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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3966, 24 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. "VTICTORIA 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 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 to 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 — £244,000. T7IFFEOTS FIRE and Mi JUNE INSUBHi ANCES of Every Description at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. O. P. STRINGER, Acting Manager, Christchurch. Applications can be made to — Oambbon Beos., Agents, Waimate Wm. Wilts, Agent, Temuka and Winchester I. L. Mobbis, Agent, Pleasant Point H. and A. Bbtjoe, Agents, St. Andrews H. N. Hiskbns, Agent, Geraldine. And, CANTERBURY FARMERS' CO-OPERA-TIVE ASSOCIATION, 11-14 7S4S Aohnt. Tim&ru. 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 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. 2. SAFETY. Its surplus is larger than any other Life Assurance Company. 3. PROMPT PAYMENT. In promptitude m payment is unrivalled. Paid neablt £19,000,000. 3. RKSULTS. No other Society is paying on its policies as large profits as we shown under the Equitable's Matured Fifteen Years' Tontine Policies. Further particulars on application to any agent, or W. B. CRAIG. DiBECTona (With power to issue Policies and Pay Claims) : Sir Fbbdebick Whiiakkb, K.0.M.G., M.L.C. Hon. James Wiii.iaiisos', M.L.O. Dr. Logan Campbell. Bvisiness Notices. 11/r RS MILTON HAS REMOVED TO PREMISES Opposite Bowker's Store, Main South Road. DRESSMAKING AT MODERATE CHARGES. Appbenticbs 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, TTINGINEER, MILLWRIGHT, BLACKXU SMITH, WHEELWRIGHT, &c. All kinds of Agricultural and Milling Machinery Made and Repaired. CASTINGS IN IRON OR BRASS SUPPLIED. Ornamental Gates and Railings made toOrder. 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), Skirtings, Architraves, Mouldings, Floorings and Lining (thoroughly seasoned — kept under covpr, ready for immediate use), Red and White Pine, Totara, Black 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 Sashes made on the Premises. Also, — BEST NEWCASTLE and WESTPORT COALS. Gate 3 and Hurdles ef any pattern on tho Shortest Notice. BEEHIVE STORES, TIMARU, Corner North Street and Main Road. GROCERIES, CROCKERY, IRONMONGERY, &c, CHEAPER THAN EVER, J SHEPHERD, m Thinking his Manj • Customers for Past Favours, Begs tc Inform them and the Public Generally, that he has Entirely Revised his Prices, making many REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS, And will SeU 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. 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. INSPEOIION INVITED.