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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 9107, 2 October 1890, Page 1

Business Notices. WARNOCK, KELLY, & ADKIN, IMPORTERS OF THE BEST CLASS OF DRAPERY. LADIES’ SFKIHQ AND SUMMER FASHION CIRCULAR. DURING the past five weeks Warnook, Kelly, and Adkin have been landing GOODS IN VAST QUANTITIES for Spring and Summer Wear" LATEST CONSIGN. MENTS, 40 CASES, NOW OPENING UP. MOST FASCINATING MILLINERY, as displayed in the north window, is daily attracting crowds. This show is renewed as each fresh lot arrives. Six large cases of Hats and Bonnets are now ready for Ist of October Exhibition. MANTELS AND JACEETS~IN ELEGANT AND NOYEL STYLES Are aelectod from leading London Houses by their Agents. NEW SILK WATER PEOOFSANDDUSTCLOAKS, &c., &c. To secure an UNPARALLELED CHOICE OF DRESS MATERIALS no lea# than 5 British and French Houses have been bought from. The result is Warnock, Kelly, and Adkin, according to general opinion, have the cheapest, moat varied, handsomest ranges of Dress Goods ever shown in Wellington. Specimens of these ate in the centre window. THE DRESSMAKING 7 ARRANGEMENTS. WARNOCK, KELLY, AND ADKIN beg respectfully to remind the great number of Ladies requiring dresses at this season that they have TWO LARGE DRESSMAKING CONCERNS ON THE PREMISES Quite distinct from each other. Under the charge of TWO MOST SUCCESSFUL HEAD DRESSMAKERS. With reference to this Branch of THORNDON HOUSE it should be thoroughly understood that in dressmaking, which is simply « part of the machinery of the business, a convenience to customers, and a meaus for facilitating trade. NO PROFIT IS LOOKED FOR. Warnook, Kelly, and Adkin are quite prepared to turn out costumes to order BELOW THE ACTUAL COST OF MAKING. Other Depart, menta not mentioned in this circular ata fully stocked with novelties for the coming season. WARNOCK, KELLY AND ADKIN, ' THORNDON HOUSE.

Insurance Comnanies National insurance company OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. y Capital (tall subscribed) ... £2,000,000 Paid-up and reserves upward 0f... 269,000 Losses paid in 14years ... ... 1,148,984 Distinctive Features. Undoubted Seourily. Lowest Current Rates of Premium. Prompt and Liberal Settlement of Claims. Offices: Featherstoustreet, Wellington. ANDREW CAMPBELL, 819 Manager. XCTORIA 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. 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, Customhonse.qnay, Wellington. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY, Established 1836. Invested Funds £7,621,949 Claims Paid .... ... £20,316,928 Fite Reserve Fund ... £1,830,000 rspHIS Company offers to insurers the JL security of invested funds amounting to over SEVEN MILLION POUNDS STERLING, BESIDES THE UNLIMITED LIABILXTY OF A VERY WEALTHY PROPRIETARY. BY A SPECIAL ACT. OF THE NEW ZEALAND LEGISLATURE, THE COM. PANY 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. LEVIN & CO., Agents. USTRALXAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. Established ... 1849. The Oldest Mutual Life Office in Australia. New Zealand Branch : Head Office, Custom-honse Quay, Welling, ton. Local Board of Directors : The Hon. Morgan S. Grace, C.M.G., M.D., M.L.C. (Chairman), Charles J. Johnston, Esq. (Deputy-Chair-man) Alfred de Bathe Brandon, Esq. The Hon. Edward Richardson, C.M.G., M.HR. Nicholas Reid, Esq. Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemp, M.R.C.S. (England), Annual Division of Pkofit. —The profits of the society are divided nnnnally. Result of Forty Fikst Year (1889). After making unusaally ample reserves, the Cash Surplus was £426,494, 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 ...£9,000,000, The Annual Income is upwards of £1,625,000 The Society has more than 94,098 Policies in force, assuring upwards of (excluding Bonuses) £32,800,000 During the last 41 years, the Society has paid for Claims and Matured Endowments more than ... ... ... £4,039,000 The Society has divided among its memhers Cash Bonuses amounting to upwards of £4,050,000, yielding Reversionary Boqpscs exceeding £8,000,000, New Business. The new business of the last five years has exceeded on an average £3,000,000 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 9.5 per cent, of the total re. oeipts of the year. This rate of expenditure is less than any other Life Assurance Inatltuition either in Europe or America, doing a corresponding amount of new bneiness. Unparellklbd Accumulation of Funds. The Accumulated Funds now amount to £9,000,000. Assure your life in the AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, and secure an ANNUAL BONUSor DIVIDEND. A Privilege which no other Colonial Life Office can grant its Members, Be careful that yon 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 aa much a New Zealand aa an Australian inati. tntion, seeing that all moneys received in the colony are invested here in advance on mortgage on first-class freehold securities, loans to members on the security of their policies. Government debentures, and free* hold branch office ptemises ; and the Society la thus assisting in developing the resources of the colony. THE SOCIETY HAS ASSETS IN NEW ZEALAND SECURITIES Amounting to £1,273,6141 No other Lite Office in the Colony can sivo yon 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 rednoe the cost of assurance to the lowest possible minimum. If yon are already sufficiently assured yourself, induce yonr friends to follow your example. N.B, —The security afforded by this 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 £10,060. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal, and the last Annual 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, Resident Secretary.

CITY WOOD AND COAL YARD. T> DUIGNAN having erected machinery can enpply Firewood—Kata, Matai, &c., very dry, oat to any lengths. He i« in a position to sell coals at lowest possible rates. Ha has the clear burning Coalbkookdale Co AL fclwayG on band, also best Newcastle Coal; and can supply charcoal in any quantity from the very best burners. RICHARD DUIGNAN, Mulesworth street! Telephone 334. 353 ROOMS EEPAPERED, Hooses Painted, Estimates Given, beat Materials used, B. Martin.!,