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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8007, 11 February 1887, Page 1

Business Notices ON FEBRUARY THE FIRST, AND UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE; THOK-KrOOM BOTJejOBL Great Clearing- Sale. HUGE REDUCTIONS REMAINDER OP DRESS MATERIALS, 20 to 50 per cent. Reduction. Silks at Greatly Reduced Prices. PRINTS AND WASHING MATERIALS at prices which will certainly clear. Shirtings, Cretonnes, Calicoes, Sheetings, at Sale Prices. MEN’S AND BOY’S CLOTHING —ALL REDUCED. Hosiery, Laces, Embroidery, Sunshades, Aprons, Collarettes, Frillings, &0., &c., at Remarkably Low Prices. 4 SHILLINGS IN THE POUND OFF ALL GOODS SHOWROOM. SALE TO-DAY T SALE TO-DAY I WAEJSTOGK, KELLY '&■ ADKIST, THORNDON HOUSE. LAUBTON QUAY, WELLINGTON.

Public Companies. THE UNITED INSURANCE COM. PaNY. IN THE MATTE r”©!? THE FOREIGN COMPANIES ACT OF 1884. "VTOTIGE la hereby given,that f° r the purA. v posea of the above Act all communicationa with regard to the Company'.* business in the Provincial District of Wellington are to be forwarded to our office, Cuatomhouaequay, Wellington. W. A G. TURNBULL A Oo„ Attorneys in New Zealand for United Insurance Company, Wellington, 29th September, 1883, 713 IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. Established 1803. Capital... ... _ £1,600.000 Paid-up and Invested... £700,000 Blake aoocptsd at lowest current rates. Prompt and liberal settlement of claims. Agent: ALEXANDER JAMBS MoTAVISH. Offices—MoTavish, Tatum, A Co,, 819 Lambton-qnay. A USTRALIAN MUTUAL A PROVIDENT SOCIETY. This Society is prepared to grant Loans on approved Bret-class Freehold Security. Borrowers will save' payment of commission by applying DIRECT to the Society, at the offices. Custom House-Quay, Wellington. EDWARD W. LOWE, 4SSB ' : Resident Secretary. ■\7ICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY V (LIMITED), Established 1849 ; Reconstructed 1879. Capital ... ... £1,000,000 Every description of Fire, Marine, and Fidelity Guarantee Risks effected at the Lowest Rates. LEVIN A CO Agents. N ORTHEBN FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Capital ... ... ... £8,000,000 Reserve Fund 2,600,000 Risks accepted at Lowest Bates, GEO. H. SCALES, Agent, Custom House-quay. COLONIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. lapitai. ... ... £2,000,000 insurances effected at lowest current rates Jettlementa made with promptitude and iberallty. , F. ALLEN, General Manager. fJIHB UNION FIRE AND MARINE COMPANY OF NEW '/■EAT,AND, Capital ... ... _ £2,000,000 Fire and Marina Risks accepted at lowest current rates. JOHNSTON A CO., Agents, LIVERPOOL A LONDON A GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1883. Invested Funds .. ... £6,678,204 Claims Paid ... £19,616,178 Fire Reserve Fund ... £1,600,000 THIS Company offers to insurers the security of invested fnnds amounting to. over SIX MILLION POUNDS STERLING. BESXDE3 THE UNLIMITED LIABILITY, OF A VERY WEALTHY PROPRIETARY. By a Special Act of the New Zealand Legislature, the Companyie in a position to ene or be sued in this Co ony. • This Company has ever been noted for Its promptitude and liberality In settling claims. Lowest entrant rates for all classes of Fire Insurance, j . . EDWARD PEARCE, . - Agent £ & r(A £ VI lu Uj rn u 7e The Fibst Watch akd the Fibsx Suit. I READ an. aeoonnt in the Times about a , week ago which; reminded me of the Tailoring trade. The watch took a long time 'to make, and cose a 'big earn, and was not much when it was 1 done j that was became tbe maker had not learnt his trade before be began. There are several people in Welling ton calling themselves tailors who have not made their first suit yet, and it will be: a long time before they do make it. It will cost them a lot, and would not be much when it is dons, because they have not learned the trade. These people a ill tell yon that they can make a suit better and cheaper than a tailor who has spent 80 years of bis life at the trade. Well, gentlemen, if you believe them it will be at your own cost. Reason and common sense will tell yon that these persons must charge more, or give a snit 10s lees in valns than those mads by JAMES HUXLEY, who has been established 12 years, and has never sold the goodwill of bis badness to anyone,