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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5330, 27 April 1878, Page 4

Public Companies The equitable building and INVESTMENT COMPANY OF WELLINGTON (LIMITED.) IMPORTANT NOTICE. This Company is allowing interest on deposits at the following rates : At call, 0 per cent, per annum For 3 months, G 1 do do For 6 or 12 months, 7 do do By order of the Board of Directors, J. 11. OTTO SCHWARTZ, Secretary. - USTRALTAN MUTUAL' PHOVIDENT SOCIETY. Established in the year 1819. ‘ FOB MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH; HEAD OFF I C E—WELLINGTON. The Annual Revenue exceeds £470,000. The AocumulatedFnnduowexcoeds £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 1870 was 4559 Policies, assuring £1,652,575, producing a new annual revenue of £56,300. Persons assuring in this office share the whole profits, and a bonus is declared every fifth year. Tho 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. INSURANCE COMPANY. All classes of FIRE RISKS in town or country taken at current rates. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent, Conveyances 'AST WELL, MAOAKA, & CO.’S NEW TIME TABLE FOB COBB & CO.’S MAIL COACHES. On akio after Feb. 4, 1878. Leave per Train. shortest notice for special occasions, but the above TABLE will supply ALL the regular traffic.

Education Board of the Education District of Wellington, April 11, 1878. “IVTOTICE is hereby given that on MONJ3I DAV, the 29fch INST., at S o’clock in the evening, a Public Meeting -of Householders in each of the four School Districts of the city of Wellington, as described in the schedule below, will be held in accordance with the following clauses of the Education Act, 1877 , 63. The first meeting of the householders in every school district shall be held on such day in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight,, and at such time and place, as the Board of the district in which such school districts respectively are shall for each appoint, and at every such meeting the householders present shall elect in manner hereinafter provided seven householders to form the committee for such district. 64. On the fourth Monday in the month of January in each year succeeding the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, a public meeting of the householders in every school district shall be held at a time and place to be fixed by .the Board, and publicly notified at least fourteen days previously. At such meeting a chairman shall be chosen, and tho committee for the preceding year shall give a full report ©f its proceedings, and thereupon the electors present shall proceed to elect by ballot, as hereinafter provided, a new committee for the then current year of seven persons resident within the district, and may re-elect all or an}' of the persons going out of office to be members of such new committee, Every committee so appointed shall hold office until the appointment of its successors, and, if any vacancy shall occur by death or otherwise thau by effluxion of time in any committee, tho remaining members of tho committee shall elect a qualified person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies. At every meeting convened and held for the election of a committee, the chairman having a deliberative vote shall also have a casting vote. 65. At every election for a school committee every voter Khali be entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of the committee to be elected, and may give all such votes to one; candidate, or may distribute them among the candidates, as he thinks fit.

' , The places of meeting are—- ■ For Thornclon District The schoolroom, Syduey-street For Terrace District—The schoolroom, the Terrace For, To Arc District—The schoolroom, Ghuz-nee-strcet. For, Mount-Cook District—The,Mount Cook Boys’ school, Taranaki-stroet. SCHEDULE. Thoundon PiaTIUCT. All that portion of the city of "Wellington lying towards the north of a lino running from tho southern boundary of section No. 621 along the centre of Tinakori-road, Glen-bervie-terrace, Sydney, Museum, and Bowen streets; thonco from the end of Bowon-street along the southern side of the fence round the Government Buildings to the sea. Temiacjs Distmot. All that portion of the city of "Wellington lying between the southern boundary of Thorudou District and a continued line through the centre of tho road from Upland Farm through tho centre of Mount-street, Wellingtou-terface, Church-stroot,theasuthern portion of Boulcott-atroet, Willis-atreet to the northern end of section No. 205, and thenoo to tho sea at right angles to Willis-street. ■ . ' Te Ano Distmot. ■ All that portion of the city of Wellington lying between the southern boundary of Ter-, race District, and a continued line from the southern corner of- section No; 55 ; thence along the south-east-boundary of same section to the centre of Thomson-street, and along the centre of Thomson,-Webb,-and Cuba streets to tho sea. ■. . - Mount Cook Distuict. .All the other portion of the city of Wellington. By order of the Board. Robert Lee, . Secretary. ‘IJNIVBRSITY OF NEW Zll ALAND A PRIZE of the value of Ten Founds (£10), to ba given in books, is hereby offered for competition, under a deed of gift from his Excellency "Sir G. F. Bowon, for the best English Essay on ■ “ The Norman Conqprest: its Effects on the Subsequent Developments of English Institutions,” Competition open to all matriculated .students of the University, not being graduates. Essays to bo sent iu to tho Registrar of the University, Christchurch, before December 31, 1878; with, a motto prefixed, accompanied by a paper or envelope, sealed up, with the same motto outside, and the name and address of the candidate written inside. ' For fuller information see Regulations iu University Calendar. ; HENRY JOHN TANCRED, , Chancellor. ; Christchurch, March 28,1378.

Dr. WAUGH’S CELEBRATED BAKING V 0 W D E R IS THE BEST. To lie had retail from all respectable Storekeepers throughout the colony,' and wholesale from WILLIAM DAVIES, Sole Peophxbtob and Manopaciubeb, Goulbourn, N.S.W. :