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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6069, 27 October 1887, Page 1

KEMPTHOBNE, PBOSSEE & CO., Dunedin, Chrißtchurch, and "Wellington j WHOLESALE AGENTS. On the first Sunday in July the temperature in England was somewhat exceptional. An experimental philosopher placed his thermometer, which had had ten years' exposure in all weathers, on the > gravel walk on Sunday, and stood by to 1 Bee what would happen. The instrument ' was adapted to register a heat of 186deg, i and the mercury, under the full rays of > the sun, soon began to merge upon the maximum. From 90deg it rose to llOdeg, '■ and then to 129deg, and just before ■ mid-day the thermometer burst. ! Insurance Companies. : "P HtENIX JyißE OfFIOE, [Established 1782.J LOBSBB PAID OVEE £15,000,000. , EVEBY DESCBIPTj GN OP PIBJS INSUEANCE I EFFECTED , AT LOWEST CUEBENT BATES. PBOMPT AND LIBEBAL SETTLEMENT OF l Ollivieb and Gtbiebson, i Agehts, I 175, HEBKFOKD STREET, (Opposite Bank of New Zealand.) 6653 I rriHß COLONIAL INSUBANCE COMPANY _L OF NEW ZEALAND. 1 CAPITAL „• ... •-• 43,000,000. ESeota every description of Fire and Marine l Insurance at Loweßt Current Bates. Being a purely local institution claina aro settled with , promstitude. CUPF & GEAHAM , Managers for Canterbury, 131, Lichfield street, Chrißtchurch. Agents wanted in unrepresented districts. 9178 1 *TIHE EQUITABLE INSUBANCE ; a A ASSOCIATinH OF NEW ZEALAND. B CAPITAL— £I,OOO,OOO. INDUSTBIAL BBANCH. a 1. Pexßonß of totU sexes admitted from one . month up to sixty; ears of age from one penny pot ° i week and upwards. p ; 2. Children may join to receivo certain auma at 1 fourteen or twonty-ono years of ngu. 7 j S. 4 gents call at members' houses to receive '*^-^ Binmß ' GRO.|IEIHaEB, Manager.