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Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2798, 11 September 1883, Page 1

Shipping. SHORTEST AND MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO GREAT BRITAIN AND EUROPE. THROUGH AMERICA VIA SANDWICH ISLANDS. — ' k ~\ T\ 'HE Pacific Mail SteamJ^xll^^K^.- I ship Company (under jSrcljfeiaSJgii. Contract with the New *WlwMsi^J Zealand and New South T3fi*jJPffllfiggS» Wales Governments), ■will Despatch the undermentioned Steamers as follows :— . ___ Steamer, j Tons. I Lyttelton. ; Auckland. | | ! City of Svd- i j j nev- .' - ' 3500 Oct. 6; Oct. 9 Australia - 3200 1 Nor. 3 j Nov. 6 City of New I ' York - - 3500 j Deo. 1 Dec. 4 Zealandia - 3200! Dec. 29 Jan. 1 Passengers booked to London, Liverpool or Paris at a through Rate, thus securing Special Advantages. For Rates of Freight and Passage, and for full information, apply to WILSON, SAWTELL & CO., 3-6 1659 Agents, Christchurch. Insurance Companies UNION FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. HEAD OFFICE: CHRISTCHURCH. Capital Subscribed ... £2,000,000 Capital Paid up ... 100,000 Rebbeve Fund ... 50,000 WE have been APPOINTED AGENT 3 for the above-named Company for Timaru and surrounding districts, and are now Prepared to Accept Fire and Marine Riskß at Lowest Current Rates. THE NEW ZEALAND GRAIN AGENCY AND MERCANTILE COMPANY (Ld.), JOHN HOUGHTON, Agent. Ist April, 1883. 4-6 4913 A USTRALIAN MERCANTILE UNION A. INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. Fire Insurance effected upon almost every description of Property at Lowest Rates. Agricultural Risks— Growing Crops, Stacks Barns, Implements, Threshing Machines. &o on most faTorable terms. SPECIAL NOTICE. A Discount of 12i per cent off late tariff rates allowed upon all risks within 100 feet of water supply," and a further Discount upon that of 20 per cent. All Claims Promptly and Liberally Settled upon the spot. CHARLES BOWKER, 10-30 2950 Agent for South Canterbury. THE EQUITABLE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND. Head Office : Bond and Rattray streets, Dunedin, Board of Directors : E. B. Cargill, Esq., Chairman. James Hazlet, Esq. A. Scoullar, Esq. James Hogg, Esq. W. Gregg, Esq. F. Meenan, Esq. H. Guthxie, Esq. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCES OP BVEBY DESCRIPTION AT LOWEST RxVTES. WOOLLCOMBE & CLULEE, Chief Agents, South Canterbury. 1-13 3918 CJOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMO PANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital £2,000,000 This Company Insures against Firo at Lowest Current Rates Buildings, Furniture Goods and Merchandise. Also, Grain m Crop or while Stacked and during Threshing. Also, Engines and Threshing Machines. MARINE INSURANCE Effected on Hulls, Freights or Merchandise to or from the United Kingdom, or InterC ° T^RUMMOND MACPHERSON, Manager, Cliristchurch. Applications can be made to — Cameron Bros., Agentß, Waimate W. Wills, Agent, Temuka I. L. Morris, Agent, Pleasant Point C. E. Shebratt, Agent, Geraldine Tatlob & Flatmak, Agents, Waihi Bush. AND R. WLLKIN & CO., 3-14 4633 Agents, Timaru, THE LONDON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Paid-up Capital ... '... ■■• *JBf.*°° Reserve Fund (excluding capital) !^is Capital at call of Directors . . . 1,666,800 Risks taken at Lowest Current Rates. Prompt Settlement of Claims. W. DAVIDSON, 6-19 5712 A E cpt - Land Brokers LAND TRANSFER OFFICE. D. M. ROSS, W. M. SIMS, Writer, Notary Practical Accountant, Public, Insurance Agent, And Arbitrator. and Valuer. Sworn Valuators by warrant of appointment under the hand of His Excellency the XTOSS, SIMS AND CO., Jtii Licensed Land, Estate, and Money Bbokbrs. Office of the Timaru Building Society, Victoria Insurance Co. (Limited) and Mutual Life Association of Australasia. Transferß.Leases.Mortgageß.Encumbrances, Powers of Attorney, Declarations and Titles to Land prepared cheaply and promptly. Money Invested. Estates Managed. Insurances Effected. Loans Negotiated. ADVICE FREE.. ALL LETTERS or CORRESPONDENCE intended for the EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT of this paper, ought to be ADDRESSED to the EDITOR. ADVERTISEMENTS, ORDERS FOR PRINTING, and all business matters relating to the office, together with cheques, &c, to be ADDRESSED to the MANAGER. It is particularly requested that NO LETTERS be directed, cither to the Proprietors or any member of the staff of this office, PRIVATELY, if the communications are not of a private nature, as delays are sometimes occasioned by »o doing.