed 1879. Capital ... _ ... £1,000,000 Every description of Fire, Marine, and Fidelity Guarantee Risks effected at the Lowest Rates. LEVIN & CO Agents. Australian mutual provident SOCIETY, Established ... 1849. The Oldest Mutual Life Office in Australia. New Zealand Branch : Head Office, Customhouse-quay, Wellington, Local Board of Directors : Charles Johnson Pharazyn, Esq, Chairman) The Hon. Sir William Fitzherbert, K.0.M.G., M.L.C. (Deputy-Cbairman) The Hon. Alfred De Bathe Brandon, M.L.C. Charles J. Johnston, Esq., M.H.R, The Hon, Morgan S. Grace, M.D., M.L.C, Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemp, M.R.O.S. (England), Annual Division op Pbofit. The profits of the Society are divided annually. Result of the Thirty-sixth Year (1884). After making unusually ample reserves, the Gash Surplus was £262,434 18s 6d, a larger amount of profit than has ever been realised or divided in one year by any other office in the British Empire. The Invested Funds exceed ... £5,500,000 The Annual Income is upwards of 1,100,000 The Society has more than 61,000 Policies in force, assuring upwards of 22,000,000 During the last 36 years the Society has paid for Claims and Matured Endowments more than ... 2,000,000 The Society has divided among its members Cash Bonuses amounting to upwards of £2,000,000, yielding Reversionary Bonuses exceeding Four Millions. New Business. The new business of the last five years has exceeded two millions per annum—A larger amount annually than has ever been transacted by any other Life Office in the British Dominions. The cost of management, including commission, is unusually low, being only 11£ per cent, cf the total receipts of the year. This rate of expenditure is less than any other Life Assurance Institution either in Europe or America, doing a corresponding amount of new business. Unparalleled Accumulation op Funds. The accumulated funds now exceed FIVE MILLIONS AND A HALF STERLING, Assure your Life in the AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, AND SECURE AN ANNUAL BONUS OR DIVIDEND, A Privilege which no other Life Office in the colony can grant its members. Be careful that you select this Society, and do not be misled by the similarity of name of some of the ether younger Australian Offices. The Society can be considered quite as mucha New Zealand as an Australian institution, seeing that all moneys received in the colony are invested here in advances on mortgage of first-class freehold securities, loans to members on the security of their policies, Government debentures, and freehold branch office premises ; and the Society is thus assisting in developing the resources of the colony, THE SOCIETY HAS ASSETS IN NEW ZEALAND SECURITIES EXCEEDING EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS 1 No other Life Office in the Colony Can give you such LARGE BONUSES AS THE AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, And the effect of an Annual Bonus, which can be taken in Cash, will be to reduce the coat of assurance to the lowest possible minimum. If you are already sufficiently assmed y«"»iirr self, induce your friends to follow your t-samrle. N.B.—The Security affoided by this Society to its policy-holder's is unsurpassed by tnat of any Life Office in the world. The Society haa raised its limit on a single first-class life to £IO,OOO Prospectuses, forms cf and the last Quinquennial Report, and *AI other information, may be obtained on application to tho Resident Secretary, Wellington, or from any of the Society’a agenta. EDWARD W. LOWE, §42 Resident Secretary,

Public Companies Australian mutual PROVIDENT SOCIETY. This Society is prepared to grant Loans on approved first-olaea Freehold Security. Borrowers will save payment oi commission by applying DIRECT to the Society, at the offices, Cnstoifl House-Quay, Wellington. EDWARD W. LOWE, 4353 E-esident Secretary. IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. Established 1803. Capital £1,600,000 Paid-np and invested... £700,000 . Risks accepted at lowest current rates. Prompt and liberal settlement of claims. Agent : ALEXANDER JAMES MoTAVXSH. Offices—MoTavish', Tatum, & Oo„ 810 I‘*—*lsaaibtoh-quay, COLONIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. Capita!. £2,000,000 Insurances effected at lowest current rates Settlements made with prompitude and liberality, F. ALLEN, General Manager. rjpHE UNION FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, Capita!. £2,000,000 Fire and Marina Risks accepted at lowest current rates. JOHNSTON & CO., Agents, S’ ORTHERN FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Capital ... ... ... £3,000,000 Reserve Fuad... ... ... 2,500,000 Kiskscacccpted at Lowest Rates, GEO. H. SCALES, Agent, Custom House-quay. THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION This Association is the Only Office which possesses Government Security and proffers to the public the combined advantages o Mutual Life Assurance Lowest Premiums Inviolable State Guarantee. AMOUNT OP FUNDS. After 15 years' existence, the Office has now Accumulated Funds exceeding One Million Sterling. Funds in June, 1875 £109,967 ! I unds in June, 1880 £459,335 Annual Income exceeds ... i£245j000 The Association offers the most Liberal Conditions extant. branches in all the principal Towns in the Colony, and Agencies at all the Money Order Post Offices in the Colony. LOAN'S ON MORTGAGE. The Association is now prepared to invest part of its Accumulated Funds as LOANS ON MORTGAGE of Freehold Lands in the Colonv, at MODERATE RATES OF INTEREST, to the extent of half the value of the security offered. Applications for Loans of not less than £350 to be addressed to the Acting General Manager, Wellington. Printed Forma of Application can be obtained at the Head Office, and at the Offices of the District and Resident Agents. By order, __ D. M LI7CKIE. Acting General Manager, Head Office, Wellington August, 1883. w ELLINGTON BUY THE | WELLINGTON ALMANACK. 1 FULL TOWN AND COUNTRY DIRECTORY-, PAGES OF USEFUL INFORMATION j_ s o 3BST Xa "ST I s A.LL BOOKSELLERS. WAK3DRTOK & CO Stock and Sharebrokers. Land, Estate, Financial and General Commission Agents, Next Chamber of Commerce, Lambton*<may Wellington,