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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9643, 16 January 1899, Page 3

Business Advertisements WiIEN WE STATE t Wu are now slin-ving the Best ASiOnmciH ot Men's and Boys' Straw Hats ever shown in Viotoria House at any period or under any circumj stances, IT/ IS NO FIGURE OF SPEECH, but a stern and absolute reality. i - ■25 DOZEN Magnificent of weii-assortea Straw Hats Shapes and Fabrics, inoluding — ' AT REAL PANAMAS J, BUCkI^H'S, REAL TUSCAN PEARL STRAWS Victoria House, RICE STRAWS Avenue. In every conceivable Shape, from '' Is to 18s is* No Two Hats each. alike. SEE J. J. BUOKREf/L'S WINDOWS. » Tho Addres3 — J. J. BUCKRELL, VICTORIA HOUSE, Victoria Avenue, WAsaANtji. .jr,,~— . They're Coming. Wanganui, 12/1/99. MR D. DAVIEB, Sir,— - Unsolioitoa, I wish to write briefly in appreciation of the " Columbia Chainloss." Ido not assert that this machine is the only good one in the' market, but I think it may be fairly stated that while, in every particular, it is at least equal to tho very best, in several respects it is most distinctly superior to every other machine. I need scarcely say that it runs with remarkable smoothness and oase ; a minuto's trial will convince anyone on this score. I wish, however, to emphasise one or two spooial features of its excellence. 1 may say that I have just returned a trip to Auokland via Taupo and Rotorua, and baok via New Plymouth. On the road I intentionally gave my " Chainless " a complete and searching test, Ovor tho roughest of unformed roads, across frequent streams, up and down bad hills, through an occasional pumico drift or mud patch, wherever I could ride I rode without sparing the machine at all. I carried no oil with me : Othors blackleaded their chains, oiled them, cleaned them, tightened them, slackennd them, I hoard oven of some who walking beside their machines carried sticks to keep the chains clear of mud. My machine got one wipe down with a dry oloth at Wai-o-lapu j with thut excoption the frame was untouched. Yet it seems to run more smoothly since I returned than before I started. Its motion is almost absolutely noiseless : it does no; advertise from afar its approach : at top speed the only sound a rider oan hear ib the low musioal hum of well-oiled, porfectly adjusted machinery. In summing up, 1 can only 6ay that I consider the " Chainless " the ideal touring machine The stock objection again3t it, and in fact the only objection that could be made without being instontly.diaproved, waa tho assertion that it would not wear well. I do not venture to say thatmy experience completely answers this, but it clearly to Bomo oxtont rebuts this argument, which, being based on no known data, is at best mere conjecture or prejudice, lam, et&p. " T, R. CRESSWEfJ;, P,S.— Sinco I returned I havo had my machine taken to pieces and the gearing shows absolutely r.o signs. Qf wpar, THE NATIONAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA Established IsGO. Fob Mutoal Life Asburanoe. Annuities and Endowments. A WORLD-WJDE INSTITUTION. The Non-Forfqiture, Qflice. Cuje? Orpiopa i Mplbournp, Sydpey, Wellington, N.Z., Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane, Perth, W.A., Capetown, and London. t3" With Agencies throughout tho world Heap Office for New ZeaiiANP ; National Mutual Buildings, WELLINGTON. ORTON BTEVENS, Residontr Seoretary, AMOUNT~OF FUNDS, £2,704,000, ' ANNUAL INCOME, £45jU000. ALL PROFITS BELONG TO JQ^HE ASSURED, ■/ and are divided every three ypars. In oaseß where claina arq m,ao;p, or endowments terminate between the tvipnnia.l periods, policies will have the exaot proportion of.bonuaos to date addo'd to them, thus giving policy-holders the very fullest advantage that could acorue from an : annual bonttp. * > ratesTlow. BONUSES LARGE. CONDITIONS LIBERAL. SECURITY AB.S.OP,UTE. L.arge investments in Npw Zealand., and heavy £?ep.qs,its with the Now Zealand Government; which are periodically inoreased, correspondingly with the extension of business in this colony N.B.— ALL CLAIMS PAID LQOALLY Arrangements o.a tp Surrender, NonForfeiture, Loans on Polioies, Immediate Payments of Claims, Free Residence, Ac, are speoially Liberal. 31 IMPORTANT~~PRINCIPLES f n I INTRODUCED \ A JBY THIS ASSOCIATION. I" 1. No Policy allowed to lapse on ac- : count of non-payment of a i premium so long as there }s a Surrender Yaln.e sufficient tq pay the premium overdue. 2, Np Member compelled to pay a higher premium than that set opposite hie age on the published table of rates. 8. The ago of Members taken at the nearest birthday. Insurers taking up their residence in Australia or Great Britain can arrange to havePolicieß transfeired and made payable at chief office most convenient, thus obviating any delay whatever in prompt settlement of death claims, or payment of endowments when they mature. The National Mutual offers the best all ronnd advantages to every class of policy-holder, to which feature ia attributable its annually increasing rolume of business, its universal popularity, and its wonderful growth since its inauguration. Copy New Prospectus, forms of proposal, and every information supplied on application F ANGANUI DISTRICT OFFICE, ' Rutland Chambers, Ridgway St. F, WILSON, Dißtriot Manager. A PERFECT WORK OF ART— The Neatest and Danitieat model imaginable—is the Rambler Picycle. See Price in the Avenue, corner Guyton Street, Wanganni. , ,j_ HE Dantiest little wheeLthat ever was-THff RahblerV" at ; Price .Agent, Avenue ,-corner Guyton st. -■.!:•• •/•. ...... ...-.