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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 299, 2 December 1884, Page 1

T K W AI:A M ac ' 1 IB PUBLISHED FOR THE EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, PARATENE NGATA On the First and Third FRIDAY of emy month at the TELEPHONE PRINTING OFFICE, AmTSKTISEMIA'TS Thaxsutid Gnms.'j

Business Notices, ' CENTRAL BAKER) Henry fisher announces that having comment•••<l I business in those Central P'-eniises in QU•(. ! stone Road, he is now enabled to prc lu.'o j Magnificent Bread, Confoctiouery, Pir» ••£ | every description, Tartlets, Au., of tho tiiat quality. Orders for hot Pies for Suppers promptly . attended to. No pains nr expense vflj be spared to render this Bakery the BEST IN TOWN. THE COOK (.'orXI'Y BUILDING SOCIETY (PERMANENT). HA S eornrnonood bu.iarw. Offices Lown S'.Bgiir, Invertor, should obtain oopioi, of Rules, Investment Shares, Class A, S 3 each, paid in full. Claw B, of value of CJS, payable 4» per month. Enquire furtlwi- partbmlars rom A. W. CROFT, Manattinq Director. GISBORNE CARRIAGE AND SPRING FACTORY. riTHE undcreignod is Selling-off the nnderl J., signed Goods eheap. No reasonable oner refused

3 Buggies, 2 Single-seated Buggies (with or without hood), 1 Waggonette, 4 Spring Carts, 1 Express Waggon, Bullock and Horse Drays, Wheelbarrows, Double ami Single Ploughs. GEO. HUMPHREYS, Gladstone Road and Peel Stretf, Gisborne as IN B ANKRUPTCY. In Ine Matter of “ The Bankruptcy Act, 18113. •• r pHE following Forms can he -L application at thia office. No. 2. Ordinary Declaration in Proof of Debt, No. 3. Declaration in Proof of Debt due to Firm or Como-ny. No. 4. Form ol Prjxy. No. 8. Doclaratio:i oi Bur.krupt of .A e . and Liabilities, ffre. No. ff. Statement of Bankrupt. 2007 r P O Stand this Sanson kaitebatahi, ... inejf t in. ,1 - The Thoroughbred Stallion NEW CHUM. New Chum is by Trailuccr, dam Fair Lass, by Riddlesworth; grand-dam Fair Wave. Fair Wave was one of the grandest Arab mares ever imported into Ngw Zealand. Perms: Xl2 10s each mare ; guarantee, £3 10s; two or more mures the property of tho same owner, as by agreement. I’addockrng, with plenty of grass and water, free for one month, after which 2s (Id pa- weak will be charged. All fees, whether guarantee or otherwise, to be paid before removal of mares. In cases of guarantee, end mares not proving in foal, the fee will be returned. Al! taken, but no responsibility incurred. A. DEVEKY, Kaiteratahi.

Australian ~ m utual pro Vi. DENT SOCIETY’. Established 1840. Tho oldest Mutual Life Office in Australia, New Zealand Brunch : Hoad Office— Custom-house Quay, Wellington, Local Board of Directors : The Hon. Chea, Johnson Pliarazyti, M.L.C. (Chairman) • tho Hon. Sir William Fitzhorbert, K.C.M.G., M.L.C. (Deputy-Chairman); A. De B. Bran“°u. Ksq. ; Charles J. Johnston, Esq., M.H.R.; the Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D., M.L.C. Dr. w. G. Kemp, M.R.C.S. (England), T,IE QUINQUEN. NlUM.—Policies 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 rote of £200,000 per annum. * ANNUAL DIVISION OF PROFIT.— The profits of the Society are to be divided annually after tho 31st December, 1884. The Invested Funds exceed £4,300,000; the Annual Income is upwards of £850,000 ■ tho Society has more than 50,000 policies iu force, assuring upwards of £18,000,000; during, the lust 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. Nh\V 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 Ofiiee iu the British Dominions. The cost of management, including commission, is tinustially low, being only 9'5 per cent, of the total receipts of the year. 'Phis rate of expenditure is on tho 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.

ACCUMULATION OF r UNDS.—-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 iu Great Britain—established respectively in 1815, 182.3, and 1825—being above it. The accumulated funds now exceed four millions, three hundred thousand pounds sterling. Prospectuses, fo 18 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 Die in Tho House. Rou g h on Rats ” clears out rats, mice beetles, roachex bed-bucs, moles.