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Evening Star, Issue 3198, 21 May 1873, Page 1

WANTED. WANTED Known—l have opened a Shop in George street, near the Octagon, for the Repairs of all kinds of Sewing Machines. Any description of light Engineering work done, or models made. All orders promptly attended to WILLIAM MELVILLE, • Engineer, (Late of the Golden Age). WANTED KNOWN.—For a Good Glass of Ale, Try the PACIFIC HOTEL. For a Choice Glass of Wine or Spirits, Try the Pacific Hotel. All Meals ls> At the Pacific Hotel. T. BUNTING, Proprietor. WANTED Known—To arrive per Oberon, all kinds of Hatters’ goods. V. Almao and Co., Princes street. PUBLIC COMPANIES. SCOTTISH COMMERCIAL INSUR* ANCE CO. FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Claims settled in Dunedin. CAPITAL, £1,000,000. WILLIAM BROWN & CO., Agents, Hick Street. THE SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital, L 500.000, in 25,000 Shares of L2O each, with unlimited liability of shareholders.

Directors. Chairman —Albert Beetham, Esq. Hon. Hen. Chamberlain, M.L.A, Wm. Crush Daldy, Esq., J.P. Stannus Jones, Esq. William Earl, Esq. William Morrin, Esq. Joseph Howard, Esq. General Manager ; A. Boardman. Bankers: Union Bank of Australia. Head Office, 29 Queen street, Auckland. Trustees and Directors, Otago Branch W. H. Pieynolds, Esq., M.H.R. * John Davie, Esq. (M‘Landress & Co.) This Company has been established as a purely New Zealand institution, with all its funds retained and invested in the Colony. It has a very large and influential body of shareholders distributed throughout the entire Colony, who are themselves insurers to a very considerable amount, and consequently can influence a large business, thus adding to the security of the insured and the stability of the Company, the chief features of which are a liberal management, prompt payments, rates moderate, and personal re* sponsibility of a large body of shareholders. Fire and Marine Bisks are now being taken at current rates. W. and 0. TURNBULL and CO., Agents Otago Branch. N.B.—Local Agents wanted in Districts where not yet appointed.

LITERATURE. THE BRIDAL BOUQUET, Culled in the Garden of Literature —by Henry Southgate; email 4t0., superbly bound in cloth, 255. Waverley Novels—new pocket edition ; 2s, in cloth. International Scientific Series—being a series of popular treatises embodying the results of the latest investigations in Science. The first of the series, just out, is Forms of Water in Rain and Bivers, Ice and Glaciers—by Professor Tyndall. (Subscribers wanted for the above series.) John Henry Newman’s Essays, Critical and Historical; 2 vols., 15s. Manual of Mythology, for the use of Schools and Art Students—by A. S. Murray, British Museum, with 35 plates, on toned paper, Hs6d, Sagas from the Far Fast— 11s 6d, Timb’s Romance of London—2 vols., 9s. Timb’s Clubs and Club Life. Our Work in Palestine —4s fid, Charlotte Bronte’s Life and Works—lllustrated edition in 7 vols., 52s fid; or in single volumes, 9s fid. Evening Hours—a Church of England Magazine, edited by E. H. Bickoisteth, 9s fid. Poor Miss Finch, by Wilkie Collins ; Good* bye Sweetheart by Rhoda Broughton ; Thrown Together, One of Two, and Golden Lion of Granp^re. Carlyle’s Works—cheap edition ; 2s fid per vol ,or 2b taking the whole. *> Ancient Classics for English readers—3s per vol. &0., &c, &c. REITH & WILKIE, Princes street.

HOOKER’S New Zealand Flora ; Aus tralia and New Zealand Law List for 1873; Imperial Dictionary, 2 vols,; Map of Otago, 2s; Plan of tho City, shewing sections, 2s 6d; Rifle Exercises and Musketry Instruction ; Field Exercises ; Queen’s Army Regulations; Trollope’s New Work, Australia and Now Zealand; Johnstons New Map of New Zealand, on rollers, varnished. * HENRY WISE, Corner Princes and Rattray streets. JUST PUBLISHED, price 15s, by post 16a 6d, 1 vol, Bvo cloth, 470 pages, 20 colored plates, ■ Constitutional Syphilis, being a practical illustration of the Disease in Pa Secondary and Tertiary Phases, by James George Beaney, F.R.C.S., formerly Burgeon to the Melbourne Hospital, and to Her Majesty’s Troops during the Crimean war. F. F. Bailliere, publisher and importer of medical and other books, Collins street cast, Melbourne, JUST PUBLISHED, price 2s 6d. in cloth 3s 6d, postage 6d, 1 vol. Byo, 240 pages. Children, their management in health and disease, by James George Beaney, F.R.C.S., fomerly Surgeon to Melbourne Hospital, and to Her Majesty’s Troops during the Crimean war. F. F. Bailliere, publisher and importer of medical and other books, Collins street east, Melbourne. UST PUBLISHED, price 10s 6d, by post 12s, 1 vol. Bvo, cloth, 326 pages. The Generative System, and its functions in Health and Disease, by James George Beaney, F.R.C.S., formerly Surgeon to Melbourne Hospital, and to Her Majesty’s Troops during tho Crimean war. * Bailliere, publisher and importer of medical and other books, Collins street east, Mel bourne.