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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5331, 29 April 1878, Page 1

Books,- &cL: Y; O. X & BLA I , 'B. , . Lambton-qoat, Wellington. NEW .'BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. Cherry Ripe, by. author!of Comm’ thro’:the Rye;(Australiau;ecUtion); : ■ American Senator, by Anthony Trollope Vanity Fair, by Thackeray (popular edition) Illustrated Spurgeon’s Sword and Trowel, 1877 •, Tennyson’s' works (now cheap -edition) vola, 3,4, 5, e, 7 : ■ ■ • : Molesworth and Hurst’s Engineers’‘Pocket Book' : Young Ladies’ Journal, new volume Dickens’s works - (household edition); Christ- : mas books, cloth and sewed Curwen’a, Laws of New- Zealand, Index to,brought; down to. January, TB7S New. Zealand State Porests, by-Mon?. T.ccoy ■ - Mr. Rees' book,. Sir Gilbert .Leigh: -s.V i Black’s new novel, Green Pastures-and Pic? i; cadilly ’ •.. Burnaby’s On Horseback thro’ Asia Minor ■;, Egypt As itls/by ‘J. MoCoan/,, •! . .... NEW CHEAP NOVELS.'' This Son of Vulcan,! authors of Ready Money !- ■ 'Mortiboy■ ■: ! - • -‘-i--(Bound to Win, by Hawley Smart - , 1 ' ■Cecile,,by Hawley. Smart -v -• •••■ - iQakahot, Castle, by Henry .Kingsley ■ •' Bound to, the Wheel, by John Saunders a --1 Grey Waterman's .Maze, by ;John Saunders - - i I In this department Messrs. Lyon and Blair have a Very )arge _ assortment-by-Miss Braddon, Wilkie-Collins,“Whyte (.Melville, &o„ &c„ &c. ■' i NEW SUPPLIES OP STANDARD ! ; WORKS. Smiles’ works—Self Help, Character, Thrift/ -Industrial Biographies, Boys’ Voyage . Kinglake’a Crimea' (cabinet edition),. 0 vols . . Miss Yonge’s novels ' . ' 1 , . “ Mrs.- Wood’s novels 1 ’■ ' Thackeray’s ’ novels ' ; ■ . Trollope's novels : - Lord Lytloh’s novels- - , Mr. Alexander’s novels ; Rhoda Broughton's novels Chatto and VVlndus' Standard Library,including, in one. volume/ the' complete . works , of: Charles ’ Lamb, Longfellow, Byron, Dean Swift, Coleman-the-younger, Bret Harte, -Mark Twain, Artemus Ward, &c.', &o. Large and well-selected stock of Prizes and Toy Books for Children. LYON AND BLAIIi, Wholesale -and Retail' Booksellers, - Stationers,- and Stbasi Pbintebs, ' Lambton-quav, Wellington. , ,

MOW; BEADY, ILLUSTRATED, NEW .ZEALAND HERALD 1 for APRIL. Contains Views of Kaiapoi; Province of -Canterbury; Grejinouth; West’Coast; St. Joseph’s Convent, Dunedin ; St; Paul’s Church, Christchurch ; The Last Glimpse 'of Homo ; and numerous other interesting- outs. - Price Sixpence.: To be had of Mr. Jno. Watt, Willis-; street and Lambton-quay, and all booksellers P DAN OF THE CITY OF WELDINGTON. i : For Sale at the'Office of thiapaper, the most complete PD VN of the City of Wellington yet; published, compiled by Mr, C._ O’Neill, C.E., and architect. . Every section of land is'humbered, and: the distance to■ each locality from the "Post .Office; is marked in quarter-mile circles. , Several useful items of information , are given, viz.; area of the 1 city,- plantation, recreation, quarry, and railway reserves," building regulation distribtafdist of. mavbrs for the past elghc-yeaTs,proposed reclamation - at •Te' Arc, line of tramway through the city; &o. Only a feuisCopies now remain on hand. Price, One Shilling. . .. '■ : > ■■ -1 r; ■ ; Public Companies THE EQUITABLE BUILDING: AND INVESTMENT COMPANY- i OF WELLINGTON IMPORTANT NOTICE. This Company is allo'vying interest, on de-: posits at the following rates : —■ ; ; ■ At call, 6 per cent, per annum i For 3 months, 6J do do .. For G or 12 months, 7 do do By order of the Board of Directors. . J. H. OTTO SCHWARTZ, ... . . -Secretary. - NEW ZEALAND , Loan & mercantile agency co. (LIMITED), .Capital ... - .:. £3,000,000. The Company makes : advances on stations, on stock, on growing clips ’of wool, and on other produce and. receives -consignments of wool, hemp, grain, tallow,' preserved meats, leather; horns, &0., for sale in London on commission at rates which may.be learned on application at the company’s office. ; W. H. TRAPP, . . Pro Agent, Offices and Stoees ; Custom House-quay, (Next PUmmer’a Wharf). The Scottish and new, zea- : ' LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, ' LIMITED. ' .; . Capital— £soo,ooo. This Company is prepared to make Advances to farmers, and others on freehold cr leasehold properties at .tho.Aowest Current Rates of Intere'st, ’and. to arrange for repayment by instalments if desired. • Forms and particulars may be obtained at the Company’s Head Office, Esk-street, Invercargill or by application to the undersigned. ■ r MURRAY, COMMON, & CO., ' ■ . Agents in Wellington,

• A USTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVE. DENT SOCIETY., ... Established in the'year; 1849. FOR MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, NEW ZEALAND BRANCH;’; ■ HEAD OFFIC E—W ELLIN GTON. The Annual Revenue exceeds £470,000. TheAccumuhitedFundhoWexceeda£2,ooo,ooo. 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 Now Business for the year 1876 was 4559 Policies, assuring £1,662,575, 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. ■ ■ : The annual report, prospectuses,-.and proposal forms may be had (or will be sent post free),: on application to the Branch Office, fit to any of the Society’s Agents. ... , , EDWARD W. LOWE, • Resident Secretary.

'OKXA INSURANCE COMPANY. TIRE AND MARINE, • . ESTABLISnitD 1849.' '.r CAPITAL ... £200,000 Hoad Office : Melbourne.' Insurance of every description- effected at lowest current rates, 1 and claims promptly met. Losses can be made payable in any part of New Zealand or the Australian, colonies. 1 ' ! V , 11 . ; DEVIN-& CO.,' Agents. rr'RANSATLANTIQ FIRE INSURANCE JL COMPANY; OF HAMBURG.-■ THE above Company is prepared to accept risks in town and country at lowest cnrrent- : : INSURANCE COMPANY. All 'classes cf -FIBB :I RISKS in towiror" country taken at current rates. rates. WIIITTEM,'NICHOLSON, &-CO., - Agents. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent.