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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3085, 7 January 1879, Page 3

A USTRALIAN MUTUAL PEOVIJ\. DENT SOCIETY. Established in the Year 1819. For Life .Assurance on the Mutual Principle. New Zeaiand Beanch. Invested Funds ... ... £2,300,000 Annual Income 550,000 Amount Assured ... ... 12,000,000 Claims Paid 850,000 Policies in Foroe 31,000 LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM. Sixth Division o» Pbowts. The whole of the profits are divided amongst the assured, and bonuses to the amount of £910,000 bare already been allotted. The last division of profits took place in 1874, and the cash surplus then divided amounted to £235,000, giving additions to policies averaging £3 per cent, per anuum on the sum assured. The bonuses paid on policies becoming claims have varied from £15 per cent, on the sum assured for a policy of five years' standing to £150 per cent, for one of twenty-five j ears' duration. Bonuses become vested additions to policies when they have been full five years in force. The profits realised during the last five years will be ascertained and divided as at 31st December next, and bJI policies issued on or before that date will be entitled to participate in the profits of quinquennium. Prospectus, forms of proposal, and all information may be obtained from the Branch Office, Wellington, or from any of the Society's agents. Edwabd W. Lowe, Resident Secretary. D. R. G EL L I O N , Agent fob thb Thames. 3631 phristmas presents ! I JAMES FINLAY WISHES to draw the attention of the Public to his Large and Wellselected Stock of Jewellery, suitable for CHBISTMA.S AND NEW YEAR'S GIFTS, and which he is now offering at rery low prices. All kinds of Jewe^ery made to order on the premises in the newest designs, and in a superior manner. Quartz and Greenstone Cut and Mounted. Watches and Clocks Cleaned and Regulated in a satisfactory manner. JAMES EINLAT, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLED, WILLIAMBOH StBEET, Grahamstown. 3526 > : —■———: —:—:f . Hurrah for New Year! GLORIOUS NEWS.'!! —— ■ . (IK ■ WE have much pleasure to snnounce to our Customers and Friends that we have JUST RECEIVED, from the British aad Continental Markets, A VERY LARGE AND VARIED CHOICE SELECTION Off GOODS, Suitable for Holiday Presents, Prizes, Ac. &c. We Enumerate a Few:— Dolls, Tops - Drums, Tambourines Horses,Hqbby Horses Pistols, Bats, Balls Busses, Whips , S. Ropes, Concertina! .Toilet Sets, Vases . Perfumes, Pomade Japanese Goods - Lime Juice&Glyeeirine Work Box, Puff Box Macassar Oil, Hair Oil Magic Lanterns. CHEAPER THAN EVER. SCCE SIGNUM! Shortland Bazaar, POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND SOUTH R. MORGAN. VV Keisanowski, TAILOR, POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND, BEGS to call the attention of the Public to his Stock of Cloths, Suitable for the present Season, and to intimate that all Orders entrusted to him will be executed with Despatch, atid at the most reasonable terms. *""• f?ANCY SHOWCARDS in various colours S uneouaJJed for deoign and execution,' at tie X»iwn»B Bt*.B Office. \ NEIVALLED PRINTING of all kind U — Artißtio and Chaste designj. At the BvbotwoSia Office,