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New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8168, 20 August 1887, Page 1

Business Notices. THORIDON / / - P" FIRST SPRING SHOW DRESS MATERIALS. FURTHER DETAILS IN A FEW DAYS. Warnock, Kelly Sc 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 G. Randall Johnson, M.L.C. William Seed, Efq. Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemp, M.R.O.S. (England), Annual Division of Pboftt. The' profits of the Society are divided annually. 4 ' 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 Policiesinforoe,aßsuring upwards of ... 27,600,000 excluding Bonuses. During- the last 3 8 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 npwarda of £2,767,000, yielding Reversionary Bonuses exceeding 5,000,000. New Business. The new business of tbe last five years has exceeded £2,000,000 per annum—a laeqeb 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. Uhpaballbled Accumulation of Funds. The accumulated funds now exceed . £6,6 00,000. Assure your Life in the AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, AND BECUBE AN ANNUAL BONUS OR DIVIDEND, A. Pbivileok 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 tbe 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 Amounting to £986,000 J No 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 Gash, will be to rednee the cost of assurance to the lowest possible minimum. If you are already sufficiently aanmed yourself, induce yonr friends to follow your example, N.B.—The Security afforded by this Society to its policy-holders is unsurpassed oy 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, may be obtained on application to the Resident Secretary, Wellington, or from any of the Society’s agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, 943 Resident Secretary. OFFICIAL Forms fop use In proving ■ debts under the liquidation clauses of < the Mining Companies Act may be obtained it the Office of tbe New Zeahusu Times and ' Sitlt,'

Public Companies. IMPERIAL EIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. Established 1803. Capital _ £1,300,000 Paid-np and invested... £700,000 Risks accepted at lowest enrrent rates. Prompt and liberal settlement of claims. Agzkt : ALEXANDER JAMES MoTAVISH. Offices—McTavisb, Tatum. & Co., 819 Lambton-qnay. A UST BA L lAN MUTUAL J±. PROVIDENT SOCIETY. This Society is prepared to grant Loans on approved brat-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, 4858 Resident Secretary. ■^TICTOBIA, INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED). Established 1849 ; Reconstructed 1879. Capital ... _ ... £1,000,000 Every description of Eire, Marine, and Fidelity Guarantee Risks effected at the Lowest Rates. LEVIN & CO Agents. rjlHB UNION EIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OE NEW ZEALAND, Capital _ £2,000,000 Fire and Marina Bisks accepted at lowest current rates. JOHNSTON & CO., Agents, OLONIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OS' 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 Panda .. ... £6,678,204 Claims Paid £19,616,178 Fire Reserve Fund ... £1,500,000, 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 Companyia 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 enrrent rates foe all classes of Dire Insurance, EDWARD PEARCE, Agent. ORTHERN FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY Capital f-5.000,000 Reserve Fund... ... ... 2,500,000 Risks accepted at Lowest Rates, GEO. H. SCALES. Agent, Custom Honse-qnay. N ANTED KNOWN—PETER’S LINE of COACHES leaves Palmerston for Woodville daily after arrival of mid-day train from Wellington. Travellers by this route 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 Manawain Gorge can at all times secure saddle horses, buggies, waggonettes, or special coaches by wiring to A. PETERS, Stone Bazaar, Woodville, or COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Palmerston. Twenty-five years’ experience on the road. 632