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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3095, 7 January 1871, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, Established 18-;9. FOR MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, kc, Without personal liability; Principal Office ; Now Pitt Btreet, Sydney. Directors : George King, Esq., M.P., Chairman Professor John Smith, M.D., Deputy Chairman Samuel Lyons, Esq. Boulton Molineaux, Edwin Thos. Beilby, Esq. Esq. John Fairfax, Esq. The special advantages offered by this well established Society are — 1. UNDOUBTED SECURITY. —On the 28(,h February, 1869, the ascertained total Liability of tho Society was ... £453,000 while tho 'Accumulated assets wero 602,646 Showing a Clear Surplus of ... £140,640 There is also ovor and above the Assurance Fund the additional Security of a Special Reserve Fund of £50,000. At the abovo dato the Society had in hand equal to 70 per rent, of tlio entire Assurance Premiums received from members. 2. LARGE BONUSES.— Because being a purely Mutual Office, tho entire Profits belong to the Assured, and have not to be paid away in Dividends to Shareholders. Tho total Reversionary Bonuses declared by the Society amount fco £485,000. Members of the Assurance Branch can obtain the value of their bonuses in Cash, or appropriate them to a rcduclion of future Premiums. Premiums may bo paid half-yearly or quarterly. Should a member die during tho djiys of grace, whilst the premium is unpaid, tho Policy will be valid and effectual. PROFITS DIVIDED EVERY FIVE YEARS. LOANS, within tho Surrender Value, are granted to members on the Security of their policies. SURRENDER VALUES aro granted after a Policy has endured Three Years. Conditions for residence and voyaging most liberal. Forms of Proposal and every information may bo obtained on application to VENNELL, MILLS & CO., Agents. Wellington, November 5, 1870. BETTS'S CAPSULE PATENTS.— To prevent infringements, notico is hereby given, that BETT'S name is on every capsule lie makes for he principal merchants in England and France, hus enabling vendor, purchaser, and consumer, not only to identify tho genuineness of the capsule, but likewise the contents of the vessel to which it is applied. The Lord Chancellor, in his judgement on the Bth Febrnary, 1868, said that the capsules are not used merely for the purpose of the ornament, but that thoy are serviceable in . protecting the wine from injury and insuring its genuineness. Manufacturers:—!, Wharf Road, Cifcy Road, London, and Bordeaux, France. ■VTEWBST GRAND AUSTRIAN STATE j_N LOAN LOTTERY, Guaranteed and Controlled by the Government in the amounfc of 120 million Florins, or 250 million Francs, which ii fco bb repaid by 400,000 Premium Prizes in Five Yearly Drawings, in fche manner fchat every second month a great drawing takes place, at which will be drawn Prizes of 20 h 500,000 Francs, 10 k 450.000, 60 h 400,000, 81 k 300,000, 20 a 100,000, 20 a 500,000, 121 a. 400,000, 90 a 30,000, 171 i 20,000, 352 a. 10,000, 432 k 5000, &c, &c, till 300 Francs, the lowest prizo. The prize of one share is Francs 25— Lsfc. 1. or $5 „ Five „ 100 „ 4. „S2O „ Eleven „ 200 „ 8. „S4O „ Twenty-four,, 400 „ 16. „SBO The underiigned Banking Houso Bends tickets lo the furthest countries, bank bills or remittances on a mercantile place in Europe. List of the drawings are punctually delivered (free of expense) to every shareholder as soon as fche result of the drawing is known. The prizes falling to the lots will be paid in all Transatlantic cities. Only in Germany, favored by the chance, I paid to ray subscribers first prizes of 300,000, 200,000, 150,000, and 100,000 Francs, kc Orders, with remittances, will be executed promptly and under direction by CHARLES HOLLE, Banking House in Frankfort on Main (Germany), Zeil street, No. 47, opposite the Royal Post Office. ■ : CAUTION. STEEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS for Children cutting their teeth. Purchasers are requested to beware of imitations of this medicine, and to observe, in every case that the words " John Steedman, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey," are engraved on the Government stamp affixed to each packet,' without which none are genuine Sold by all chemists and druggists in New Zealand. IN PACKETS. Wholesale Agents — Felton, Grimwade & Co. 34, Flinders street West, Melbourne. TO THE TRADE, GENTLEMEN FURNISH ING, AND OTHERS. THE UNDERSIGNED, having received large Consignments of English and Scotch made FURNITURE, direct; attention to the following which fchey offer for Sale on reasonable terms : — 12 elegant walnut wood suites of drawingroom furniture, upholstered in rich brocatelle, Utrecht, velvet and silk rep 12 massive diningroom suites of Spanish mahogany, in haircloth and Morocco < leather 100 French, canopy top, and other brass and iron bedsteads 20 costly gilt frame chimney glasses, all sizes 2 cases of cheval glasses, adapted for drapers 18 handsome walnut chefiloniers and mahogany Bideboards, fitted with silvered plate glass and marble 36 whatnots, elegant designs 50 rolls of Buperior Brussels carpets 50 do do tapestry do 10 rolls of oilcloth, in three qualities 20 best quality feather beds 100 do bolsters and pillows 10 cwt. superior horsehair 1 ton of best flock 3 full-size slate bagatelle tables with and without pockets, adapted for hotels 50 cases of suporior London made cane seat chairs, in every design and quality 30 do do American 30 marble top washstands and tables Pianofortes by Collard and Ralph Allison Harmoniums by Alexandre Wardrobes with plate glass doors 20 handsome 100, card, and occasional tables, elegant designs 30 superior sofas and couches, in haircloth and leather * 30 do easy chairs Also, 2 elegant basket park phaetons 2 do Stanhope do 2 London built spring carts with patent axles 2 first-class hansom cabs Further particulars on application by letter. Photographs and full particulars of all articles above tho value of £5 posted free on application. T. NEWTON & CO., Nelson. VARNISHES.— Messrs. CHARLES TURNER and SON, Broad-streot.Bloom&bury, London, whoso business has been established 50 years, beg fco inform painters, builders, decorators, varnish dealers, merchants, railway ' companies, and carriage manufacturers, thafc they have laid down in Melbourne (in bond and duty paid) an assorted Btockof. their SUPERIOR VARNISHES, perfectly matured and expressly prepared for exportation, and thafc they have appointed sole agents for the Australian colonies, Messrs FITCH and FRENCH, oil, color, and paperhanging merchants, Melbourne.