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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 314, 25 December 1884, Page 1

rpE A 4_ AOf!l IS PUBLISHED FOR THE AND PROPRIETOR, TARA T E N E NGA T A On the First and Third FRIDAY of eve month at the TELEPHONE PRINTING OFFICE, Abvebtismoktb TaAsxnmn Gratis,

Business Notices. CENTRAL BA KERY 7 Henry fisher announces that having commenced I business iu those Central Premises in Gla«L • stone Road, he is now enabled to produce ’ Magnificent’Bread, Confectionery, Pies of ■ every description, Tartlets, &o„ of the first quality. Orders for hot Pies for Suppers promptly attended to. No pains or expense will be spared ’•ender this Bakery the BEST IN TOWN, THE COOK COUNTY BUITiDING SOCIETY (PERMANENT). HA S commenced bueinese. OtMccs Lewis Stb»»T; Investors should obtain copies of Bules. Investment Shares, Class each, paid in full. Class B, of value of £25, payable it per month. Enquire further partibdlars rcri A. W. CROFT, Managing Director. GISBORNE CARRIAGE AND SPRING FACTORY, r pilE undersigned is Selling-off the under -1- signed Goods eheap. No reasonable offer refused:— 3 Double-sealed 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, Road and Peel Street, Gisborne

IN BANKRUPTCY. In the Matter of “ The Bankruptcy Act, PTYHE following Forma can be X application at this ollico. No. 2. Ordinary Declaration in Proof of Debt. No. 3. Declaration in Proof of Debt duo to Finn or Company. No. 4. Form of Proxy. No. 8. Declaration of Bankrupt ol Assets and Liabilities, &e. No. 9. Statement of Bankrupt. b 200? r J I O Stand this Beeson KAITERATAIH, Tborouglibred Stallion NEW CHUM. New Chum is by Tradueor, dam Fair Lass, by Riddlesworth; grand-dam Fair Wave. Fair Wove Was one of the grandest Arab mares ever imported into New Zealand. Terms: £2 10s each mare; guarantee, £8 10s; two or mora mares, the property of the same owner,, as by sgreemeut, Paddocking, with plenty of grass and water, free for one month, after which 2 a (id per week will be charged. All fees, whether guarantee or otherwise, to ba paid before removal of marcs. In cases of guaratifce, and mares not proving in foal, the fee will bo returned. AU taken, but no responsibility incurred. a. de Very, 639 Kaiteralahi. ‘A USTRALiAN MUTUAL - I’HGVL Jrk DENT SOCIETY. Established 1849. The oldest Mutual Life Office in Australia Now Zealand Branch : Head Office— Ciiatum-house Quay, Wellington, Local Board of Dircetors : The Hou. Chas, Johnson Pharazyn, M.L.C, (Chairman): the Hon. Sir William Fiteherbert. K.C.M.G,, M.L.C. (Deputy-Chair.mao); A. Du B. Bran, ilon, Esq. ; Charles J. Johnston, Esq,, M L ’ ie Q, an S’ (jJra °e> M.D., Medical Officer: Dr. W. G. Kemp. M.R.C.S. (EnuUndk

LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUEN. NlUM.—Policies effected during the year 1884 will participate in the Quinquennial Division of Profits, to be usceriained as at the 31st December, 1884. The profit of the current quinquennium has been recently accumulating at the rate of £200,000 per

ANNUAL DIVISION OF PROFIT.— The profits of the Society are to be divided anntully after the 31st December, 1884. The Invested Funds exceed £4,300,000; the Annual Income is upwards of £850,01'0; the Society has more than 50,000 policies in force, assuring upwards of £18,000,000; during the lust thirty-four years the Society has p dd for claims aud matured endowments £1,500,000. 'LhoSociety 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. Jlie cost of management, including connnisbiun, 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. Ices than the other Australian Mutual Life Offices, and less than any other Life Assuraucc Institution cither in Europe or America during a corresponding amount of New Business.

UN PARALLELED ACCUMULATION OF FUNDS. —'Jen years ago the Society, while 69th on the ii«t of British Offices in point of age, was 3.5 th in respect of Funds. It now—January, 1881— stands 4th, only three offices iu (beat Britain—established respectively in 1815, 1823, and IS2s—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. PJESSE, Gisborne Agent.

Don’t JOlo in Tho HousoRough on Rais” clears oat rate, mice beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, auts, insects, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers, 7jd. The New Zealand Drag Company, General A nnts.