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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3090, 13 January 1879, Page 3

A USTEALIAN MUTUAL PEOVIA DENT SOCIETY. Established in the Ybab 1849. For Life Assurance on the Mutual Principle. New Zealand Bbavoh. Invested Funds ... ... £2,300,000 Annual Income .550,000 Amount Assured 12,000,000 Claims Paid 850,000 Policies in Force 31,000 LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM. 1 Sixth Division of Pkowts. The whole of the profits are divided amongst the assured, and bonuses to the amount of £910,000 have already been allotted. The last division of profits took place in 1874, and the cash surplus then divided amounted to £235,000, giving additions to policies averaging £3 per cent, per anuum on the sum assured. The bonuses paid on policies becoming claims have varied from £15 per cent, on the sum assured for a policy of five years' standing to £150 per cent, for one of twenty-five years' duration. Bonuses become vested Additions to policies when they have been full five years in force. The profits realised during the last five years will be ascertained and divided as at 31st December next, and all policies issued on or before that date will be entitled to participate in the profits of quinquennium. Prospectus, forms of proposal, and all information may be obtained from the Branoh Office, Wellington, or from any of the Society's, agents. Edwaed W. Lows, Resident Secretary. D. B. GELLION, Ageot pob thh Thames. 3631

phristmas presents I! JAMES FINLAY TT7ISHES to draw the attention of the W Public to his Large and Wellselected Stock of Jewellery, suitable for CHBIBTMAS AND NEW YEAB'S GIFTS, and which he ii now offering at rery low prices. All kinds of Jewellery made to order on the premises in the newest designs, and in a superior manner. Quart* and Greenstone Cut and Mounted. Watches and Clocks Cleaned and Regulated in a satisfactory manner. J A M E S TIHLAY, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, Williamson Stbeet, Grahamstown. 3526 Hurrah for New Year! GLOEIOUS NEWS!!! WE hare much pleasure to announce to our Customers and Friends that we have JUST RECEIVED, from the British and Continental Markets, A VERY LARGE AND VARIED CHOICE SELECTION OF GOODS, Suitable for Holiday Presents, Frizes, &o. &o. We Enumerate a Few:— Dolls, Tops Drums, Tambourines Horses, Hobby Heraes Pistols, Bats, Balls Busses, Whips ,S. Ropes, Concertinas Toilet Sets, Vases .£ Perfumes, Pomade Japanese Goods Lime Jnice&Glycerine Work Box, Puff Box Macassar Oil, Hair Oil Magio Lanterns. ; > CHEAPER THAN EVER. ECCE 8I&NUM! Shortland Bazaar, POLLEN STREET, SHORTLAND SOUTH E. M O E G A N. V. Keisanowski, T AILO E, POLLEN STEEET, SHOETLAND, BEGS to call the attention of the Public to his „. Stock of Cloths, Suitable for the present Season, and to intimate that all Orders entrusted to him will be executed with Despatch, acd at the most reasonable terms. i ■• FANCY SHOWCARDS in Tarious colours uneoual'ed for design and execution, at the B'ekifo Stib Office. T-; ITKIVALLED PRINTING oi all kind \.j —Artistic and Chart* designs. At th» HVfIHIIt&SXA Offlict.