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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5404, 23 July 1878, Page 1

Public Companies Australian mutual DENT SOCIETY. PRO VIEstablished is tub Yeah 1819. For Life Assurance on the'Mutual Principle. New Zealand Branch : Head Office Wellington. Local Board of Directors : The Hon. C. J. Pharas;yn, M.L.C., Chairman, The Hon. Sir W. Fiizuerbert, 1C.0.M.G. and M.H.R., Deputy-chairman, • - A de B. Brandon, Esq., M.H.E., George Hunter, Esq., M.H.R., and The Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D. and M.L.C. ' Invested,Funds Annual Income Amount Assured Claims Paid ... Policies in Force ... £2,300.000 550.000 .... 12,000,000 850.000 31,000 LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM. Sixth Division of Profits., The whole of the profits are divided amongst the assured, and bonuses to the amount of £910,000 have already been allotted. • Tile last division of profits took place in 1874, and the cash surplus then divided amounted to £235,000, giving additions to policies averaging £3 per cent, per annum on the sum assured. ■ The bonuses paid on policies becoming claims have varied from £ls per cent, on the sum assured for a policy of five years' standing to £l5O per cent, for one of twenty-fiveyears’ duration. Bonuses become vested additions to policies when they have been full five years in force. - Tho profits realised during the last five years will be ascertained and divided as at 31st December next, and all policies issued on or before that date will be entitled to participate in the profits of quinquennium. Prospectuses, forma of proposals, and all in-, formation may be obtained from the Branch Office, Wellington, or from any of tho Society’s agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary Transatlantic fire insurance COMPANY OF HAMBURG. THE above Company is prepared to accept risks in town and country at lowest current rat< WHITTEM, NICHOLSON, &’ CO., Agents, INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE" AND MARINE. ’ Established 1819. OAI’ITAL ...£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. Globe marine insurance company (LIMITED.! CAPITAL .... ... £500,000. . , Head Office : London. - 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 & CO., Agents. Business Notices Jp H O T O G R A P H Y. FOR A FEW DAYS ONLY. BURTON BR O T HERS (Of Dunedin), Are prepared to execute in first-cliss style all kinds of Out-door Photography. A large portfolio of views on hand, consisting of the lakes of Otago, Dunedin, the Christchurch and Hokitika road, and many more too numerous to mention. Note the address:— •v. BENNETT’S COMMERCIAL 7 T OTEL. OH AS. SPENCER, .Agent. DWA R P J A O K 3 O N, WHOLESALE SADDLER - . AND 'SADDLERS’ IRONMONGER, Comer of Brandon and Featherston streets, P ’Wellington. ’ LFR E D TY E R, L NGAHAUKANOA TEAM WOOL-SCOURING' WORKS, lash buyer of Wool, Hides, Sheepskins, and low. Also a large assortment of first-class ills always on hand. iVool, locks,' and pieces sorted, scoured, :en delivery of in Wellington, and returned agents in town for Id. per lb, scoured weight. IE N B Y- W ALT O N’S STEAM . WOOL SCOURING TABLISHMENT & FELLMONGERY, mcragie, Ngahauranga Line, Wellington. * Buyer <f Wool, Hides, Tallow, and Sheepskins. RE LX MIN ARY NOTICE. GREAT CLEARING SALE. OF IRONMONGERY. M. MqOBEDIE, General and Furnishing Ironmonger, Lambton-quay (Opposite the Theatre Royal), BEGS to announce that in consequence of his having purchased those large commodious premises known as the Old Wellington Club, where ho intends in future (after the necessary alterations have been completed) to carry on his business, to avoid the danger of damage and breakage in the removal of his largo and valuable stock, he has determined upon offering it to the public ait a largo reduction. The ENTIRE STOCK is now being EE-MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES and at prices which cannot fail to attract attention.' The sale will only continue during tho time the alteration of the aforesaid premises is in progress, as oh completion the balance of stock must be removed at all risks. The attention therefore of parties about to furnish, builders, and others is called to this genuine sale. In order -to give additional facilities to customers who may bo unuahlo to make their purchases during the day M. M. has decided TO KEEP UIB PREMISES OPEN ' EACH EVENING TILL 8 O’CLOCK.' J 9- FIRST DAY—SATURDAY—the ‘ 18th MAY. -ffia Further particulars in future advertisements. ■ N.B.— M.M. is more particularly induced to take this step for the disposal of - his present stock, as Large Shipments are coming to hand, with which ho intends 'to open his new premises.