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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 423, 22 November 1856, Page 9

PUBLIC NOTICE. HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified for public information that the upset price of the Eastern and Southern portions of the Christchurch Town. Reserves, will, from and after the date hereof, be Fifty-Two Pounds sterling per acre, the additional two pounds per acre being required to provide a fund for the effectual draining of that portion of the Estate. JOSEPH BRITTAN, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Nov. 10, 185 G. FIVE POUNDS REWARD. LOST or strayed from the Hills round Rhodes' Bay, a lar^e and powerful two-year-old Black mare, with a white spot on the forehead. Whoever will, on finding the same deliver her to Air. Parkinson, Lyttelton, or Mr. Cholmondeley, Port Albert, will receive the above reward. FOR SALE, TWO excellent Family residences, on the banks of the river Waimakiriri. Part o'- the purchase money can remain on mortgage, or stock would be taken in exchange. Apply to ihe owner, Mr. W. C. Beswick, 937 c Kaiapoi. LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE & LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established in 1536. E3IPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. THE AMOUNT OF CAPITAL Subscribed exceeds £1,500,000. The Liability of the Proprietors is declared by the Company's Act of Parliament to be unlimited. BUSINESS. Insurance against Loss by Fire of Property of every description. Life Insurance in all its branches. Insurance of Leases cor Years, by which the value of Property so held is made equal to freehold. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Parties Insuring in the above Department are allowed to reside in any part of New Zealand or Australia (excepting the '•'Diggings.") FIRE DEPARTMENT. Since its establishment in 1836, the Committee has paid, for Losses by Fire, the sum of £241,000. This fact is the best evidence of the service it has rendered the public, and t'ne strongest ground on which to rest its claims to public favour. The premiums are moderate ,- the settlement of claims liberal and prompt. PREMIUMS. On detached Dwelling Houses ") £"1 per cent per and Property therein . . . ) annum. On Warehouses and Stores . . 2 do., do. On Hotels and Lodging-1 bouses y 3do , do. No charge for Policy, however small the amount of Insurance. Agents for New Zealand : COOKSON, EOWLEiL AND CO., I.VTTET.TON. WILLIAM BOWLER, SON, AND CO.. WELLINGTON. Wno are fully empowered to issue Policies and settle claims, on satisfactory proof of loss, and to appoint Agents in other Settlements. PUBLIC OPINION ox THE ROAD QUESTION. \LL persons desirous evpres-mu; —„»_ their opinions, shortly, or; the :\u v.) subject are invited to forward them in \\~•/,i\i-,! to the ofd.-e oi' this p;".vev on or LeLorc oi..r-.f.a/ next. 'It is thus proposed to t-;:ve m'-'H ■:ty roth-.' d:!;iivi.t i.!.':;s whleh exist t;__ ,>a t !;'.■>• much vexed question. No communication should exceed tlfty words. The name of the correspondent lo accom} any' his written opinion, not for pulllu.;:ou, but to ensurj i;s bona tide aat.uv.