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Shipping Notices. SHIP HELEN DENNY, FROM LONDON. r „ /CONSIGNEES APE HEREVA BY NOTIFIED that the above Ship commenced discharging this morning, and that all cargo not passed for will he stored at their risk and expense. No claim will be acknowledged for goods not examined before leaving the wharf, BILLS OF LADING must be produced, and FREIGHT PAID, to the undersigned. CAPTAIN RUTH will not be responsible for debts contracted by the crew without his authority. LEVIN & CO., Agents. November 10. Insurance Companies. ]SP 2W ZEALAND INSUKANCE COMPANY. Established 1859. Capital£l ,000,000, of which £240,000 is paid up. Fire and Marine Risks of every description will be accepted at the lowest current rates. BETHUNE & HUNTER, Agents, Wellington. The south British fire and MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. CAPITAL £750,000. With Unlimited Inability of Shareholders. The above Company offers undoubted security to insurers, having a large, wealthy, and influential proprietary resident in the Colony, where also all its funds are invested. As a purely Colonial institution, it has therefore a prior claim on insurers. The Company undertake insurance against every description of both Fire and Marine Risks at lowest current rates of premium. The chief characteristics of the Company are undoubted security, liberal terms, and prompt settlement of losses. For proposal forms aud further particulars, Apply to W. & G. TURNBULL & CO., Agents, Wellington. O O L AND PRODUCE. NEW ZEALAND TO LONDON. Merchants and others can make arrangements for next season for INSURING WOOL and PRODUCE from ports in New Zealand to London direct, or from Stations, from time the Wool is shorn, by any route, till delivered in United Kingdom. Claims payable in London. Policies issued at any of the Company’s Agencies. NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY. JOHNSTQN & CO., Agents, Wellington. gTANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. CAPITAL-ONE MILLION STERLING. Head Office: PRINCESS STREET, DUNEDIN. Losses by Fire Insured against on stores, warehouses, dwelling houses, &c., at current rates. The Company will also take risks on wool and all kinds of merchandise on land or at sea, and either on valued or open policies, on the most favourable terms. Particular attention is drawn to Articles of Association, by which, after paying shareholders IS per cent., the balance is to be distributed as . follows; —10 per cent, to go to Reserve Fund, 30 per cent, to POLICY HOLDERS, and balance as Company may determine. Agents for Wellington: SAMUEL, LADD, & CO. ■’y'ICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. Established 1319. CAPITAL £200,000 Head Office : Melbourne. Insurance of every description effected at lowest current rates, and claims promptly met. Losses can be made payable in any part of New Zealand or the Australian colonies. LEVIN & CO., Agents. INSURANCE COMPANY. All classes of FIRE RISKS in town or country taken at current rates. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent. A USTRALI AN MUTUAL PROVIDENT A SOCIETY FOR MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, &c. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH ; Head Office ; Wellington, Present Annual Revenue, £280,000. Accumulated & Invested Funds, £1,330,000 Persons Assuring with this Office share the whole profits, and a Bonus is declared every fifth year. JOSEPH DYER, Resident Secretary. Books, Stationery, &cE MORTON, BOOKSELLER aud • STATIONER, Creytown, has on hand, and to arrive, a large assortment of BOOKS and STATIONERY, which he sells at Wellington prices. R. M. will OPEN a BRANCH STORE in Masterton as soon as his new promises are completed. The trade supplied. Creytown, Ist May, 1874. Lyon and blair’s new list of books ON SALE. OcTODKIt, 1574. Problems of Life and Mind, by George Henry Lowes ; voi. J. Autobiography and Memoir of Dr. Thomas Guthrie, by his Sons ; Vol. 1. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES.—VoI. 10. The Science of Law, by Sheldon Axnos, H. A. Vol. 11. The Animal Frame: or jErial and Terrestrial Locomotion, by C. J. Marey, with 117 engravings. DICKENS'S WORKS.—New Illustrated Household Edition. Volumes now* published arc Burnaby lludge, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewifc, David Ooppcrfteld, Bleak House, Little Dorrit. Nancy, u new novel, by the author o! “ Red as a Rose is She/’ “ Cometh up as a Flower/' &c., &c. A Princess of Thule, a new novel by William Black, author of “ In Silk Attire,” “ Daughter of ileth,” &c. •Strange Adventures of a Phfeton, a new novel, by the same author as '* A Princess of Thule,” &c. London Journal, Vol. 59, to July, 1874 The cabinet edition of Mr. Tennyson’s works ; vol. 1, Early Poems, with photographic portrait; vol. 2, . English Idylls and other poems Farjeon's Christmas Stories, bound in one volume The Fair Haven, by Butler, author of "Lrewhon” The Albert N’Yanza Great Basin of the Nile, by Sir Samuel Baker The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, by Sir Samuel Baker Natural Selection, a scries of essays by A. R. Wallace, author of the “ Malay Archipelago” Inventus Mundl: the Gods and Men of the Heroic Age, by the Right lion, W. E. Gladstone The Theologyand Theologians of Scotland, by James Walker, D.D. Steam and the Steam Engine (Land and Marino), by HenryEvers, L.L.D. LYON & BLAIR,