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Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3329, 29 May 1885, Page 1

Shipping. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. To Passengers desirous of Avoiding the Heat and Discomfort of the Red Sea. OVERLAND ROUTE TO GREAT BRITAIN, THROUGH AMERICA. Under Contract with New South Wales and New Zealand Governments. _-"~ls. 3^< Magnificent SteamjjetkA^x&S^, -»■ ships of this line will )Snaßjpial&t||k leave Auckland for San 4MEl2fflui?^ Francisco, calling at Honolulu every Fourth Tues* day, as under — Bteamer. Tons. Lyttelton. Auckland. Australia • 3500 June 20 June 23 Zealandia - 3200 July 18 July 21 City of Sydney - ' - 3500 Aug. 15 Aug. 18 Passengers are booked to San Francisco, or through to Great Britain and Europe with special advantages, and have at San Francisco choice of the unrivalled Atlantic Steamship Lines of the Cunard, Inman, White Star, or other Companies. Tickets are good until used, and allow passengers to stop off as long as they choose, to visit nil places of interest m America and Canada, t-top-over privilege is also allowed on steamers' tickets for Auckland and Honolulu. ■ Time cards, railway maps, and guide books, showing all routes to any point m the United States, may bo had on application. For Rates of Passage and Freight, and all other information, apply to GARDNER & PICKERING, Agents, lfil, Hereford street, 5-25 3142 Chriotflhiiroh. Insurance Companies. SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Paid-up Capital and Reserve— £244,ooo. EFFECTS FIRE and MARINE INSURANCES of Every Description at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. J. DRUMMOND MACTHERSON, Manager, Christchurch. Applications can be made to — Oambbok Bbos., Agents, Waimato Wm. Wills, Agent, Temuka and Winchester I. L. Mobbis, Agent, Pleasant Point 0. E. Shkbbatt, Agent, Geraldine Tayi-ob akd Flatmak, Agents, Waihi Bush $ And, JONAS & BOURN, 11-14 7343 A&BNTB, Timaru. THE NATIONAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA, LIMITED. Established Atjoitst 1869. The first Office m the World to Apply the SURRENDER VALUE OF POLICIES In Paying the Premiums, thereby preventing the Lapse of Policies until the Surrender Value is exhausted. Offico — New Zealand Lean and Mercantile Buildings, Timaru. KNUD SANDO, DISTRICT AGENT. 5-2 2884 ■ T IVERPOOL AND LONDON AND JU GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established m the Colonies 1853. Losses paid m the colonies ... £1,247,108 Colonially invested £250,000 The Largest Fire Insurance Company m the World. Fire Reserve Fund ... ... £1,500,000 LOCAL AGENTS IN CANTERBURY— TIMARU ... W. RUTHERFURD Waimate ... F. Slee Temuka ... C. J. Rayner Geraldine ... Alfred Fisher Fairlie Creek ... Morris & Gall Ashburton ... J. Ward & Son JAMES A. BIRD, Manager for Canterbury. 148, Cashel Street, Christchurch. " 2-13 2140 Commission Agents, it*c. T A. CUNNINGHAM, ESTATE AND FINANCIAL AGENT, NAPIER. PROPERTIES FOR SALE :— A NUMBER OF HIGHLY IMPROVED FARMS, m the Waipawa and Hawke's Bay Counties, Ranging from 100 Acres to 900 Acres each. Several Close to Town, and all near the Railway, WITH AND WITHOUT STOCK. 1870 ACRES FREEHOLD, a magnificent property, with substantial improvements 4600 ACJBES County of Wairoa, Superior Homestead, with every convenience for working the Station Sheep at Valuation. Also, CHE MATTNGATAUIWHA BLOCK, 36,140 ACRES FREEHOLD LAND. This magnificent country contains 8000 Acres of Bush, largely consisting of Totara, which from its position aud easy accessibility, will be extremely valuable THE OPEN COUNTRY— HiIIy, though not high, and at present covered with heavy fern, flax, koromiko, and other native plants, possessing, as it does, good river boundaries, and being intersected by numerouscreeks, is capable of easy improvement by burning and surface sowing, and will, by proper management, shortly carry a very heavy Btock of either sheep or cattle. To Capitalitts there is not a better or safer investment m New Zealand than this property affords, at the price demanded, and the opportunity of acquiring such is rapidly passing away. J. A. CUNNINGHAM, 4-25 2817 Browning street, Napier. T^M. RUTHERFURD, GRAIN, SHIPPING & CUSTOMS AGENT Agent for the Liverpool and London .ant Globe Inspranoe Company. Also for th< BelfoHt'Chemical Manure Works.; Office »t Butter's Buildings. ■'