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New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8167, 19 August 1887, Page 1

Business Notices. aotjsn SALE ! Having had an Exceptionally Good Season’s Trade, we are now Prepared TO LOSE £300! Three ffiniidred Poiiimls By Giving ENORMOUS REDUCTIONS on the Balance of Stock As Follows— CHOICE & ELEGANT COSTUMES—48s Gd for 37s 6d, 55a for 445, 59s for 47a 6d, 72a 6d for 57a 6d, 78a 6d for 59a 6d, etc., etc. MANTLES, FUR CLOAKS—--32a 6d for 255, 35a for 275, 63a for 48a 6d, 70s for 555, etc., etc. MILLINERY--58 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 la 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, 10Jd per yard for 3d. 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!. Large Quantities of Dresa Lengths and Remnants. Dressmaking by our most Efficient Staff, at Reduced Prices. Clothing at Sale Prices. THOBNDON HOUSE SALE, Warnock, Kelly & Adkin

Public Companies. Australian mutual provident society. Established ... 1849. . The plilest 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.C. (Deputy-Chairman) Charles J. Johnston, Esq. Hon G. Randall Johnson, M.L.C. William Seed, Etq. Medical Officer i Dr. W. G. Kemp, M.R.O.S. (England). Annual Division of Peofit. The profits of the Society are divided annually. . - Result of the Thirty-eighth Year (1886). After making unusually ample reserves, the Cash Surplus was £342,439 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 ... £6,600,000 The Annual Income is upwards of 1,330,000 The Society has more than 76,000 Polioiesinforce, assuring upwards of ... . 27,000,000 excluding Bonuses, During the last 38 years the Society has 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 business of the last five years has exceeded £2,000,000 per annum— a labqkb 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, 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, ; Unparalleled Accumulation of Funds. The accumulated funds now exceed £6,600,000. _ Assnre your Life in the AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, AND SECUBB AN ANNUAL BONUS OR DIVIDEND, A Pbivileob which no othbb 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 mnch New Zealand as an Australian institution, aeing that all moneys received in the colony re invested here in advances on mortgage of rst-class freehold securities, loans to members n the security of their policies, Government ebentures, and freehold branch office preuses ; and the Society is thus assisting in eveloping the resources of the colony. ’HE SOCIETY HAS ASSETS IN NEW ZEALAND SECURITIES Amounting to £986,000 ! lb otheb Life Office in the Colont 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 cost of assurance to the lowest possible minimum. If you are already sufficiently aaitued yourself, induce your friends to follow your example. N.B. The Security afforded by this Society to its policy-holders is UNSUBFASSED 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, forms of proposal, and the last Triennial Report, and all other_ information, maybe obtained on application to the Resident Secretary, Wellington, or from any of the Society’s agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, <542 Resident Secretory. OFFICIAL Forms for use in proving debts under the liquidation clauses ol the Mining Companies Act may be.obtained at iffie Office of the New Zealand Tikes and Man.

ii efi*a t) ti Public Companiesi l ) ) ) ) ) s f s a d b ig e a a r E 3 7 3 1 b i, y i a t a 7 I r b e e y ,t e it >• e y IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. Established 1803. Capital... ... Paid-up and invented... £700,000 Risks accepted at lowest current rates. Prompt and liberal settlement ot claims. Agent : ALEXANDER JAMES MoTAVISH, Offices—McTaviah, Tatum, & Co., 819 Lambton-quay. A USTEALIAN MUTUAL A PROVIDENT SOCIETY. This Society is prepared to grant Loans on approved first-class Freehold Security. Borrowers will save payment of commission bj applying DIRECT to the Society, at the offices. Custom House-Quay, Wellington. EDWARD W. LOWE, 4353 Resident Secretary. V ICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED). Established 1849 ; Reconstructed 1879. Capital ... Every description ot Fire, Marine, and Fidelity Guarantee Risks effected at the Lowest Rates. LEVIN & CO Agents. PjjTHE UNION FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capita! ... ... Fire and Marine Risks accepted at lowest current rates. JOHNSTON & CO., Agents, 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 1836. Invested Funds .. ... £6,073,204 Claims Paid ... ... £19,616,178 Fire Reserve Fund ... £1,500,030 THIS Company offers to insurers the security of Invested funds amounting to over SIX MILLION POUNDS STEELING, BESIDES THE UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF A VERY WEALTHY PROPRIETARY. By a Special Aet of the New Zealand Legislature, the Companyis in a position to sue or be sued in this Co ony. 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, TKTORTHERN FIBS ASSURANCE COMPANY Capital ... ... ... £3,000,000 Reserve Fund... ... ... 2,600,000 Risks accepted at Lowest Rates, GEO. H. SCALES, , Agent, Custom Honso-qnay. WANTED KNOWN—PETER’S LINE of COACHES leaves Palmerston for Woodville daily after arrival of mid-day train from Wellington. Travellers by this rente can go right through to Napier in one day. Heavy luggage and goods forwarded through by brake. Parties wishing to see the beautiful scenery at the Manawatn Gorge can at all times secure saddle horses, buggies, waggonettes, or special coaches by wiring tc A. PETERS, Stone Bazaar, Woodville, oi COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Palmerston. Twenty-five years’ experience on the road