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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1076, 8 December 1877, Page 4

SOUTH BRITISH TTEE & MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital—ONE MILLION STERLING Paid-up Capital, Reserve Fund, £IOO,OOO. £58,750. THE above Company offers UNDOUBTED SECURITY to Insurers, having a large, wealthy, and influential proprietary resident in New Zealand. All the Company’s FUNDS are invested in the Colony. A special feature of the SOUTH BRITISH is the prompt and liberal settlement of claims. It has thus paid for lossess in four years £156,467. HEE AND MARINE RISKS Taken at LOWEST CURRENT EATES. For proposal forms, &c., apply t J. DRUMMOND MACPHERSON, 6660 Manager, Cashel street. THE NEW ZEALAND Insurance Company. Established 1859. Capital £1,000,000 Paid-up Capital £300,000 Every description of Fire and Marine In* nrance at current rates. DAVID CRAIG, Hereford street. fjpHE Undersigned have FOR SALE— A few Croquet Sets, very cheap. Being considerably overstocked with shopkeepers’ Day Books a large discount will be allowed to purchasers. Shopkeepers’ Foolscap Billpaper, long and broad, from 16s 6d per ream. Business Envelopes, 7s 6d per thousand. A good supply of the favorite Pens known as the “ Dash-a-Long,” “Skedaddle,” “Punch,” and “Hindoo” Pens. Fire-Stove Aprons. New Book-Marks. JUST ARRIVED— A choice assortment of Prayers, with Hymns Ancient and Modern, in 1 vol. Also, The same in 2 vols., in case. New Church Services, Bibles, &c. HENRY J. WOOD & C 0.,! Booksellers, 7012 High street. WAUBEBD GOALS 23 s * per ton 23 s * DELIVERED IN TOWN. The wallsend coal mining COMPANY LIMITED Having now Opened their New Coalpits, are prepared to supply the public with the BEST COLONIAL HOUSEHOLD AND STEAM COAL Ever yet brought into the market. Orders left at the Yard in Tuam street will receive prompt attention. JOSEPH B. SHEATH, Manager, WALLSEND COAL MINING COMPANY LIMITED. 6515 T. R. PROCTER, WATCHMAKER, AND MANUFACTURING JEWELLER, Of High street, Christchurch (opposite City Hotel.) Optician !ss. .. T. R. Procter, from 30 years’ experience in the spectacle branch of his business, knowing the difficulty there has been in procuring the same of reliable material, properly adjusted to the sight, has secured the services of a first-class and thoroughly qualified Optician (late of Dollond and Son, London), and the only Practical Optician in New Zealand, can guarantee to supply spectacles in any description of frame, suitable to any sight, of the best Brazilian Pebbles, or the Patent Tinted, or other Crystals, The near-sighted, and those suffering from weak eyes, requiring Spectacles, should take the opportunity of calling upon T, R. Procter, during their visit to Christchurch, when they can have their sight gauged and registered by Dr. Ackland’s patent Optometer for carefully testing the sight and supplying suitable spectacles, as they can at any time be supplied by post. N.B, —Every description of Catoptical and Optical Lenses, also Optbalmoscopes, and Laryngoscopes made to order on the orcniisos. 6444