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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10229, 22 June 1883, Page 4

i USTRALIANMUTUALPROVIDENG A SOCIETY. Established 1849. The Oldest Mutual Life Office in Australia Now Zealand Branch : Head Office, Customhouse Quay, Wellington, Local Board of Directors : The Hon. Charles Johnson Pharazyn, M.L.C (Chairman) TheHon.Sir William Fitzherbert, K.C.M.G., • - : ■ M.l/.0. (Deputy-Chairman) A. Pc B. Brandon, Esq., J.P. Charles J. Johnston, Esq., M.H.R. The Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D., M.L.C. Medical Officer : Dr W. G Kemp, M.R.C.S. (England). Last Yeab op the Quinquennium.. Policies effected during the year 1883 wil participate in the Quinquennial Division of Profits,, to be ascertained as at the 31st December, 1883. The profit of the current quinquennium has been recently accumulating at the rate of £200,000 per annum. Annual Division of Pbowt._ The profits of the Society are to be divider 1 annually after the 31st December, 1883. The Invested Funds exceed ...£4,300,004 The Annual Income is upwards of 850,000 The Society has more than 50,000 Policies in force, assuring upwards of 18,000,000 During the last 34 years the Society has paid for Claims and Matured Endowments ... 1,500,000 The Society has divided among its members Cash Bonuses amounting to upwards, of £916,000, yielding Reversionary Bonuses exceeding Two Millions. New Business. The new business of the last five years has exceeded two millions per annum — a larger amount annually than has ever been transacted by any other Life Office in the British Dominions. The cost of management including commission, is unusually ow, Derag omy 9'S per cent, of the total receipts of the year. This rate of expenditure is, on the average, 18 per cent, leiss than that of the other Australian Mutual Life Offices, ana less than any other Life Assurance Institution either in Europe or America, doing a corresponding amount of new business. Unpaeallbled Accumulation oe Funds. Ten years ago the Society, while 69th on the list of British offices in point of age, was 35th in respect of funds. It now — January, 1883— stands 4th, only three offices in Great Britain, established respectively in ■ 1815, 1823, and 1825, being above it. The accumulated funds now exceed FOUR MILLIONTHRBE HUNDBBD THOUSAND POUNDS. Assure your Life in the AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, AND SECURE AN ANNUAL BONUS OR DIVIDEND, A Pbitilbge which no otheb Lipe Oshcb in the colony can grant its members. Be careful that you select this Society, and do not be misled by the similarity of name of some other assurance office. The Society caa be considered quite as much a New Zealand as an Australian institution, seeing that all moneys received in the colony are invested here in advances on mortgage of first-class freehold securities loans to members on the security of their policies, Government debentures, and freerhold branch office premises ; and the Society is thus assisting in developing the resources of the colony. THE SOCIETY HAS ASSETS IN NEW ZEALAND SECUEITIES EXOEEDIKa FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND OUNDS t No Otheb Lies Office in mas Colons Can give you such. LARGE BONUSES AS THE AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL IROVIDENT SOCIETY, And the effect of an Aunuai Bonus, which can be taken in Cash, will be to reduce the cost oi assu-vance to the lowest possible minimum. If you are ribeady sufficiently assured yourself, induco vourfriends to follow your example, *.\nns of proposal, and all "faer informatk' ■. may be obtained on application to the Resident Secretary, Wellington, or from uny of the Society's agents. BiAVAEB W. IiOWE, Besidont Secret;" 1 " GENUINE CHEAPNESS ALWAYS DISCOVERS ITSELF. IT hua always been the custom of the CORNER BOOT SHOP to sell Every Article as reasonable as may Oe consistent with a fair living Profit. Believe not the tradesmen Who tell such big lies About selling their good* At a great sacrifice. They do not grow fat On a bare bone who dine, But dissolve like a shadow Who out it too fine. This Grand Stock contains Goods suited to all occasions and all seasons. Thorough experience in the Business, keenness in Buying and Competing, judgment in Selection, and economy in management, are the grand characteristics of the success of the CORNER BOOT SHOP over every rival. ' i Its Star is in the Ascendant. The Wellington luminary begins to twinkle, and wul soon hide its diminished head. THE CORNER BOOT SHOP. AINSWORTH'S. - EVBBYBODY KNOWS It. Let poets sing what theme thoy ehooso, I sing about my Boots and Shoes j Some sing of ladies, dark or fair, Of golden locks or raven hair. Give me the feet then (I'm all there) To fit them with a lovely pair. Some are great in all such parts Where they (pitch it high) on broker hearts ; Suoh twaddle don't desecrate my mine, I'd rather hear of broken shoes. ■Ej* The Cohner Boot Shop, AINSWORTH'S, Sva!ir3jo? K:owj Ii JOSEPH SCOTT, BOOT AND SHOR MAKER, Taoto Quax, BEGS to announce that, having deter mined to clear off his large stock, hi j -will olfer SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR CASH a All goods will be sold cheaper and botte « than, any other house in town o Women's Kid, Levant, Elastics, and Laco ups will be sold at Cost Price. Great Cash Sale begins on SATURDAY, 20tii JANUARY, 1883 X".S. — Joaepli Scott guarantees that i any articles purchased u.t hi; shop give way within an ur.rcasonabli! ilvao Jrom Die dal of sale, he will repair them free of coit. JOSEPH SCOTT, TATOO Qui.2. -r? ... - . : i- '"" h ''i" !.i..u -;fi i.