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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 192, 1 August 1874, Page 2

Govebnment Insubance and Annuities Bill. —The Premier moved the second reading, and explained the provisions of this bill. The second clause repeals Acts of 1869 and 1870 ; clause 15 enables married women to contract as if sole, nnd dispose of interest in contracts by will; clause 20 makes life annuities free from taxes; clause 26 provides for loans on policies; clause 27 makes provision for arbitration in disputes between the annuitant or his kin and the Commissioner; clause 41 provides for annual accounts being laid before Parliament; clauses 42, 43, and 44 provide for an actuarial investigation every five years and the bringing up of a statement and report; 45, the last clause, provides for a surplus of funds divisible among policy holders. This last clause is being hedged round with every kind of precaution to make its operation beneficial, and places the whole under the control, of the House. It was read a second time and ordered to be committed

Holloway's Ointment and PilU.—Rheumfttism and Neuralgia.-Though the former disease remorselessly the robust, and tho latter ruthlessly relucts te victims from tho weak and de mate the same medical treatment will infalh .Y « -Amnlaints After the affected parte nave been diligently fomented with hot bnne, and tho Skin has been dried, HoUoway’. Om inent must we land prcservingly bo a few minutes twice a day, and h j be taken according to the pnuhd d n c..on. wrapped round each box of his Both Ointment and Pills an, instructions designed for the P«hlw and no invalid, who attentively reads them, can now be at any loss to doctor himself sue

oessfully. The Home News “The Messrs of the Haymarket, are just on ™tot of shipping for Wellington, New P Zi ala)’'h a service of plate designed and manufactured to the order of certain rnride- 13 * n Dunedin, for presentation to Mm Julius Vogel. The service consists ot a massive centrepiece and six stands. The centrepiece bears a suitable inscription, testifying to the great worth and ability of Mr. Vogel, and to the estimation in which he is held by the donors. The design is of the Renaissance of Queen Anne, so that New Zealand will be in possession of a specimen of the only purely English style of plate ornamentation. The set is exceedingly handsome, and docs great credit to the firm by whom it has been presented.” _ .

Intebcolonial reciprocity in trade is thus emphatically written upon by a correspondent of the Dunedin Star: — “ Reciprocity is no new thing : It has for years worked well between Canada and the United States; it existed in the Germanic Confederation (Zollverein) ; and the commercial treaty with Franco was nothing but an act of reciprocity. For these colonics, situated as they are, to tax each other’s products, is about as absurd as it would he for each province of New Zealand to maintain hostile tariffs towards each other. In about half-a-dozen years the colonies will be as closely united by the aid of steam and telegraph as the various provinces of New Zealand were about a dozen years ago. There is no doubt that free trade, in its wides sense, is most desirable, but I see no of accomplishing this except by conserv ing the public estate, and waiting on for some years; meanwhile, on the principle that ‘half a loaf is better than none,’ we should he satisfied with free trade with the Australian Colonies. There is no doubt there are difficulties in arranging the matter, but should the Premier succeed in overcoming them all, he w ill have carved for himself a niche in the temple iof fame far beyond the most sanguine results of his immigration and public works schemes. With extensive and profitable markets opened up to our productions, public w r orks and immigration may be lef left to take care of themselves.”