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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 417, 7 October 1876, Page 3

The Power of Figures. —A benevolent employer intending to gi> e a clever young man £lOOO for five years’ service, proposed to do so by beginning with a £lOO a year, and raising the clerk’s salary £5O per annum to the end of the term. Thus he proposed to give him £lOO, £l5O £2OO, £250, £3OO. The young man who was indeed wide awake for himself, if not for his-master, begged that the increase in his salary should be £25 every half year. Of course, this proposition was was readily accepted, for it was assumed that the final result would be the same. This arrangement, in fact, secured him ten payments, which were respectively £5O. £75, £lOO, £125, £l5O, £175, £2OO, £225, £250, £27s—total, £1625, instead of £lOOO. The power of figures is the secret of the money-lender’s art.

New Advertisements. FOR NAPIER. rplEs-s.JANE DOUGLAS Capt. Fbazeb Will steam for the above Port This Evening, at 8 o’clock. For freight or passage, apply to GRAHAM & CO., 1039 Agents. NOTICE. The shop win be open this evenING, from 6 to 8 o’clock. 1049 Wm. ADAIR. Turanganui District Highway Board. NOTICE is hereby given that the Assessment Roll for the Turanganui Highway District is now prepared and open for inspection at Mullooly’s Hotel, Tologa Bay ; and that objections thereto will be heard, and determined, by the Board, at noon on TUESDAY, the 7th day of November, prox. allan McDonald, Chairman, November 6th, 1876. 1048 AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. Special Notice. T\T R - w. A. THOMSON Travelling Agent and Lecturer to the Australian Mutual Provident - Society is in Gisborne, and intends lecturing through the districts in Poverty Bay, advocating th< superior merits of the mutual system of Life Assurance. 24,000 Policies in force assuring £10,000,000 sterling. Annual Revenue, £425,000. Accumulated Funds exceed one million and three quarters sterling—including New Zealand debentures, £168,084. 1045 SALE. To Butchers and Others. THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell, by public auction, at Steggall’s Yards, Makaraka, ON WEDNESDAY NEXT, October 11, at noon, I 10 Head Fat Cattle, and a lot of Store Cattle & Horses. M. HALL, 1010 Auctioneer.