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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1235, 18 February 1878, Page 1

UNITED E VANGELISTIC COMMITTEE. PRAYER MEETINGS, preparatory to Dr. Somerville’s visit, will be held as under:— Every Monday, at the Rooms of the Young Men’s Christian Association, Colombo street, from 12.30 to 1.30 p.m. Every Thursday Evening, at Manchester street Schoolroom, at 7.30. 179 TO STOREKEEPERS, H AWKERS, AND OTHERS. FOR SALE, Well-built Covered VAN, HORSE, and HARNESS complete. Apply to W. fl. HARGREAVES, 183 Cathedral square. TURKISH BATHS ■WITH OT, QOLD, gICILIAN, AND SULPHUR BATHS Always Ready. H TO THE LADIES— Hot and Cold Baths Daily (especial provision made), from 8 a.m. till 4 p.m. Turkish Baths for Ladies—Tuesdays; from 8 a.m. till 4 p.m.; Fridays; from 5 p.m. till 8 p.m. PROF. AYERS, HIGH STREET, CHRISTCHURCH. MONEY TO LEND. THE Canterbury Building Society (Permanent) are prepared to grant LOANS at Current Rate on Freehold or Leasehold Securities, repayable in one year or up to twelve years. For particulars, apply at the offices in Hereford street. 177 EDWARD J. T. FORD, Manager. V. JfwTO, E * NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. 878 TONS OF 521 b. IRON RAILS AND FASTENINGS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. Public Works Office, Wellington, 6th February, 1878. WRITTEN TENDERS win be received at this office until NOON on MONDAY, the 22nd July, 1878, for the above contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside “Tender for Rails and Fastenings.” Flans and specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Wellington, and at the Chief Surveyor’s Office, Nelson, and the Railway Manager’s Office, Napier. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any Telegraph < ’ffice by NOON of the same date, provided that written tenders in due form are lodged at any of the abovenamed offices by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some bank in the town where the tender is lodged; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for twenty-one days, and to be in favour of the ReceiverGeneral’s Deposit Account only, and not to bearer or order. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN CARRUTHERS, 99 Engineer-in-Chief. THE UNION FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, Hereford street (in premises formerly occupied by Llghtband, Allan and Do.) Is prepared to accept FIRE AND MARINE RISKS at current rates. W. DEVENISH MEARF.S, 6531 General Manager. STANDARD Insurance Company. FIRE AND MARINE. CAPITAL £1,000,000. I? 1 IRE and Marine Risks taken at Current r Rates. Fidelity of Persons in Situations of Trust insured. THOMAS R. FISHER, Agent for 1 Canterbury. Offices—Hereford street, Christchurch. 683 THE NEW ZEALAND Insurance Company. Established 1869. Capital... ... ... £1,000,00F Paid-up Capital £3OO,OCt Every description of Fire and Marine Insurance at onrrent rates. DAVID CRAIG, Hereford street. SOUTH BRITISH FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital—ONE MILLION STERLIN 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 n the Colony. A special feature of the SOUTH BRITISH is the prompt and liberal settlement of claims. It has thus paid for lessees in four years £156,467. ITBE AND MARINE BISKS Taken at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. For proposal forms, &c., apply t J. DRUMMOND MACPHERSON, 6660 Manager, Caahe stree _ National insurance company OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital .... ”.. £1,000,000. Paid up, £50,000; Reserve, £70,000. THIS PURELY LOCAL OFFICE < Presents many advantages to the Insuring Public. The Capital and Profits are RETAINED IN THE COLONY. THE HEAD OFFICE and Management being local, settlements are made without vexatious delays, or reference to offices at a distance. KATES AND TERMS equal to those offered by any other Company A. CAR KICK, woe Manager, Ghriatchu ch»