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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9866, 24 March 1893, Page 1

Business Notices. WARNOCK, KELLY WARNOCK, KELLY AND ADKIS’S AND ADKIN’S EARLIEST EXHIBITION OF AUTUMN AND WINTER FASHIONS AT THORNDON HOUSE. DEESS MATERIALS. THE growth of oar Dress Department year by year compels ns to increase onr Imports, and this season we hold a much larger Stock than nsnal; while the styles and variety of materials are such as to meet the requirements of all. We note drat— Repps, Bengalines, and Cords. Repps and Corded Materials generally are very prominent, and probably take the lead as the greatest novelties o( the season. We show them in the plain, inexpensive self colours, the handsome brooaded Repps, and the positively gorgeous Wool Brocatelles ehot with brilliant colours in silk. Brocaded and Matalasse Dress Materials. These Goads have all the appearance of silk broohd, bat are simply Fare Wool of the finest. We show seven Urge ranges of Brocades and Matalasee, including most exquisite colours. Prices from 16a 6d to 33s the costume length. Wo also ehow a very large variety of Blacks in these goods. Tweed Serges and Cheviots. ,We have gone very etrongly into Tweeds this season. Prices range from 9s to 40s the robe length, and the variety ie beyond description. Of Merges we could not say too much, hut space compels us to merely quote prices—Pure Wool best Eatamene Serges, 42 inches wide, Ts lid, 2s 3d, 2s 9d, 3s 3d, 4s fid, 5b 3d per yard. Of Cheviots we have nine different qualities In pure wool, all colours, running from 11s fid the dress to 23s fid the dress. This latter is our beet, of which we have 13 designs in Navy alone, besides other colours. Engagement of New Dressmaker. We have secured the services of Mrs Snook, whose reputation as a scientific Dressmaker is quite established already in Wellington ; and at the commencement of the season we again remind onr customers and the public that we have two large Dressmaking Concorns at Thorndon House, employing nearly 50 assistant dressmakers. Orders ate solicited early In tho season. Estimates for a Dress Made to Order Are ticketed on all classes of Dress Goods in our Central Window. WARNOCK, KELLY & ADKTTSi.

Public Oomuaulea. YJ-mm pSURAKCE COMPANY. CAPITA* £1,000.0C0 THE PREMIER COLONIAL OFFICE. Fire and Marine Rieka accepted at lowest current rates. Settlements prompt. Being a purely Colonial Institution, the Inode and profits of this Company are invested In the Colony. Wellington BranchCorner Grey street and Lambton quay. NICHOLAS LAWSON, 31 Manager. gTANDARD jpiRE AND j^ARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. WELLINGTON BRANCH. Capital (fnliy subscribed) ... £1,000,000 With Unlimited Liability o( Shareholders, FlßE—lnsoranoes effected on all descrlp. tlons of Property at lowest current rates. MARINE —Wool and other Interests insured from sheep's back or woolshed to London. GUARANTEE—FideIity of potions In situations of trnst guaranteed. WILLIAM EVANS, MANAGER, Offices : Customhouse quay. 381 COMMERCIAL [JHION ASSURANCE COMPANY (Limited). Capital £2,600,000 Annual Net Income ... £1,400,000 Claims paid to date ... £13,000,000 General Manager for N.Z., F. ALLEN, J.F. All Fire and Marine Bisks accepted at Lowest Current Kates, - Claims met Promptly and Fairly. GEO. H. HARBROS, Manager, Wellington Branch. Offices : Lambton quay and Gbby street. LONDON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE CO. Pald-np Capital ... £212.760 Reserve Funds 814,100 Reserve Capital at call of the Directors 1,914.750 Total security t« Policyholders...£2,94l,6oo Head Office: Liverpool. INSURANCE against loss by fire on every description of property effected at lowest current rates. JOHNSTON & CO,, 549 Agents, LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY, Established 1836. J Invested Funds... ... £7,621,949 Claims Paid _ ... £20,316,928 Fire Reserve Fund ... £1,850,000 THIS Company offers to insurers the security of tnvested funds amounting to over SEVEN MILLION POUNDS STEELING, BESIDES THE UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF A VERY WEALTHY PROPRIETARY. BY A SPECIAL ACT OF THE NEW ZEALAND LEGISLATURE, THE COM. PANY IS IN A POSITION TO SUE OB BE SUED IN THIS COLONY. This Company boa ever been noted for its promptitude and liberality In settling claims. Lowest current rates for all classes of Fire Insurance. LEVIN & CO., Agents. National insurance company OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital (full subscribed) ... £2,000,000 Paid-np and reserves Losses paid in 18 years ... ... 1,606,197 Distinctive Features. Undoubted Security. Lowest Current Bates of Prsminm. Prompt and Libera) Settlement of Claims. Offices; George Thomas and Co.’s new buildings, corner of Customhonse gray and Hunter street. ANDREW CAMPBELL, 819 Manager. OUE EYESIGHT. |S. K 0 u N ' OPTICIAN, LAMBTON QUAY. HAS just completed and furnished with every requisite a SIGHT-TESTING ROOM, tba moat complete of its kind in tbs Colony, and which is especially adapted for accurately testing all kinds of imperfect vision, Mr KOHN has been appointed Sole Agent ' for Wellington District for N. Lazarus and Co., Ophthalmic Opticians, London, Calcntta, Melbonree and Sydney, and has been thoroughly instructed in the Patent Sight ■ testing System, No. 4364, which is now being universally adopted. The above firm having just opened a Wholesale and Leno Grinding Branob in Wellington, Mr KOHN ia now prepared to make up the most complicated Lenses from oculists' prescriptions in a few days. PEARL AND DIAMOND BANGLES, BROOCHES, NECKLETS, RINGS, WATCHES, CLOCKS, ELECTRO-PLATED and SILVERWARE I Of Every Description, And all the Latest Jewellery Novelties of the Season by every Direct Mail. s. k'o'hn, WATCHMAKER, JEWELLEE, AND OPTICIAN. Lambton qnay. 286 £JAMEBON & CHEISTIB. Pjsb N, B. Moeeis— AMERICAN STOVES, for Coal and Wood.