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New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8163, 15 August 1887, Page 1

Business Notices. SAL E ! Having had an Exceptionally Good Season’s Trade, we are now Prepared TO LOSE £300! Three Hundred Pounds By Giving ENORMOUS REDUCTIONS on the Balance of Stock As Follows— CHOICE & ELEGANT COSTUMES—48s Cd for 37s 6d, 55s for 445, 59s for 47s 6d, 72s 6d for 57s 6d, 78s 6d for 59s 6d, etc., etc. MANTLES, EUR CLOAKS—--32s 6d-lor 255, 35s for 275, 63s for 48s 6d, 70s for 555, etc., etc, MILLINERY--53 in the Pound Returned off our Plainly Marked Prices, GLOVES— All kinds, including Evening, Kids, Silks, and Suedes, at Prices which defy Competition. LACES—--2d to 6d, worth 9d to Is 3d; Allwool Dressing Gown Laces, in every color; 200 dozen White, Cream, and Beige Laces, Id, 2d, 3d, 4d, worth double. RIBBONS— A large lot of Silk and Astrakhan Ribbons, all colors, 10id per yard for Sd. TRIMMINGS— Dress Trimmings, Ornaments, Ruchings, Clasps and Buttons, at Sweeping Reductions, Chenille Ruchings at one quarter of their value. hosiery— From World-Renowned Makers at Sale Prices. DRESS MATERIALS— The Choicest in the City. All Reduce 1. Large Quantities of Dress Lengths and Remnants. Dressmaking by our most Efficient Staff, at Reduced Prices.- Clothing at Sale Prices. THORNDON HOUSE SALE, Warnock, Kelly & Adkin.

Public Companies. 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. Morgan, S. Grace, M.D., M.L.O. (Deputy-Chairman) Charles J. Johnston, Esq. Hon 6. Randall Johnson, M.L.C. William Seed, Esq. Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemp, M.E.C.S. (England). Annual Division of Peoftt. The profits of the Society ate 'divided annually. Result of the Thirty-eighth Year (1886). After making .unusually -ample- reserves, - the Cash Surplus was £342,439 alatger 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 ... £6,690,000 The Annual Income is upwards of 1,330,000 The Society has more than 76,000 Policies in force, assuring upwards of ... ... 27,000,000 excluding Bonuses. During the last 38 years the Society baa paid for Claims and Matured Endowments more than' ... 2,550,000 The Society has divided among its members Cash Bonuses amounting to upwards of £2,767,000, yielding Reversionary Bonuses exceeding 5,000,000, New Business. The new bnsinSlsof the last five years has exceeded £2,000,000 per annum— a lap.oeb amount annually than has ever been transacted by any other Life Office in the British Dominions. The cost of management, ineluding commission, is unusually low, being only 11 per cent, of 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.

Public CompaniesTHE UNITED INSURANCE COMPANY. IN THE MATTER OP THE FOREIGN COMPANIES ACT OF 1884. is hereby given that for the pur_L v poses of the above Act all communicationa with regard to the Company's business a the Provincial District of Wellington are to be forwarded to oar office, Customhousequay, Wellington. W. & G. TURNBULL & Co., Attorneys in New Zealand for United Insurance Company. , Wellington, 29th September, 1886. 713 IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. Established 1803, Capital... ... „ £jUSOO,OSO Paid-op and Invested... £700,000 Risks accepted at lowest current rates. Prompt and liberal setHemsnt of claims. Agent : ALEXANDER JAMES MoTAVISH. Offices—McTavish, Tatum, & Co., 819 Lambton-quay. A USTR ALIAS MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. This Society Is prepared to grant Loans on approved first-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, 4353 Resident Secretary. Y ICTORIA 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. FJIHE UNION FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital _ £2,000,000 Fire and Marins Risks accepted at lowest current rates. JOHNSTON & CO., Agents,

Unparalleled Accumulation of Funds. The accumulated funds now exceed £6,600.000. _ Assure your Life in the AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, AND SECURE AN ANNUAL BONUS OR DIVIDEND, A Privilege which no otheb Colonial Life Office 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 other younger Australian Offices. The Society can be considered quite as much a 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 thas assisting in developing the resources of the colony. THE SOCIETY HAS ASSETS IN NEW ZEALAND SECURITIES Amounting to £986,000 1 No otheb Lira 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 bo to redace the cost of assurance to the lowest possible minimum. If you are already sufficiently aaraied yourself, induce your friends to follow your example. N.B.—The Security afforded by thia Society to its policy-holders is unsurpassed by that of any Life Office in the world. The Society has raised its limit on a single first-class life to £IO,OOO Prospectuses, forma of proposal, and the last Triennial Report, and all other information, may be obtained on application to the Resident Secretary, Wellington, or from any of the Society’s agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, 642 Resident Secretary. OFFICIAL Forms for use In proving debts under the liquidation clauses of the Mfmnj; Companies Act may be obtained a the Office of the New Zkai *nb Timss and I4aix#

COLONIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, FIRE AND MARINE. Capital ... £2,000,000 Insurances effected at lowest current rates Settlements made with promptitude and liberality. F. ALLEN General Manager. LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1833, Invested Funds .. ... £3,673,204 Claims Paid £19,616,178 Fire Reserve Fuad ... £1,600,030 THIS Company offers to insurers the security of invested funds amounting to over SIX MILLION POUNDS STEELING, BESIDES THE UNLIMITED LI ABUTTY OF A VERY WEALTHY PROPRIETARY. By a Special Aet o! tbs New Zealand Legislature, the Compaayia in a position to sue or be sued in this Co ony. This Company has ever been noted for its promptitude and liberality la settling claims. Lowest current rates for all classes of Fire Insurance. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent. ThTORTHEEN FIRE ASSURANCE J3I COMPANY. Capital £5,000,000 Reserve Fund... ... ... 2,600,000 Risks accepted at Lowest Bates. GEO. H. SCALES, Agent, Custom House-quay.