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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 36, 1 December 1894, Page 3

ABPLN’ AND McKELLAR SO- to intimate to their customers and the public generally, that for the future they do not intend to sell the Nightcaps Coal Co’s Coal, but will continue to sell superior Coal from Nightcaps, viz:—Reid’s Famed Morley Pit Coal, the best in Southland, at the old price, 18s, PER TON, or 2s PER BAG. Also on Hand at Lowest Current Prices, Newcastle, Coalbrookdale, Westport, Brunner Nuts, Hokonui and Kaitangata Coals, Kaitangata Double Screened Nuts, Coke, Dry Firewood (1 and 2 feet lengths), Black Pine, Mixed Firewood and Slabs. 1 By special arrangement with the Kaitangata Coal Co., we are now selling their Double Screened Nuts at 18s per Ton. MARTIN & McKELLAR, Lidbel Street. CONTRACTORS N. Z, GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS, CUSTOMS AGENTS AND GENERAL CARRIERS. Furniture Packed or Removed with Great Care and qoiokDispatch. General Carting Done. AGENTS COLONIAL CARRYING CO. Telephone 133.

Government life insurance DEPARTMENT. Established 1870. EVERT rOLICT GUARANTEED BY THE STATE. BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OP GROWTH OP OPFICE. FUNDS, 1877 - £219,000. „ 1893 - £2,129,000. AT THE PRESENT TIME THE FUNDS exceed TWO MILLION POUNDS. PRESENT ANNUAL INCOME, Over £360,000. The leading Louden Insurance Journal. “The Post Magazine and insu.ance Monitor,” says, —“ The nly iuMiui ion of the kind Ht present in existence managing it-s affairs on commovcial princijdes is the Life Assurance Department of the Colony of New Zealand. . . . Althougn the operations of the Department are confined to &■ small colony, tile figures reached are very large, ex-culing those of the great majority of i'.ricish companies. . . . Many of our companies at homo might learn from it a useful lesson.” J. H. RICHARDSON, 4] ■ Commissioner. €L Froggatt, STOCK, STA riON, INSURANCE, AND COMMISSION AGENT. : Auction Sales. —Hides, Skins, Tallow, Bab bitskins, Horsehair, etc., every MON DAY morning. STOCK at Invercargill Yards every alternate TUESDAY. 1 STOCK at Winton first THURSDAY in month. Other Centres as required. Agent for Royal Exchange Assurance and Scottish Metropolitan Assurance (Accident}* T. HODGKINSON, MAKAREWA RKICK & PIPE WORKS. HAS in stock Bricks and Pipes, and Farmers’ .Drain Tiles, from 2in, Sin., 4in., 6in., and Bltt., at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. Postal Address — P. 0., INVERCARGILL. pi Perfect Sig*ht!!! m HAVE just landed, from one of the best ■ makers in Europe, a splendid lot of Perfect Lenses in Brazilian pebble and crown glass; and also a great variety spectacle frames, almost any size and design, so that I can now not only guarantee to supply Lenses to suit the eyes, but frames to perfectly fit the face. I test the sight for the various forms of defective refraction—Astigmatism, Myopia, &c I have also good selection of coloured Glasses, Goggles, &c., for weak sight. Occulists’ Prescriptions for glasses accurately made up. 0. H. MACAUBTEE, Chemist and Occulist-Optician INVERCARGILL.