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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4721, 23 February 1884, Page 2

Labottr is responsible for the following:— j There is, I am given to understand, noohance of the Government Insurance Department bdng in a position to pay any bonus at the : next quinquennium. Tho Colonial Treasurer j views the inability with the mo.-t tranquil unconcern, stating that he does not consider it expedient for a Government Insurance Office to declare bonuses. Whether the policy-holders will preserve the same equanimity under the circumstatcesremaioßto.be seen. But those policy-holders who have examined the accounts of the department since Mr Thorne framed it, must have known of this coming lack of bonus some time since, as there was no cloak thrown over the fact that the bonus fund was being distributed among the Civil Service. Tho department has for soaie time paßt been spending the whole of its loading. The only pleasing thing in the whole business is Mr Thorne's luck. Mr Luckie has proved quite incapable of preserv- ! ing the policy-holders' interests from the | rapacity of his agent.

Wise Foitr. —" For ton years my wife was confined to her bed with Buch a complication of ailmento that no doctor could tell what was the matter or cure her, and I used up a email fortune in humbug stuff. Six months ago I saw an American £Ug with Hop Bitterß on it, and I though I would be a fool once more. I tried it, but my folly proved to b8 wisdom. Two bottles cured her, she is now as well and strong as any man's wife, and it ooet me only two dollars."—H. W., Detroit, Mich. Bead Skinnt Mek.—" Wells' Health Renewer" restores health and vigor, cures Dyspopda, Impotence, Debility. Moses, Mobs, and Co., Sydney. General Agents.