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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5216, 10 December 1877, Page 4

Insurance Companies Australian mutual provident society. Established in the year 1849. FOR MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH : HEAD OFFICE—WELLINGTON. The Annual Revenue exceeds £470,000. The Accumulated Fundnow exceeds £2,000,000. The Society has paid to representatives of deceased members upwards of £700,000. The Society has divided amongst its members £412,000, yielding reversionary bonus additions, amounting to £910,000. The New Business for the year 1876 was 4559 Policies, assuring £1,652,575, producing a new annual revenue of £56,300. Persona assuring in this office shave the whole profits, and a bonus is declared every fifth year. The annual report, prospectuses, and proposal forms may be had (or will be sent post free), on application to the. Branch Office, or to any of the Society’s Agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. RANSATLANTIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG. THE above Company is prepared to accept risks in town and country at lowest current WHITTEM, NICHOLSON, & CO., Agents. INSURANCE COMPANY. All classes cf FIRE RISKS in town or country taken at current rates. EDWARD PEARCE, Auent. Books, Stationery, &c- ] IST O F BOOKS SUITABLE FOE i CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR’S GIFTS IN STOCK AT LYON & BLAIR’S. The following Books, forming part of a very large consignment, are all Elegantly Bound, Superbly Illustrated by the best artists (including Gustave Dore, Ernest Griset, Birket Foster, &e, &c., &o.), and are specially suited for Gifts, Prizes, or Testimonials : Dante’s Inforno, illustrated by Gustave Dore, crown-folio ; cloth, extra gilt Dante’s Paradise and Purgatory, do, do, do Milton’s Paradise Lost, full-page illustrations by Gustave Dore ; cloth, extra gilt Don Quixote, illustrated by Dore, royal 4-to ; cloth, extra gilt La Fontaine's Fables, illustrated by Dore royal 4-to ; cloth, extra gilt. > Shakspere, edited by Mr. and Mrs. Cowden Clarke, in three volumes. Vol. 1— Comedies. Vol. 2 Historical Plays. Vol. 3—Tragedies. Cloth, elegant, extra giltHistory of Franco-Prussian War, 500 engravings, 2 volumes ; cloth, extra gilt. History of the United States, 400 engravings, 2 volumes ; cloth, extra gilt. History of India, maps, plans, and illustrations, crown, 4-to ; cloth, gilt. The Popular Educator, revised to the present date, 6 volumes in 3; half-calf, extra cloth sides. Vicar of Wakefield, 200 illustrations, royal 8-vo.; cloth, extra gilt. The Dore Bible, 220 illustrations by Gustave Dore, strongly bound in leather ; two volumes. Keble’s Christian Year, profusely illustrated, crown 4-to; cloth, extra gilt. Robinson Crusoe, do., do., do. /Esop’s Fables, new and enlaiged edition, 150 original grotesque illustrations by Ernest Griset ; cloth, extra gilt. British Battles on Land and Sea, profusely illustrated, crown 4-to; cloth, extra gilt. Back of the Horse, by Sidney, colored facsimile plates and wood engravings ; cloth, bevelled, extra gilt. World of Wonders, in Nature, Science, and Art, 500 illustrations, imperial, S-vo.; cloth, full gilt. Picturesque Europe-—British Isles—with exquisite steel engravings and original wood engravings, elegantly bound in cloth, extra gilt edges. The Graphic Portfolio, a collection of the most admired pictures from the Graphic, and a description of the art of wood engraving, elegantly bound, half-moroooo, cloth sides, extra gilt. Also, just opened up, a large and carefully selected assortment of children’s books, handsomely bound, all sizes and prices, including the celebrated “One-syllable Series,” Wonder Library, &c., &c., &c. LYON AND BLAIR, Lambton-quay. JWE TTS'S DIARIES, 187 8. The undersigned have still on sale a large assortment of the above Diaries. 100 Varieties of Form, Size, and Price. LYON AND BLAIR, Importers of Books and Stationery. Lambton-quay. Art union of London, is7B (Forty-second Year). Every Subscriber of One Guinea will receive, besides a chance of a prize at the annual distribution, an impression of a fine plate, “THE RETURN OF THE LIFE-BOAT," From the original by B. Duncan. Intending subscribers must forward the amount of their subscriptions to the undersigned on or before the Bth January, 1878. LYON AND BL vIB, Local Agents. Hotels U" NI O N HOTEL. WINES AND SPIRITS OF THE BEST BRANDS. One of Alcook’s superior billiard tables. W. H. SWAIN, Proprietor. rjIHBATRE ROYAL HOTEL. MR. THOMAS BAILEY, late of the s.s. Taupo, has much pleasure in informing the public that he has leased the above well-known Hotel, where he hopes to receive the same amount of patronage accorded to his predecessor, Mr. Urwin. CLARENDON HOTEL, THORNDON, T. BOULD, Proprietor. c N OMMERCIAL HOTEL, WILLTS- STREET. H. BENNETT, Proprietor. EW ZEALANDER HOTEL Manners-street. -I. FENTON, Proprietor. H OROKIWI VALLEY HOTEL First-class Accommodation for Invalids and Others. Special Accommodation for Bridal Parties. ALLAN CARMONT, Proprietor. National hote Lambton-quay. Messrs. BIRCH & WILLIAMS, Proprietc rAFNER’S TEMPERANCE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT,' CUDA-STUKET, WELLINGTON, NZ. The above Hotel and Restaurant has every convenience for Private Families, Boarders, and Commercial Gentlemen; having large and well-ventilated rooms, with spacious Dining and Drawing Rooms. Tourists and Wedding Parties will find this unequalled by any hotel in the district. Families and gentlemen favoring the proprietor with their patronage may rely upon obtaining every home comfort, combined with cleanliness, civility, and moderate charges. Ordinary daily at 1 p.m., and luncheon at any hour. A conveyance from the Hotel will attend all steamers and trains. N.B. —Hot and cold baths. C. TAFNER, Proprietor, Late Chief Steward Government s.s. Stella,