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Otago Witness, Issue 685, 14 January 1865, Page 13

Public Companies. •pOYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND LIFE. Capital Two Millions Stkrling. The well-icnown stability and liberality of this Company offer unusual advantages to Insurers. The confidence which the Company enjoys is shown Ly the fact, that their Fire Premiums last year exceeded Three Hundred Thousand Pounds sterling. We are now prepared to effect insurances at current rates. Losses settled here promptly, without the delay incidental to a reference to Australia or to Europe. Medical Referee— Dr. Hockbn. 31 ORISON, LAW & CO., Agents, Dunedin and Invercargill. XI JEW ZEALAND FIRE AND MARINE JM I.nJkURANCE COMPANY. Capital £250,000. Dunedin Office: Telegraph Chambers, Stafford Street. FIRE Insurances may be effected in this Office upon Farm Buildings and Stock, Mills, Breweries, etc.; Dwelling-houses, Warehouses, Shops, Stock-in-trade, etc., etc. MARINE: This Office insures Wool and Gold to England^ at London rates ; also, takes risks either on Ships or Goods for voyage or time at current rates or coasting or foreign 'vovnerps. E. CHALMER, A {rent. Telegraph Chambers, Stafford street. Volunteer Meeting 1 . EAST TAIERI RIFLE 'VOLUNTEERS. A GENERAL MUSTER of this Corps will take place at the East Taieri Pchoolhouse, on Tuesday first, the 17th January, at half-past 6 p.m.— For the transaction of important business. By order, ROBERT STEVENSON, Hon. Sec. Business Ho&ce*. TPkALRYMPLE JUNR., & CO., XJ FORWARDING & GENERAL SHIPPING AGENTS. Dunedin. Merchandise, parcels, passpngers, luggage, &c, forwarded per Mail and quickest route to every part of Otago and Southland, to all the Provinces and Colonies, Great Britain and Europe. T>ARK & CURLE, Wholesale and Retail Ironmongers & Metal Merchants, Plumbers, Tinsmiths, Zinc-Workers, Gasfitters, And Braziers^ Princes-street and Moray-place, Dunedin.

For Sale. EXHIBITION STORE, T7OR SALE, on the Road to Waipori. A good _5? opening tor a young couple is here offered, who have a small capital. It is situated on the Main Road to the Waipori, Tuapeka, and Post Office Creek Diggings. Apply on the Premises; or to Mr Griffiths,' Australasian Hotel, Dunedin.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE Mails Close. For Northern Provinces of New Zealand, per s.s. Phcebe, This Day, at 4 30 p m. For Registered Letters, Money Orders, and \ Newspapers, at 3.30 p.m. Per S.S. Albion, on "Wednesday, 18th instant, as under : — For Ceylon, India, Penan?, Singapore, Batavia, Manilla, China, Aden, Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, Suez, Alexandria, the Continent of Europe, via Trieste and America, at 12 noon. For Western Australia, South Australia, New South "Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania, at 1 p.m. For France and the Continent of Europe, via France, at 1 p.m. For Great Britain, via Southampton, at 1 p.m. Tor Great Britain, via Marseilles, Victoria, Campbell town and Invercargill, at 1.30 p.m. For Newspapers, at 11.30 a.m. For Registered Letters, at 11.30 a.m. Money orders, for transmission by the above mails may be procured till 11.30 a.m. Late letters for Great Britain and Australia may lie ported till 1.40 p.m., and will afterwards he received by the mail a;ent in the cabin of the s.s. Bruce up to the time' of sailing ; such letters to bear a late fee of Is (one shilling), in addition to the postage— the whole to be affixed in postage stamps. ARCH. BARR, Chiei Postmaster, Chief Post-office, Dunedin, 14th January, 1865.