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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3965, 23 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. Insxirance Companies. ■\TIOTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY V [Limited]. Established 1849. Reconstructed 1879. Capital £1,000,000. Every description of FIRE, MARINE AND FIDELITY GUARANTEE RISKS Effected at LOWEST RATES. ROSS, SIMS & CO. Agents for Timaru. THE NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. Head Office — Norwich, England. Established 1797. Amount inßured £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 to accept RISKS at LOWEST CURRENT RATES of premium. WALTER F. POTTS, 11-18 2642 Beswick etreet, Timaru. SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Paid-up Capital and Reserve — £244,000. "IjiFFEOTS FIRE and Mi WINE HTSURXLi ANOES of Every Description at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. O. P. STRINGER, Acting Manager, Christchurch. Applications can be made to — Oambbon Bbos., Agents, Waimate Wm. Wiles, Agent, Tomuka and Winchester I. L. Mobbib, Agent, Pleasant Point H. and A. Bbuob, Agents, St. Andrews H. N. Hibkenb, Agent, Geraldine. And, CANTERBURY FARMERS' CO-OPERA-TIVE ASSOCIATION, 11-14 7841 Aobnt, Thnara. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIKTY OF THE UNITED BTATE3. 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 the past twenty-six years of its history it has written £21,800,000 mobb of assurance than any other Company during the same period. 3. SAFETY. Its surplus is larger than any other Life Assurance Company. 3. PROMPT PAYMENT. In promptitude m payment is unrivalled. Paid NKAELY £19,000,000. 3. RESULTS. No other Society is paying on it 3 policies as large profits as are shown under the EquitabJe's Matured Fifteen Years' Tontine Policies. Further particulars on application to any agent, or W. B. CRAIG. DIBECTOB3 (With power to issue Policies and Pay Claims) : Sir Fbbdebice Whitakeb, K.C.M.G., M.L.C. Hon. James Williamson, M.L.C. Dr. Logan Campbell. Business Notices. ■jyr rs milton HAS REMOVED TO PREMISES Opposite Bowker's Store, Main Bouth Road. DRESSMAKING AT MODERATE CHARGES. Appbentioes 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, ENGINEER, MILLWRIGHT, BLACKSMITH, WHEELWRIGHT, &o. All kinds of Agricultural and Milling Machinery Made and Repaired. CASTINGS IN IRON OR BRASS SUPPLIED. Ornamental Gates an d 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 Flitche3 (assorted sizes), Kauri (rough and dreaßed timber), Skirtings, Architraves, Mouldings, Floorings and Lining (thoroughly seasoned — kept under cover, ready for immediate übo), Red and White Pine, Totara, Black Pine, Baltic Deals, White Pine Flooring, lining and shelving (thoroughly seasoned), V.D.L. Timber and Palings, Plasterers' Latbs and Hair, Cement (best brands.) Doors and Sashes made on the Premises. Also BEST NEWCASTLE and WES LPORt' COALS Gates and Hurdles of any pattern on the Shortest Notico. BEEHIVE STORES, TIMARU, Corner North Street and Main Road. I GROCERIES, CROCKERY IRONMONGERY, &c, CHEAPER THAN EVER. J SHEPHERD, m Thinking his Many • Customers for Pa3t Favours, Begs to Inform them and tho Public Generally, that he has Entirely Revised 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 LARG-K STOCK on Hand, and othera to Arrive Direct from the Makers. Abo— DOMESTIC IRONMONGERY, BRUSHWARE, CUTLERY, &c, &c, Bought at Birmingham FOR CASH and • WILL BE SOLD VERY CHEAP ■ to make Room for Goods Expected Daily. INSPECTION INVITED.