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Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3235, 4 February 1879, Page 4

Insurance. ' A ESTEALIAN MUTUAL PEOVIIx DUNT SOCIETY. I Established in the Year 1849, - For Life Assurance on the Mutual Principle, L New Zealand Bkanoit : Invested Funds £2,300,000 Annual Income 550,000 > Amount Assured 12,000,000 Claims Paid 850,000 1 Policies in Force 31,000 , LiST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM. Sixth DivmbN of Profits. The whole of the profits are divided amongst the, assured, and bonuses to the amount of £910,000 have already been allotted. The last division of profits took place in 1874, and the cash surplus then divided amounted to , £235,000, giving additions to policies averaging £3 per cent, per annum on the sum assured. The bonuses paid on policies becoming claims have varied from £15 per cent, on the sum assured fo? a policy of five years' J standing to £150 per cent, for one of twentyi five years' duration. Bonuses become vested additions to policies when tliey have been full five years in force, ] The profits realised during the last five years will be ascertained and divided as at 31st December next, and all policies issued on or before that date will be entitled to participate in the profits of quinquennium, •<1 Prospectus, foris of proposal, and alt in- ' formation may be obtained from the Branch . Office, Wellington, or from any of the Society's agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, , Resident Secretary, D. E. GELLION, Aoest fob thb Thames. North brttish and meroanTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. r LONDON AND .EDINBURGH. f ESTABLISHED 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter, Subsokibsd Capital £2,000,000 PAiD-ur Capital £250,000 Fire Reserve Fond £'794,577 Fire Premium Reserve £302,671 Totai. Fire Reserves £1,097,248 Income op the Fire Department, Jta Premiums and Interest £967,080 Fire Risks taken on Buildings aud Property on Thames Goldfields at lowest Rates. Prompt and Liberal settlements, THOMASVEALE, Agent: POLLEN-STREET. \EW ZEALAND INSUBANOE COMPANY, FIRE AND MARINE. Capital £1,000,000 Paid-up Capital £200,000 EE-Insueanoe FUND £40,000 Unlimited Liability of Shareholders, HEAD OFFICE New Zeaund Insurance Buildings, AUCKLAND. Agent for Thames—E. HONKS, Pollen-st,, Shortland; and Albert-st., Grahamstown. Business Notices. , YNAM I T E DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, FUZE, Eto., ETO. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful xplosive in use. The Safety of Dynamite During Tbanspoet and Stoeage, Extracts from the Official evidence given before the House of Commons Select Committee on Explosive Substances—Parliamentary Session of 1874, London. Boxes filled with dynamite have been thrown from a great height and found to sustain any amount of shock without exploding, They have also been placed upon an open fire, when , he dynamite burned slowly away' without exploding.—Parliamentary report—Blue Book, page 179. Dynamite has been in a railway collision, and, though the van and boxes containing it were ■ broken, no explosion took place,—Blue Book, page 182, par. 2979. Major Majendie, R.A., H.M's. Inspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in his evidence (page 18, par. 100), that the law relating to dynamite is as much too stringent as the gunpowder law is too lax; and (page 20, par. 115) that the time has come for relieving safe nitro-glycerine preparations from such unaccessary restrictions as the]Nitro-glycerine Act imposes upon them. Professor Abel, the Chemist to Her Majesty's War Department, gives his experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest, most powerful, and most convenient explosive agents applicable to industrial purposes,—Blue ;Book, pages 56, 57, and 59, Agents: E. PORTER & O 0., QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND Supplies may be had of JAMES RENSBAW or STONE BROS,, Thames. TANGYE BROTHERS, Makers of the gPECIAL STEAM PUMP. E. PORTER & CO., Sole Agents for New Zealand. E. PORTEE & CO. Have in Stock the following Pumps Two 3-inch Steam Cylinder, Israeli water, with 12-inch Btroke, capacity 680 gallons 240 feet high per hour One 8-inch Steam Cylinder, 4-inch water, 12inch stroke, 3250 gallons 240 feet high per hour One 10-inch Steam Cylinder, 5-inch water, 18inch stroke (about) 8006 gallons 240 feet high per hour One 12-inoh Steam Cylinder, 6-inch water, 18inch stroke (about) 12,000 gallons 240 feet high per hour one 24-inch Steam Cylinder, 8-inch water, 48inch stroke, 13,000 gallons 400 feet high per hour. Extra Wearing Parts with the above. Tangye's Patent Antifriction Metal Is per lb ~ Hydraulic Punching Bears, will Bunch f-liole through |- , plate. „ Screw Jacks, six sizes „ Rope Blocks „ Self-sustaining Rope Blocks „ Snatch Blocks „ Hoisting Crabs One 6-inch Williams' Patent 3-cylinder Portable Engine, 10-horso power nominal, 20horse actual One 12-horse Tangye'b Patent Horizontal Engine. E. P. & Co, have in stock One Powerful Ver" tical Engine, made for a Saw Mill by Mr WVickery, similar to one in use by the Auckland i Timber Company in Auckland; also, One |3horse powerjVertical Engine and Boiler, Agents for Nobel's .Explosive]Comjpany's Dynamite.