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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 9284, 2 May 1891, Page 1

Business Notices. BALL SEASON AT THOH.WBOBT SCOITISE. MAY 1. AND AFTER TO DAY 'WE WILL SHOW ODR ELEGANT STOCK OP BALL COSTUMES Fresh from the Leading Centres of Fashion. ALSO, Every Requisite for Evening Toilette, Including the Newest Detigna in Evening Wraps and Opera Hoods, Dress Caps, aud ail Colours in Opera Feather Boas, Evening Dress Corsets, etc. A New Stock of Chiffon Bows and Plastrons in all Colours. DRESS NETS In Velvet and Wove Spots, Black White, Cream, Pink, Coral, Sky, Nile, and Heliotrope, 9Jd, Is Bd, 2a 6d, to 5s per yard. WARNOCK, KELLY, & ADKIN.

Public Companies. National insurance company OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital (full subscribed) ... £2,000,000 Paid-up and reserves upward 0f... 2C9,000 Losses paid in 14 years ... ... 1,148,984 Distinctive Features. Undoubted Security. Lowest Current Rates of Premium. Prompt and Liberal Settlement of Claims. Offices; Featherstonstreet, Wellington. ANDREW CAMPBELL, 819 Manager. VICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited). Established 1849 ; Reconstructed 1879. Capital ... ... .. £1,000,000. Every description of Fire, Marine, and Fidelity Guarantee Risks edeoted 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, Customhouse-quay, Wellington. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY, Established 1836. | Invested Funds... ... £7,521,949 ! Claims Paid .... ... £20,316,928 Fire Reserve Fund ... £1,850,000 | THIS Company offers to Insureis the security of invested funds amounting to over SEVEN MILLION POUNDS STEELIN3, BESIDES THE UNLIMITED LIA. BILITY OF A VERY WEALTHY PROPEIETARY. 1 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 over been noted for Its promptitude and liberality in settling olalms. Lowest current rates for all classes of Fire Insurance. LEVIN & CO., Agents. Australian mutual provi DENT SOCIETY. Established ... 1849. The Oldest Mutual Life Office in Australis. New Zealand Branch : Head Office, Custom-house Quay, Wellington, Local Board of Directors : The Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D., C.M.G., M.L.O. (Chairman). The Hon. Charles J. Johnston, M.L.O. (Deputy-Chairman) Alfred de Bathe Brandon, Esq. The Hon. Edward Richardson, O.M.G. Nicholas Reid, Esq. Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemp, M.E.C.S. (England). Assure your life in the AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, and secure an ANNUAL BONUSorDIVIDEND, a Privilege which no other Coloniai. Live 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 attention of the Members and the leneral Public is called to some of the special features connected with this Society, which is the oldest Colonial Institution of - its kind, having been established in the year 1849.

Ihe results of the business for the Forty* first Year, ending 31st December, 1889, may be summarised as uuier : First.—The number of the New Policies issued was 11,664. Second. —The new Assurance business effected was for £3,679,459. Third. —The New Annual Premium In* come amounted to £121,800. Fourth.—The net increase to the business, after allowing for loss of income from terminated Policies, was represented by 7028 Policies, assuring £2,109,199. Fifth.—The operations of the year raised the annual income of the Society from £1,512,280 to £1,625,185, an increase in twelve months of £112,905. Sixth.—The Accumulated Fund was Increased during the year by the sum of £742,311, equal to 71 per cent, of the gross nremiums received. Seventh.—The deaths among lives assured were 649 under 735 policies, causing claims upon the Society amounting to £299,602, rreapeotivo of Bonus additions, while the number expected according to the Tables need in estimating the liabilities would have been 1143, for an amount of £438,976, the mortality experience being thus extremely favourable. Eighth.—'The receipts from interest and rents were £516,832, an amount exceeding the sum paid for the claims by £138,952. Ninth.—The expenses of Management were only 9.5 per cent, of the total receipts. Tenth. -The cash surplus divided for the year 1889 was £426,494, being at the rate of 41*5 per cent, on tne premiums received. The operations of the Society during the •11 years of its existence may be summarised as under— It has issued 141,907 policies, assuring £49,417,717. It has paid to the representatives of de* ceased members over £4,000,000 in satisfao* j tion of death and matured claims. j It has divided among the members cash I bonuses aggregating over £4,000j000, yielding reversionary additions of over £8,000,000. It has acquired an Accumulated Fund of £9,000,000, all invested to yield fully 6 per cent, interest. Assets ia New Zealand—£l,273,sl4. EDWAKD W. LOWE. Resident Secretary, Branch Office— Customhouse quay, Wellington. H ED FUNNEL TEA I. all the rage, and defies competition. It Is grown by BRITISHERS. PLAIN and Ornamental Signwriting, Notice Boards, Tickets, Sale Boards, Wire Blinds, Fancy Window Screens, Glass Embossing, well and cheaply done. Estimates given to* the above work at R. Martin’s.