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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 302, 5 December 1884, Page 1

T" \V A,;A M AOI IB PUBLISHED FOR THE EDITOR AND FROrBIETOB, PABATENE NGATA On tho Firrt and Third FRIDAY of every month at tho TELEPHONE PRINTING OFTICE; ArivEnTUßSusrs Tmirsunn Gmiu.i

Business Notices. i CENTRAL Henry fisher announces that having commenced 1 business in those Central Premiiee in GM--3 stone Road, he is now enabled to produce I 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 ho spared to render this Bakery the BEST IN TOWN. ’ RM) THE COOK COUNTY BUILDING SOCIETY (PERMANENT). ■g- A 8 commenced bueiness. Offices LOWS SIBHKT, Investor, ehonld obtain oople. ol Hu!.., Investment Shares, Class A, £5 each, paid in lull. Close I), of value of £26, payable 4» per mouth. Enquire further particulars ram A. W. CROFT, Managing Director. GISBORNE CARRIAGE AND SPRING FACTORY. THE undersigned is Solh’ng-oCf thcunder signed Goods eh-ap. No reasonable offw I 3 Doublo-sea’e.l Buggies, 2 Single-seated Baggies (with or without hood), 1 Waggonette, 4 Spring Carts, 1 Express Waggon, Bullock and Horse Drays, Wheelbarrows, Double and Single Ploughs. GEO. HUMPHREYS, Road and Peel Street, Gisborne IN BANKRUPTCY. In the Matter of “ The Bankruptcy Act, 1883.” rpHE follow ing Forms can be .1. application at this office. No. 2. Ordinary Declaration in Proof of licbt. No. 3. Declaration in Proof of Debt due to Firm or Company. No, 4. Form ot Proxy. No. s, Declaration ol Bankrupt of Assets and Liabilities, dtv. No. 9. Statement of Bankrupt. •2007 F’ll O Stand this Season fygSßfcf kaitebatahi, Thoroughbred Stallion NEW CHUM. New Chum is by Tradtwer, dam Fair Lass, by Riddlceworth; grand-dam Fair Wave. Fair Wave was one of tiio grandest Arab mares ever imported into Now Zealand. Terms: £2 10s each mare; guarantee, £3 10s; two or more mares, the property of the same owner, as by agreement. Paddoeking, with plenty of grass and water, free for one month, after which 2s fid per week will be charged. All fees, whether guarantee or otherwise, to be paid before removal of mares. In cases of guarantee, and mares not proving in foal, tho foo will bo returned. All taken, but no responsibility incurred. A. DE VERY, Kaiteratahi. Xustbauan mutual prqVl J7X. DENT SOCIETY. Established 1849. The oldest Mutual Life Office In Australia New Zealand Branch i Head Office— Custom-house Quay, Wellington. Local Board of Directors: The Hon. Chas Johnson Fhanuyn, M.L.C. (Chairman), the Hon. Sir William Fitzherbert. K.C.M.G., M.L.C. (Deputy-Chairman); A. Do B. Bran, don, Esq.; Charles J. Johnston, Esq., M.H.R.; the Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D M.L.C. ’’

Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemn M.R.C.S. (England). P ’ °J THE QVINQUEN. NluM.—Poheics effected during the year 1884 will participate in the Quinquennial Division of Profits, to be ascertained as at the 31st Decern Im: r, 1884. The profit of tho current quinquennium has been recently accumulating at the rate of £200,000 per annum. r

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 hist 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 Jow, being only 9’5 per cent, of the total receipts of the year. This rate of expenditure iaon the average 18 per cent, less than tho 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. Ayrr P Txr?^ LLKLED ACCUMULATION , —J™ y««r» ago the Society, while 69th on the list of British Offices in point of awi, was 35th in respect of Funds. It now—January, 1884-stands 4th, only three offices iu 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 of proposal, and alt other information may he 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. Rough on Pous” clears out rats, mice beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, inseots, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers, 7Jd. The New Zealand Drug Company, General A ento.