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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3206, 29 May 1879, Page 4

.'•'Mb Wm. McCriLimraH having been appointed agent on the Thames for the Imperial Tire Insurance Company, is prepared to take neku at the lowest rates. The Imperial Com ''p'any was established in 1803, and has a capital of £1,600,000, with its head office at :TSo. l,Old r ßroad street, London. The Melbourne directory has upon ifc some of the most influential men in that cit.yj and the name the Company has gained for itself by its prompt and liberal settlement, of claims; while charging moderate rates, has secured a large amount ot business not only in Australian Colonies, Tmfc in all parts oi the world in which agencies hare been established. —Advt- ■ ;

" Government Notices [Extract from flew Zealand' Gazette, Ist \ May, 1879.] OF A FURTHER PORTION —OF THE RECLAIMED LAND IN THE CITY OF WELLINGTON. 0-eueral Crown Lands Office, ? KJ . "Wellinßton, 291b, April,.. IS7& * THE Commissioner of Crown Lands; for Wellington will sell, by, public auction, on TUESDAY, the 17th of June, 1879, at the AtbeEseum Hall, Lambton Quay, Wellington, the under-mentioned allotments of freehold land, in Blocks numbered X., XI, XII., and XIII., on the plan of the reclaimed ]and in the City of Wellington. plans, aa.well as conditions of sale, are now ready for distribution at the various Land Offices throughout the colony. The plans contain the fullest particulars, giving the number of sections, with their area in poles and tenths ; also the frontage in feet and tenths. * . ... . Each section will be pegged and numbered before the day of sale. Block X. contains 15 sections. ■ » XI. „8 „ „ XII. „ 5 „ „ XIII. „ 14 „ r:; Total 42 ■'- These several blocks of land have frontages to> Waterloo Quay on the Bast; Lambton Quay on the West; Allen Street on the North j and. to the Government Buildings on the South. . Terms of payment: 15 per cent, cash deposit; the balance by bills at six, nine, and twelve months, without interest. 1 Immediate possession will be given after the sale. ' Title direct from the Crown. By order. H. J. H. Eliott, 646 Under Secretary for Crown Lands.

mELE GRAPHIC CHARGE. INLAND. ' The rate for Inland Telegrams of ten words is Is, and Id extra for every additional word. On Sundays these r»tes are doubled. N<6 chnrge for addressee and signature up to ten words^-ld each beyond that number. :r , ... FOREIGN. ;.. 'The following are the rates for Telegrams for twenty words or less (including Melbourne or Sydney rates) Tia Port Darwin and the Java" Cable:— £s d ' ' £s d Austria ... 9 5 6 London ... 9 8 6 Belgium and Portugul ...9 9 0 Holland ..,9 6 0 Russia ...9 6 0 Denmark ... 95 6 Spain ... 98 0 France ... 9 6 0 Sweden ... 9 5 0 Germany ... 95 6 Switzerland ... 94 6 Great Britain 9 9 6 Turkey .... 9 6 0 Italy 9 3 6 Via Sydney the rates are 3s more throughout. "'."Telegraph Offices are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p7m. on week dajs, and from 10 to 10.30 a.mi and 5 to 5 30 p.m. on Sundays.

.^NEW ZEALAND CABLE. (In addition lo JS Tew Zejlnnd clinrges.) Telegrams for Sydney only.—Fir»t ten words, 8s 5 each additional word, Did. 'All other stations in New South Wales. — First ten .wordp, 83 6d 1 each additional WtS, ioa." 5-All stations in Victoria—First ien words, 9a 6d 5 each additional word, lid. All stations in South Australia, exclusive of overland line tarifl'.—Same as Victoria. All stations in Tasmania.—First ten words, 13a 6d; Is per word lor Australian and New Zealand Cable, and 23 for every addilionnl fiy ; e, .words or fraction of five words for Tasmairian Cable. Measageß for London and places in Europe ' {*:^ord 1-ate)>—Ten- shillings and sixpence j pier word; to which iijijst be added Australian Cable and -Australian' charges.—Firdt t n \#ordii or fraction, 9a 6el, aod erery word. after tea Ud per word, '