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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 201, 5 August 1884, Page 4

~ Business Notices. FOB SALE AT rilE WHARF STEAM SAW MILLS: KAURI TIMBER PALINGS WHITE PINE SHINGI.ES DOORS BLOCKS SASHES DRAIN PIPES MOULDINGS MANTLE PIECES SKIRTING POSTS ARCHITRAVES TRUSSES, Shop Sashes, Fronts,’ Sash Frames, Door Jambs, and all descriptions of Joiners’ Work made at the shortest notice. J. R. MORGAN AND CO. 855 THE GISBORNE DISCOUNT CO (Limited), Incorporated under the Joint ock Com* panics’ Acts, Are Prepared to Negotiate Loans, and to Make Certain Advances, For forms of application and particulars apply to ALFRED W. CROFT, 814 Manager, Lowe Street, CENTRAL BAKERY. Henry fisher announces that having commenced business in those Central Premises in Gladstone Road, he is now enabled to produce Magnificent Bread, Confectionery, Pies of every description, Tartlets, &c„ of the first quality. Orders for hot Pies for Suppers promptly attended to. No pains or expense will be spared to render this Bakery the BEST IN TOWN. 636 Australian 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 per 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 cost 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 35th 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, fo xs of proposal, and all other information may be 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, ° TIC E J rpHE JOBBING DEPARTMENT is being supplied with a Choice Assortment of New Type, and work of all kinds will be turned out in a superior style at reasonable rates. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. MR. F. PARKER begs to notify that he has taken over delivery of our papers to town subscribers from Mr. P. Lange, as from the Ist instant, and will collect subscriptions fortnightly as from that date, unless otherwise arranged. Terms of subscription—6s. per quarter, cash in advance. 7s. quarter, booked. 2018 MEDICINE# PRICE HALF A CROWN Established in Australia in 1864. WESTON’S WIZARD OIL haa the power to distribute itself over every part of the body internally as well as externally, curing the most inveterate cases of tumors, ulcers, scrofula, diseased liver, piles, swellings, wounds, etc., etc. Flics and. Bugs, Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants bed-bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, gophers, jack-rabbits. 7Ad. Druggists. The New Zealand Drug Company, General Agents.