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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8270, 17 September 1888, Page 2

Two engine axles have snepped whHßt on the tracks south of Dunedin lately. Referring to the New Zealand Insurance Company, the San Francisco Journal of Commerce sayß :— " Among the solid and substantial old favorites in the fire nnd marine insurance line, the ' New Zealand, ' located in tho company's buildings, No. 312 California-street, holds a prominent position. In its transactions, promptness, strict integrity and fair dealing has given it a steady onward movement in thejjgreat tido of business, and to-day its standing is at tho head and front, and its financial condition- a- marvel of strength and security. The last issued statement of the condition and affairs of the company moat have been set afloat upon the commercial wtrld by its officers with a degree ot pride and pleasure. The income oE the tbe office in tbis city, which is under the careful supervision of Mr. Hugh Craig, who is manager, alio 'of coast agencies, steadily grows in balk and volume, as careful business, manufacturers and owners of vessels' are quick to perceive a desirable company to accept their risks. Through this assurance of perfect security the fair and honorable methods of tbe company, together with the courteous treatment received at the hands of. tbe representatives of the New Zealand Company accounts for its marked and steady prosperity, and gives assurance of an indefinite continuation of theme much desired conditions. IE Australia may be called the land of mpi 1 fortune making, then New Zealand mny bo termed tho country of gigantic possibilities. For in this free and happy luid there are in existence three Acts, by the aiil of which, every man who can get a wife should be able to secure a competence and lay up treasures here below. One is fie Married Woman's Property Act, by which no woman can be sued for debt unless she is the possessor of a separate estate of the value of £1,000 at least; the other is tho Land Act, which enables a man to get a deferred payment section and then run into debt to an unlimited extent to improve it, while absolutely ptotecting it from the Bankruptcy Act, which furnishes the means for utilising the two other Acts fjr the benefit of anybody but tbe trading community. And yet some say our laws are not liberal enough I—Manawatu1 — Manawatu 2%mes.