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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5662, 23 May 1879, Page 5

In article on life assurance the S.M, Herald says :—“The very life and soul of insurance institutions consists in getting new business ; bat may not this spirit of competition and rivtalry be carried too far ? The more such inI stitutious are multiplied, the greater will be the competition, and though the axiom of mercantile men may be perfectly true that ‘ competition is tho soul of business,' it should be remembered that the principle of life assurance involves more than ordinary business The more the aggregate contributions of the people are wasted on the machinery of competition, the greater is the public loss. If the principle of insurance means anything, it means provision against indigence. The effects of indigence fall partly upon private charity, but much more upon the State, because the' State has to provide asylums, hospitals, infirmaries, orphanages, benevolent and other institutions for the indigent at the general public expense. If it be true that ‘prevention is better than cure,' why should not the State provide a great National Insurance Society under which all would be protected and none injured. Such a plan would at least save the waste of competition.” Holloway's Pills. —The Grand Secret. With the variable temperature of this country, ill-health will creep in unless the blood from time to time be purified, and noxious matters be expelled from the body. In this the public may be its own physician. Holloways Pills may be purchased at a trifling cost; instructions for taking them will be furnished with the Pills, and a little attention, with few instructions, will enable persons to keep themselves in health un der very trying circumstances. These Pills act as alteratives, tonics, and aperients. Holloway’s medicine should be ready for instant administration when the slightest symptom gives warning of approaching indisposition. advice (to Mothers I—Are you broken in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately'. It is perfectly harm less and pleasant to taste, it produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes “as bright as a button." It soothes the child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or othercauses. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is sold by medicine dealers everywhere at Is. l.Jd. per bottle. Manufactured at 403 Oxfordstreet. London.—Advt. FLOIIILINE !—FoH THE TEETH AND BREATH.— A few drops of the liquid '* Floriline ’■ sprinkled on a wet tooth-brush produces a pleasant lather, which •thoroughly cleanses the -teeth from all parasites of impurities, hardens the gump, prevents tartar, stops decay, gives to the teeth a peculiar pearly whiteness, and a delightful fragrance to tho breath. It remover all unpleasant odour arising from decayed teeth of tobacco smoke. “The Fragrant Floriline,” being composed in part of honey and sweet herbs, is delicious to the taste, and the greatest toilet discovery of tho age. Price 2s. 6d., of all Chemists and Perfumers, Prepared by Henry C. Gallup, 49 Oxford-street Loudon—[Advt.J] '

Meetings, &c. GTON ATHENAEUM. •SPECIAL MEETING ON THE 30th MAY, at 8 p.in. BUSINESS : Proposed addition to rules—- “ That questions may be determined at any general or special general meeting of the subscribers by ballot, and that the time for taking the ballot may be extended so as to allow all subscribers resident in Wellington to record their votes.” H. F. LOGAN. Hon. Secretary. ■^TELLINGTON ATHENiEUM. GENERAL MEETING ON, FRIDAY, 30 th MAY, BUSINESS : Annual report Election of committee. H. E. LOGAN, Hon. Secretary. In Bankruptcy IN. THE SUPREME COURT OP NEW ZEALAND, WELLINGTON DISTRICT. IN THE MATTER OF THE DEBTORS , , AND CREDITORS ACT, 1876, and the DEBTORS AND CREDITORS ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1878, And Of JAMES POLLAS, of the City of Wellington, Storekeeper, a debtor. NOTICE is hereby given that the abovenamed James Pollas did on the 22nd day of May, 1879, file in the Supreme Court at Wellington a deed of arrangement and composition, dated the 21st day of May, 1879, and made between the said James Pollas of the first part, Houston Francis Logan, of the said City of Wellington, storekeeper, of the second part ; and all the creditors of the said James Pollas of the third part ; and that a meeting of creditors of . the said James Pollas is hereby summoned tor MONDAY, the ninth day of JUNE, 1879, at the Supreme Court House, Lambton-quay, Wellington, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of assenting to the said deed. MOOR HOUSE, EDWARDS, & CUTTEN, Solicitors for the Arranging Debtor. IN THE SUPREME COURT OP NEW ZEALAND, WELLINGTON DISTRICT. IN THE MATTER OF THE DEBTORS AND CREDITORS ACT, 1876, And Of the Bankruptcy of JOHN DISHBR, of the Tauera, Storekeeper, a Debtor. THIS is to notify that John Disher, of the Tauern, Storekeeper, has this day filed a statement that he is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors. The first meeting of creditors to be held at the Court House, Wellington, at 11 o'clock a.m. on the 30th day of May, 1879. Dated this 19th day of May, 1879. - ALEX. S. ALLAN, Registrar of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Tbatekb and Son, Agents for Arthur R. Bunny, Solicitor, Masterton.