Page 1 Advertisements Column 1

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1365, 13 December 1872, Page 1

Shipping:. TI/TESSRS M'MECKAN, BLACKWOOD IVI AND" CO. 'S steamers will be despatched, weather permitting, from Greymouth on or about the following dates :— (Tor Melbourne Direct— CLAUb HAMILTON, Clark, commander, THIS EVENING, at 6 p.m. ALHAMBRA, Pearce, commander, on or about 120 th instant. For Nelson, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff Harbor, and Melbourne— R ANGITOTO, Mackie, commander, on or about 18th instant. Unless passengers book at the office of the Agents one hour prior to the departure of the tender Dispatch, they will require to pay their own fare over the bar. Owing to the inconvenience arising from so many visitors to the ocean-going steamers, no one will henceforth be allowed on board, without an order from the Agents. For freight or passage, apply to T>. GIRDWOOD and CO., Agents. Mawhera Qnay. N.B.— Passengers booked through to Sydney and Adelaide. Tt/TESSRS M'MECKAN, BLACKWOOD IVI & COS LINE OF STEAMERS. SPECIAL HOLIDAY EXCURSION TRIPS To all New Zealand Ports at which the steamers call. RETURN TICKETS AT SINGLE FARE, Available for the months of December, 1872, and January, 1873. Return Tickets will likewise be granted to Melbourne by 4 the aboyenamed line of steamers at reduced fares, viz., CftMn £17 0 Steerage ... 8 10 Available for return during. all February, 1873. Apply to D. GIRDWOOD & CO., Agents. HONOLULU, SAN FRANCISCO, AND OVERLAND TO ENGLAND. Che California, New Zealand and Australia Mail Steamship Line Under Contract with the New Zealand Government for a Four- Weekly Mail Service. r pHE Magnificent and Powerful Steamship D A, O- O T A "H.-, 2146 tons register, T. Ingersoll, Esquire, Commander, WjU be despatched from Auckland On THDRBDAY, 26th DECEMBER. Oreymonlh. Saloo gS^J, Steerage. To San Francisco £46 0 £43 0 £23 0 „ New York 73 0 70 0 35 10' „ Liverpool 85 10 82 10 40 0 Passengers have the option of either pro- ' oeeding direct on their journey, or spending two months -in crossing the Continent of America. Express trains, with palace sleeping coaches attached, leave San Francisco 3auy, and run through to New York in six lays and 20 hours. For particulars, apply at once to NANOABROW, HENDERSON & CO. ' Agents, Greymouth. . STEAM-TUG DISPATCH, TTHE Grey River Steam Tug Company's JL powerful Double-Engine Steamer DISPATCH, Is prepared to Tow Vessels in and out of the river as per agreement, to be arranged yn application to J. W. MOSS, Manager, „,■',.• Tainui street. Public Companies rnHB SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND JL MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital : £500,000, in 25,000 shares, of £20 ekdf, with unlimited liability of shareholders, ' : Directors : ■ Chairman— Albert Beetham, Esq. B<»n Henry Chamberlain. M.L.A. • Wm. Crust Daldy, Esq., J.P. Stannus Jones, Esq. William Earl Kbit. William Morrin, Esq. Solicitors— Messrs Hesketh and Richmond. Bankers— Union Bank of Australia. General Manager— A. Boardman. Head Office— 29, Queen street, Auckland. This has . been established as a purely N<Jw Zealand institution, with all ita funds retained and invested in the colony. It has a very large and influential .body oi sbareholdersdistiibuted throughout theentire 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 oi the Company, the chief features of which are a liberal management, prompt payments, rates moderate, and personal responsibility of a Isrge body of shareholders. Fire and Marine Insurance is now carried on throughout the colony. Marine bushiest will also be commenced in Australia and Great Britain as soon as arrangements cat be made. NANCARROW, HENDERSON & CO., ■ Agents. Greymcmtb, October 18, 1872, 1 v W . '' M 0 S S SHIPPING * COMMISSION AGENI ftinnl itrtrt, opposite Bros.