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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 303, 6 December 1884, Page 1

r ”\v aka m ao,u 18 PUBLISHED FOR THE EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, PARATENE NGATA On tho First Mid Thud FRIDAY ot every month at the TELEPHONE PRINTING OFFICE, Advxstmbmlntb Tbasiutio Gutib.

Business Notices. CENTRAL BAKERY. Henry fisher announces that having commenced business in those Control Premises in Gia.l--stone Road, ho la now enabled to produce Magnificent Broad, Confectionery, Pies r.f every description, Tartlets, of the first quality. Orders for hot Pies for Suppers promptly attended to. No pains or expense will bo spared to render this Bakerv tho BEST IN TOWN. THE COOK COUNTY BUILDING SOCIETY (PERMANENT). UA S commenced business. Offices Lowe Street, Investors should obtain copies of Rules. Investment Shares. Class A, £5 each, paid in full. Class D, of value of £25, payable 4s per month. Enquire further particulars rom A. W. CROFT, 42 Managing Director. GISBORNE CARRIAGE AND SPRING FACTORY, THE undersigned is Se’Jins-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, WheelbaiT jws, Double and Single Ploughs. GEO. HUMPHREYS, Gladstone Road and Peal Street, Gisborne 8S __ IN BANKRUPTCY. In the Matter of “ The Bankruptcy Act, 1883.” rOHE following Forms can be _L application at this office. No. 2. Ordinary Declaration in Proof of Debt. No. 3. Declaration in Proof of Debt duo to Firm or Company. No. 4. Form of Proxy. No. 8. Declaration ol Bankrupt of Assets and Liabilities, drc. No. 9. Statement of Bankrupt. 2007 O Stand this Season -JL nt KAITERATAHI, -• r 55 The Thoroughbred Stallion NEW CHUM. New Chum is by Traducer, dam Fair Lass, by Riddlesworth ; Fair Wave. Fair Wave was one of the grandest Arab mares ever imported into New Zealand. Terms: £2 10s each mare ; guarantee, £3 10a; two or more mares, the property of the same owner, as by agreement. Paddocking, with plenty of grass and water, free for one mohth, after which 3s 6d 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, the fee will be returned. All taken, but no responsibility incurred. A. DEVERY, 639 Kaiteratahi. m utual provl DENT SOCIETY.

Established 1849. Tho oldest Mutual Life Office In Australia Now 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-Chatanan)f A. De B. Brandon, Esq. ; ’ Charles J. Johnston, Esq.. M.H.R.; the Hon. Morgan S. Grace. M.D., M.L.C. 1 Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemp, M.R.C.B. (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 tho 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. Tho 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 lust 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 rale of expenditure is on the average 18 per cent, less than the other Australian Mutual Life Offices, |ind less than any other Life Assurance Institution either in Europe or America during a corresponding amount of New Business. UN PARALLELED ACCUMULATION OF FUNDS.—Ten years ago the Society, while 69th on tho 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 tho Resident Secretary, or from any of the Society’s Agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. F. J. PIE s SSE, , Gisbome Agent.

Don’t Dio in Tho HousoRou g h on Rats ” clears out rata, mice beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers, 7£d. The New Zealand Drug Company, General A ents.