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Southern Cross, Volume 8, Issue 18, 4 August 1900, Page 7

GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. Established 1870. EVERY POLICY GUARANTEED BY THE STATE. For the following amongst many reasons ( New-Zealanders should suiffiort their national office;— 1. Its Security is absolute. 2. Its Premiums are low. ' 3. Its Bonuses are high. 4. Its Funds are all invested in the colony. 5. Its business is restricted to New Zealand, the HEALTHIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. New-Zcalanclers who insure in offices which obtain the bulk of their business from the Old World and the other colonies (including Western Australia and Fiji) have to pay for the LOSS ARISING FROM THE HEAVIER MORTALITY OF THOSE COUNTRIES. The death-rate in New Zealand was under 10 per thousand in 1898, while in the other colonies it ranged from 121 per thousand in New South Wales to 16 per thousand in Western Australia. Accumulated Funds at present date amount to over THREE MILLION POUNDS. ANNUAL INCOME, over £400,000. J. H. RICHARDSON, • Commissioner. IHE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO.’S ROYAL MAIL LINE OB STEAMERS Will be despatched for LONDON as under via Monte Video, Teneriffe, and Plymouth * Twin screw. Best Accommodation for all classes of Passengers at lowest Rates. Coastal Passage to port of deparluae FREE Warrants issued for passages from the United Kingdom Round the World (first-class) through Canada or United States, returning by N.Z.S. Co,, or vice versa, £135 For further particulars apply to ROBERT DUNLOP, Local Manager, Invercargill and Bluff NION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LTD. Approximate Sailing Da/t©s FOR MELBOURNE DIRECT. Waikare —Friday, 10th August... 3.3o train For SYDNEY, via DUNEDIN, LYTTELTON, AND WELLINGTON. FOR SYDNEY DIRECT Wanaka —About Saturday, -Ith August. (Cargo only) • FOR AUCKLAND via OAMARU AND TIMARU. FOR GREYMOUTH via DUNEDIN, OAMARU, TIMARU, LYTTELTON, WELLINGTON & NAPIER. FOE SAN FRANCISCO via HONOLULU FROM AUCKLAND. Mariposa —6th August. FOR DONDON, via Adelaide, Albany Columbo, Suez Canal, Naples, Marseilles, and Gibraltar from Melbourne. AGENTS FOR ORIENT LINE OF STEAMERS TO LONDON, AND OCEANIC S.S. CO. TO SAN FRANCISCO THE A. AND A. ROUTE. Passengers booked for Western Australia at lowest current rates. For particulars apply to UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY OP NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED), The Crescent, Invercargill. New and Original Designs. Fancy and Artistic Cards a Specialty. ■John Ward & Co.