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Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3236, 5 February 1879, Page 4

Insurance. A CSTEALIAN MUTUAL PBOVIDENT SOCIETY. Established in tee Year 1849. . For Life Assurance on the Mutual Principle. New Zealand, Branoh: Invested Funds £2,300,000 Annual Income 550.000 /mount Assured 12,000,000 Claims Paid 850,000 Policies in Force 31,000 LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM; Sixth Division of Profits, The whole of the profiis 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 be* co.-ning claims have vatied from £15 per cent, on tbe sum assured for a policy of five years' standing to £150 per cent, for one of twenty, five yearB 1 duration, Bonuses become vested additions to policies when they 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 poiioies issued on or before that date will be entitled to participate in the profits of quinquennium, Prospectus, forms of proposal, and all information may be obtained from the Branch office, Wellington, or from any of the Society's agents, EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary, d;r, gellion, Agent for thb Thames. NOBTH BHTTIBH AND ME ROANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. LONDON AND EDINBURGH, ESTABLISHED 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter. Subsoribud Capital £2,000,000 Paid-up Camtal £250,000 Fire Reserve Fund £794.577 Fire Premium Reserve £302,6?1 PoTAi Fire Reserves £1,097,248 Income op tub Fire Department, Ne! Premiums and Interest £967,080 Fire Risks taken on Buildings and Property m Thames Gold fields at lowest Rates. . Prompt and Liberal settlements. THOMASVEALE, Agent: POLLEN-STREET. ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY, PIRE AND MARINE. Capital £1,000,000 Paid-up Capital £200,000 He-Insurance Fund £40,000 Unlimited Liability of Shareholders. HEAD OFFICE Zeaund Insurance Buildings, AUCKLAND. Agent for Thames—E, HONISS, Pollen-st,, Shortland; and Albert-at., Grahamstown, Business Notices. YNAMITE )ETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED COPPER WIRE, FUZE, Etc., Etc. DYNAMITE is the Safest and Most Powerful xplosive in use. Che Safety of Dynamite During Tbanbpoet and Storage. Jxtracts from the Official evidence given before the House of Commons Select Committee on Explosive Substances—Parliamentary Fessioa of 1874, London, ' Boxes filled with dynamite have been thrown rom a great height and found to sustain any imount of shock without exploding. They lave also been placed upon an open fire, when he dynamite burned slowly away without exporting.—Parliamentary report—Blue Book, iage 179Dynamite has been in a railway collision, and, -hough the van and boxes containing it were iroken, no explosion took place.—Blue Bosk, iage 182, par. 2979. Major Majendie, R A,, H.M's. Inspector of Gunpowder and Dynamite Factories, states, in lis evidence (page 18, par 100), that the law elating to dynamite is as much too stringent is the gunpowder law is too lax; and (page 20, jar. 115) that the time has come for relieving isfe mtro-glycerine preparations from such unlecessary restrictions as the Nitro-glyceriae Act mposes UDon them Professor Abel, the Chemist to Her Majesty's <7ar Department, gives his experience that Nobel's dynamite is one of the safest, most towerful, and most convenient explosive agents ipplicable to industrial purposes,—Bine'Book, lages 56, 57, and 59, A cents :• E, PORTER & O 0., QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND Supplies may be had of JAMBtJ RENSBAW or STONE BROS., Thames. • TANGYE BROTHERS, Makers of the gPECIAL STEAM PUMP. E. PORTER & CO., Sole Agents for New lealand. E. PORTER & CO. Have in Stock the following Pumps i— fwo 3-inch Steam Cylinder, water, with 12-inch stroke, capacity 680 gallons 240 feet high per hour )ne 8 inch Steam Cylinder, 4-inch water, 12inch stroke, 3250 gallons 240 feet high per hour )ne 10-inch Steam Cylinder, 5-inch water, 18inch stroke (about) 800G gallons 240 feet high per hour )nc 12-inch Steam Cylinder, 6-inch water, 18inch stroke (about) 12,000 gallons 240 feet high per hour me 24-inch Steam Cylinder, 8-inch water, 48inch stroke, 13,000 gallons 400 feet high per hour. Extra Wearing Parts with the above, Pangye's Patent Antifriction Metal Is per lb it Hydraulic Punching Bears, will ounch jj-hole through fplate. u Screw Jacks, six sizes ~ Rope Blocks i. Self-sustaining Rope Blocks Snatch Blocks •i Hoisting Crabs )ne 6-inch Williams' Patent 3-cylinder Por« table Engine, 10-horso power nominal, 20horse actual )ne 12-horse Tangye's Patent Horizontal Engine. E, P. & Co. have in stock One Powerful Ver' ical Engine, made for a Saw Mill by Mr WPickery, similar to one in use by the Auckland Pimber Company in Auckland; also, OneJ3« torse powerJVertical Engine and Boiler. Agents for Nobel's pam'B Dynamite. 1