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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3117, 13 February 1879, Page 4

Mb Wh. McOcujottgh having been appointed agent on the Thames for the Imperial Tire Insurance Company, is prepared to take risks at the lowest rates. The Imperial Company was established in 1803, and has a capital of £1,600,000, with its bend office at No. 1," Old Broad street, London. The Melbourne directory has upon it some of the most influential men in that city, and the name the Company has gained for itself by its prompt and liberal settlement of claims, while phargiDg moderate rates, has secured a large amount of business not only in Australian Colonies, but in all parts of the world in which agencies have been established.—Adtt.

General Notices A USTEALIAN MUTUAL PBOVIA DENT SOCIETY. Established in the Ybar 1849. For Life Assurance on the Mutual Principle. New Zeaiand Branch. Invested Funds ... ... £2,800,000. Annual Income ... ... 550,000 Amount Assured ... ... 12,000,000 Claims-Paid;.. 850,000 Policies in Force ..; ... 31,000 LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM. Sixth Diyisioh ot Pbopits. The whole of the profits are divided nmongft the assured, and bonuses to the amount of £910,000 have already been allotted. (The hst 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 Branch Office, Wellington, or from any of the Society's agents* , ' Edwabd W. Lowb, [Resident Secretary. D. B. GELLION, * Agent fob thb Thames. 3631 THAMES VISITORS TO AUCKLAND CAN be accommodated with Comfortable PRIVATE BOARD and RESIDENCE upon moderate terms at— Mbb John Cashel's, Upper Eobson street, Auckland. Opposite Auckland Western Academy. GBATEFUL— COMFORTING. BREAKFAST. Tl PPS'S pOOOA. < By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to diseiiße. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame/- See article in the Civil Service Gaitite. Sold in packets labelled— JAMES EPPS AND CO., HOMOEOPATHIC CHEMISTS, LONDON. w2472 O ECEIPT BOOKS oi all kirde, n orna AX mental sciipt letter at the Evxvuie bxAB Office. „„