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Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3237, 6 February 1879, Page 4

Insurance. A DSTRALIAN mutual peoviA mm society. i Established in the Yeae 1849. • For Life Assurance on the Mutual Principle. New Zealand Branch: Invested Funds £2,300,000 Annual Income 550,000 p Amount Assured 12,000,000 Claims Paid 850.000 1 Policies in Force 31,000 , L\5T YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM.' Sixth Division of Profits. The whole of the profits are divided amongst tbe. 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 tben 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 vaiied from £15 per cent, on the sum assured for a policy of five years' ' standing to £150 per cent, for one of twentyJ five years' duration. Bonuses become vested additions to policies when they have been full fiye years in force, j 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. Prospectus, forms of proposal, and all in- • formation may be obtained from the Branch \ Office, Wellington, or from any of the Society's agents, EDWARD W. LOWE, j Resident Secretary. D. R. GELLION, AOENT FOR THE THAMES. , VTOBTH BKTTIBH AND MIBCAN. [ Ll TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. ' LONDON AND EDINBURGH, ESTABLISHED 1809. ' Incorporated by Royal Charter. Subsoribbd Capital £2,000,000 Oamtaii £250,000 Fire Reserve Fond £794,577 Fire Premium Reserve £302,671 5 Total Fire Reserves £1,097,248 . Income of the Fire Department, t Nec Pbemicms and Interest £967,080 r Fire Risks taken on Buildings and Property ; on Thames Goldfields at lowest Rateu. , Prompt and Liberal settlements, ; THOMASYEALE, Agent: ) POIXEN-BTBEET. I ZEALAND INSUEANOE COMPANY, . . PIRE AND MARINE. Capitai £1,000,000 Paid-up Capitai £200,000 Re-Instjbanoe Fund £40,000 , Unlimited Liability of Shareholders, ! head office > New Zbaund Insubanob Buildings, auckland. i Agent for Thames-E, HONISS, Pollen-nt., f Shortland; and Albert-st,, Grahamstown. i Business' Noticed T\ Y N' A ; MI T E DETONATORS, BATTERY, INSULATED '. COPPER WIRE, FUZE, Eto„ Etc, ; , DYNAMITE is the Safest aud Most Powerful , xplosive in use. I The Safety of Dynamite Dubin'g i Tbanspobt and Stobage. Extracts from the Official evidence given before tho 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 npon an open fire, when .. he dynamite burned slowly away without exi ploding.—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 1 relating to dynamite is as'much too 1 stringent as the gunpowder law is too lax; and (page 20, par. "115) that the time has come for relieving [ safenitro-glycerinepreparations from such un. accessary restrictions as the,Nitro-glycerine Act 1 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, iGEHTS: i E. POR TE R & C 0., \ QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND [ Supplies may he had of ■ JAMES BENSHAW or STONE BROS,, Thames. 1 TANGYE BROTHERS, Makers of the . SPECIAL STEAM PUMP. E. PORTER & 00,, Sole Agents for New Zealand. E. PORTER & CO. Have in Stock the following Pumps :— r Two 3-inch Steam Cylinder, 14-inch water, with 12-inch stroke, capacity 680 gallons 240 feet 1 high per hour ! One B'inch Steam Cylinder, 4-inch water, 12inch stroke, 3250 gallons .240 feet high per 1 hour One 10-inch Steam Cylinder, 5-inch water, 18inch Btroke (about) 8006 gallons 240 feet high per hour One 12-inch 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 1 hour. Extra Wearing Parts with' the above. Tangye's Patent Antifriction Metal Is per lb i, Hydraulic Punching Bears, will uunch |-hole through fplate. [ I, Screw Jacks, six sizes „ Rope Blocks „ Self-sustaining Rope Blocks 1 „ Snatch Blocks „ Hoisting Crabs One 6-inch Williams' Patent 3-cylinder Portable Engine, 10-horse power nominal, 20horse actual j One 12-horse Tangye's Patent Horizontal Engine. E. P. & Co. have in stock One Powerful Vertical Engine, made for a Saw Mill by Mr W? Vickery, similar to one in use by the Auckland 1 Timber Company in Auckland; also, One J3horse powerjVertical Engine and Boiler. Agents for Nobei's BxpiosivblCompany's Dynamise.