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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5239, 8 January 1878, Page 4

Books, Stationery &c. N ° w READY. “ILLUSTRATED NEW ZEALAND HERALD," ; With Large Colored Supplement entitled “ Papa’s Slippers.” Price, Is. . “ Wild Will Enderby and George Washington Pratt” (by Vincent Pyke, Esq,), and “ Punch Almanac,” can be obtained from Mr. John Watt, Bookseller. Lyon and blair, lambton] QUAY. New Books, and new Editions, just received by Suez Mail and other late arrivals— Weaver’s and Weft, by Miss Braddon, cheap edition Ariadne, by Ouida, cheap Australian edition Vagabond Papers, fourth aeries Ivinglake’s Crimea, cheap edition, 6th and concluding volume Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot, cheaper edition Heritage of Langdale, by Mrs. Alexander.. Tennyson’s Queen Mary, cheap cabinet edition Tennyson’s Harold, cheap cabinet edition Lady Silverdale’a Sweetheart, by W. Black Her Mother’s Darling, by Mrs. Riddell The Prime Minister, hy Trollope, cheap edition Sir Harry Hotspur, by Trollope, cheap edition A Pair of Blue Eyes, by Hardy Phcebe Junior, by Mrs. Oliphant Grey House at Eudlestone, by Mrs. Worboise Story of Avis, by author of “ The Gate’s Ajar” ANNUALS AND SERIAL VOLUMES EOR IS7B. Illustrated London Almanac, colored plates Bow Bells Almanac Chatterbox, cloth and boards Little Wideawake, cloth and boards Kind Words, boards Sunday, boards Child’s Companion, boards Children’s Treasury, boards LYON' AND BLAIR, Lambton-quay, Wellington. BOOKS. —The undersigned has received the following with his last shipments of GIFT BOOKS, AND PRIZES, SUITABLE FOB CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR. Earth and Sea, by Louis Eiguier ; a superbly illustrated volume, hound in cloth, also in full morocco, extra gilt. The Ocean, by Reclus ; 2 vols., full green or bine calf, extra gilt. The Earth, by Reclus ; 2 vols., do., do., do. Pictorial Beauties of Nature, sketches in various departments of Natural History ; 24 full-page illustrations by the best artists ; cloth, extra gilt. The World of the Sea, by Tandon ; colored illustrations, bound in cloth, also in calf, extra gilt. Turner’s Art Studies of Home Life, illustrated by 24 full-page photographs ; cloth, extra gilt. ■ English Painters of the Victorian Era, Mulready to Landseer ; 48 photographs ; cloth, extra gilt. Gems of Modern German Art, illustrated by Carbon ; photographs ; cloth, extra gilt. Picture Posies, poems and drawings, chiefly by living authors ; cloth (elegant), extra gilt. Nature, or the Poetry of Barth and Sea, by Michelet, with 200 designs by Gricomelli; bound in cloth (elegant), also in full morocco, extra gilt. Woods’ Illustrated Natural History, 500 illustrations, engraved by Dalziel Brothers ; cloth, extra gilt.' Arabian Nights Entertainments, Dalziel’s illustrated editions ; cloth, extra gilt. The Midnight Sky, with notes, star-maps, and other illustrations, by Dunkin ; cloth, gilt. The Authographic Mirror, inedited authographs of illustrious and distinguished men, and other interesting fac similes ; half-calf, gilt. Leopold’s Shakspere, from the text of Professor Delius ; cloth, extra gilt. American Pictures, drawn with pen and pencil; hound in cloth (elegant), also in full morocco, extra gilt. Italian Pictures, Spanish Pictures, Swiss Pictures, &c., &0., &c. Also, Don Quixote, illustrated by Dore, royol 4-to ; cloth, extra gilt. La Fontaine’s Fables, do., do. Adventures of Baron Munchausen, do., do. Days of Chivalry, Tom Hood, do., do. ANNUAL VOLUMES, 1378, NOW OPENING UP. i®”INSPECTION IS INVITED.*®* L. T. BOWDEN, (Late T. A.- Bowden and Sons), Featherston-streefc. Insurance Companies LOBE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED.! CAPITAL ... ... £500,000. Head Office : Loudon. Risks on merchandise and steamers to all parts of the world taken at lowest current rates. Losses promptly paid in Wellington, London, or any of the numerous agencies. LEVIN & GO., Agents. ■yiCTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY. 1 FIRE AND MARINE. Established 1849. CAPITAL ... £200,000 Head Office : Melbourne. Insurance of every description effected at lowest current rates, and claims promptly met. Losses can beinade payable in any part of New Zealand or the Australian colonies. LEVIN & CO., Agents. JMVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. All classes of FIRE RISKS in town or country taken at current rates. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent. Australian mutual proyi DENT SOCIETY. Established in the year 1849. FOR MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH: HEAD OF FI G E—WELLINGTON. The Annual Revenue exceeds £470,000. The AccumulatedFimduowexceeds£2,ooo,ooo. The Society has paid to representatives of deceased members upwards of £700,000. Tha Society has divided amongst its members 1 £412,000, yielding reversionary bonus additions, amounting tp £910,000. The New Business for the year 1876 was 4569 Policies, assuring £1,652,575, producing ia now annual revenue of £56,300. Persons assuring in this office share the whole profits, and a bonus is declared every fifth year. The annual report, prospectuses, and proposal forms may, be had (o.r will be sent post free), on application to the Branch Office, or to any of the Society’s Agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. rpRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSURANCE JL COMPANY OF HAMBURG. THE above Company is prepared to accept risks in town and country at lowest current NICHOLSON, & CO., Agents.