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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 45, 21 January 1884, Page 4

County Council Notices, COOK COUNTY; is hereby given that it is the intention of the Cook County Council to divert a portion of the Gisborne-Wairoa Road, and for that purpose to close a portion of the said road lying between Sections 87 and 126, and Section 80, Patutahi Survey District, and to exchange with the owners of the adjoining sections the land taken for a road, and that now closed. Dsscbiption of the Road to sk Closed and or the Land to be Exchanged. All that parcel of land in our Provincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods and 19 perches, more or less, situated in the Patutahi Survey District, in Cook County, and being a line of road 100 links wide, lying between Sections Nos. 87 and 126, and Section No. 90. Commencing on the South-eastern boundary of Section 126, at a distance of 670 links, or thereabouts, from its South-eastern angle. Bounded towards the North-east generally by lines 2,080’5 links and 447 links, respectively, towards the East by lines 390'8 links and 94'5 links, respectively ; and towards the South-east by lines 615 links and 1,496'5 links, respectively, to the oommeno-ing-point, be all the aforesaid linkages more or lees, as the same is delineated on plan No. 3,631, deposited in the Survey Office at Auckland, copies of which plans may be seen at the office of the Cook County Council, Lowe Street, Gisborne, and at the office of the Patutahi Road Board. JOHN WARREN, County Clerk. Gisborne, 19th December, 1883. 787 Miscellaneous. A USTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. Established 1849. The oldest Mutual Life Office in Australia, New Zealand Branch : Head Office— Custom-house Quay, Wellington, Local Board of Directors : The Hon. Chas. Johnson Pharazyn, M.L.C. (Chairman); the Hon. Sir William Fitzherbert, K.C.M.G., M.L.C. (Deputy-Chairman); A. De B. Brandon, Esq. ; Charles J, Johnston, Esq., M.H.R,; the Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D., M.L.C. Medical Officer; Dr, W, G, Kemp, M.R.C.S. (England), LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM.—PoIicies effected during the year 1884 will participate in the Quinquennial Division of Profits, to be ascertained as at the 31st December, 1884. The profit of the current quinquennium has been recently accumulating at the rate of £200,000 pet annum. ANNUAL DIVISION OF PROFIT.The profits of the Society are to be divided annually after the 31st December, 1884. The Invested Funds exceed £4,300,000; the Annual Income is upwards of £850,000 ; the Society has more than 50,000 policies in force, assuring upwards of £18,000,000; during the last thirty-four years the Society has paid for claims and matured endowments £1,500,000. The Society has divided among its members cash bonuses amounting to upwards of £916,000, yielding reversionary bonuses exceeding two millions. NEW BUSINESS.—The New Business of the last five years has exceeded Two Millions per annum, a larger amount annually than has ever been transacted by any other Life Office in the British Dominions, The coat of management, including commission, is unusually low, being only 9’5 per cent, of the total receipts of the year. This rate of expenditure is on the average 18 per cent, less than the other Australian Mutual Life Offices, and less than any other Life Assurance Institution either in Europe or America during a corresponding amount of New Business. UNPARALLELED ACCUMULATION OF FUNDS.—Ten years ago the Society, while 69th on the list of British Offices In point of age, was 85th in respect of Funds, It now—January. 1884—stands 4th, only three offices In Great Britain—established respectively in 1815, 1823, and 1825—being above it. The accumulated funds now exceed four millions three hundred thousand pounds sterling. Prospectuses, forms of proposal, and all other information maybe obtained on application to the Resident Secretary, or from any of the Society’s Agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. F. J. PIESSE, Gisborne Agent, JpRASER, AND QO. HORSE SALES "EVERY SATURDAY, MASONIC STABLES, —At 2— CATTLE SALES— Makabaka weekly, TUESDAY— September 25 November 6 October 2 ~13 ~ 9 ~20 16 „ 27 ~ 23 December 4 „ 30 „ 11 » 18 25 Waerenga-a-hika, fortnightly, WEDNESDAY— September 27 November 8 October 11 „ 22 ~ 25 December 6 December 20. SALES FOR Wool, Hides, Sheepskins and Tallow, the First Tuesday in every Month, at Makaraka 887 CARTING! CARTING ! I S. DOLEMAN BEGS to anuonnee that he is at all times prepared to Remove Furniture in Spring Vans. General Carting done on the shortest notice in Town or Conntry. Goods arriving by the Steamers punctually attended to. Gravel from the Beach supplied on most Reasonable Terms. 838 ‘‘Bough 031 Bats” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, gophers, jack-rabbits. 74d. Druggists. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents.