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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3964, 22 June 1887, Page 1

Commission Agents, <£c. J. WILSON SMITH AND SON. ACCOUNTANTS & GENERAL AGENTS. SHIPPING, Customs and Forwarding Agents. Money to lend on approved Freehold Securities. Town and Country Properties for Sale. TRADESMEN'S BOOKS KEPT. N.Z. LOAN & MERCANTILE CO.'S BUILDINGS, TIMARU. Insurance Companies. "TTICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY V [Limited], Established 1849. Reconstructed 1879. Capital £1,000,000. Every description of FIRE, MARINE AND FIDELITY GUARANTEE RISKS Effected at LOWKST RATES. ROSS, SIMS & CO. Agents for Timaru. THE NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. Head Office — Norwich, England. Established 1797. Amount insured £200,000,000 Losses paid ... ... ... 4,500,000 CLAIMS SETTLED WITH LIBERALITY AND PROMPTITUDE. HAVING been appointed AGENT for Timaru and District for the above Company, I am now prepared t» accept RISKS at LOWEST CURRENT RATES of premium. WALTER F. POTTS, 11-18 2642 Beswick street, Timaru. SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Paid-up Capital and Reserve— £244,ooo. EFFECTS FIRE and Mi BINE INSURANCES of Every Description at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. C. P. STRINGER, Acting Manager, Christchurch. Applications can be made to — Oambbon Bbos., Agents, Waimate Wh. Wills, Agent, Temuka and Winchester I. L. Mobbib, Agent, Pleasant Point H. and A. Bruob, Agents, St. Andrews H. N. Hiskens, Agent, Geraldine. And, CANTERBURY FARMERS' CO-OPERA-TIVE ASSOCIATION, 11-14 7843 AoiNT, Timaru. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES. Assets £15,730,000 Surplus, 4 per cent valuation £3,395,000 Surplus, 4i do do £4,250,000 New Business, 1886 ... £23,230,000 A FEW REASONS FOR ASSURING WITH THIS SOCIETY. 1. PROSPECTIVE ADVANTAGES. During tho past twenty-Bix years of its hißtory it has written £21,800,000 more of assurance than any other Company during the same period. 2. SAFETY. Its surplus is larger than any other Life Assurance Company. 3. PROMPT PAYMENT. In promptitude m payment ia unrivalled. Paid neablt £19,000,000. 3. RKSULTS. No other Society is paying on its policies as large profits as are shown under the Equitable's Matured Fifteen Years' Tontine Policies. Further particulars on application to any agent, or W. B. CRAIG. DIBECTOBS (With power to issue Policies and Pay Claims) .- Sir Fbedebick Whitakeb, K.C.M.G., M.L.O. Hon. James Williamson, M.L.C. Dr. Logan Campbell. Business Notices. iyr rs milton HAS REMOVED TO PREMISES Opposite Bowker's Store, Main Bouth Road. DRESSMAKING AT MODERATE CHARGES. Apprentices Wanted. Young Ladies Taught Cutting and Fitting Two Days a Week. 4-14 4114 WALLACE IMPLEMENT WORKS, CORNER OF EDWARD STREET AND MAIN SOUTH ROAD, TIMARU. D. STURROCK, T7INGIVEER, MILLWRIGHT, BLACK. Hi SMITH, WHEELWHIGHT, &c. All kinds of Agricultural and Milling Machinery Made and Repaired. CASTINGS IN IRON OR BRASS SUPPLIED. Ornamental Gates and Railings made to Order. JOHN JACKSON, TIMBER AND COAL MERCHANT AND SAWMILLER, Great South Road, HAS ON HAND and FOR SALE at the LOWEST RATES every Description of BUILDING MATERIALS, comprising Kauri Flitches (assorted sizes), Kauri (rough and dressed timber), Skirting 3, Architraves, Mouldings, Floorings and Lining (thoroughly seasoned — kept under cover, ready for immediate use), Red and White Pine, Totara, B luck Pine, Baltic Deals, White Pine Flooring, lining and shelving (thoroughly seasoned), V.D.L. Timber and Palings, Plasterers' Laths and Hair, Cement (best brands.) Doors and Saehes made on tho Premises. Also, — BEST NEWCASTLE and WitStPORT COALS. Sates and Hurdles ef any pattern on the Shortest Notice. BEEHIVE STORES, TIMARU, Corner North Street and Main Road. GROCERIES, CROCKERY, IRONMONGERY, Sec, CHEAPER THAN EVER. J SHEPHERD, m Thinking his Many • Customers for Past Favours, Begs to Inform them and tho Public Generally, that ho has Entirely Rovised his Prices, making many REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS, And will Sell AT THE LOWEST PRICE FOR CASH. J. S. is Agent for Several STAFFORDSHIRE Makers of POTTERY, and Has a LARGE STOCK on Hand, and others to Arrive Direct from the Makers. Also— DOMESTIC IRONMONGERY, BRUSHWARE, CUTLERY, &c, &0., Bought at Birmingham FOR CASH and WILL BE SOLD VERY CHEAP to make Room for Goods Expected Daily. INSPECTION INVITED.