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Southland Times, Issue 1714, 14 March 1873, Page 2

BANK HOLIDAY. rpHE Banks will be closed on Monday next, 17th inst., being St Patrick's Day. 6„— — — LADISS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. MR B. SHORT, of Sydney, will deliver a Lecture on Tuesday evening, 18th March, in the Presbyterian Church. Subject, Incidents and, Facts connected with Mr Short's Travels and Kvangelistio Labors, more particularly, vinit to Port Arthur Prison?, "Van Dieman's Land, deser ption of model prison, silent treatment, &c , &o. i visit to Taieri Fasting Girl, with an account of what she saw and heard during her traace of seven weeks, &c, &o. Chair to be taken at half past seven. LIFE ASSURANCE. SOME TIME since Mr O , a highly respectable storekeeper, residing in New South Wales, the father of a large family, now left without any provision, applied to assure his life for £1000 in the Mutual. All the papers being completed, were forwarded to the Doctor for examination. The day he saw the medical man, feeling slightly indUpoia 1, he deferred being examined until the next day. This was a day too lato, aa he was seized with a fit of apoplexy, dying almost immediately — the amount of liability at his death absorbed his assets. While this sustains the time-honored theory of the danger of procrastination, it says , to intending Insurers in the Australian Mutual Provident Society, " Delays are dangerous."