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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 284, 13 November 1884, Page 1

rjj li yy ak a u-i ! 18 PUBLISHED FOR THE EDITOR AND PRQPRIETOR, PARATENE NGATA On the First and Third FRIDAY of every month at the TELEPHONE PRINTING OFFICE; ADVBRTISBSH.HTB TbMSUTRO &BATIS.

Business Notices. CENTRAL BAKERY. Henry fisher aiiuounuca that having commenced business in those Central Premises in Gladstone Road, he h 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. fm THE COOK COUNTY BUILDING SOCIETY (PERMANENT). HA 3 commenced business. Offices ’ Lowe. Street, Investors should obtain copies of Rules. Investment Shares, Class A, £5 each, paid in full. Class B, of value of £25, payable 4s per month. Enquire further particulars rora A. W. CROFT, 42 Managing Director. GISBORNE CARRIAGE AND SPRING FACTORY. THE undersigned is Selling-off the under] signed Goods cheap. No reasonable offer refused:— 3 Double-seated Buggies, 2 Single-seated Buggies (with or without hood), 1 Waggonette, 4 Spring Carts, 1 Express Waggon, Bullock and Horse Drays, Wheelbarrows, Double and Single Ploughs. GEO. HUMPHREYS, Gladstone Road and Peel Street, Gisborne l 88 IN BANKRUPTCY. In the Matter of “ The Bankruptcy Act, 1883.” THE following Forms can be application at this office. No. 2. Ordinary Declaration in Proof of Debt. No. 3. Declaration in Proof of Debt due to Firm or Company. No. 4. Form of Proxy. No. 8. Declaration of Bankrupt of Assets and Liabilities, &c. No. 9. Statement of Bankrupt. 200? r P O Stand this Season oBCsII KAITERATAHI, ~ The Thoroughbred Stallion NEW CHUM. New Chum is by Traducer, dam Fair Lass, by Riddlesworth ; grand-dam Fair Wave, Fair Wave was one of the grandest Arab mares ever imported into New Zealand. Terms: £2 10s each mare ; guarantee, £3 10s; two or more mares, the property of the same owner, as by agreement. Paddocking, with plenty of grass and water, free for one month, after which 2s 6d per week will be charged. All f.*es, whether guarantee or otherwise, td be paid before removal of mares. In cases of guarantee, and mares not proving in foal, the fee will be returned. All taken, but no responsibility incurred. A. DEVERY, 630 Kaiteratahi.

Australian mutual provl DENT 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 Qon. Sir William Fitzherbert. K.C.M.G., M.L.C. (Deputv-Chairman); A. Deß. 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 Offiae 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 *s 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.

Don’t Dio in Tho House. Rou g h on Rats ” clears out rats, mice beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flics, ants, insects, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers, 7sd. The New Zealand Drug Company, General A ents.