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Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 411, 2 January 1875, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND pOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE Alift) ANNUITIES. PERSONS desirous of Inuring their Lives, or effecting i Annuity and Endowment Policies, will shortly have a favorable opportunity of doing so. Mr W. J. MOONEY will visit the Waikato in a fewdays, and transact business in the above named branches. The advantages of iniuritog with the New Zsalaad G-orernment ai'e unparalleled! Tho payment of policies m guaranteed under the Act of, 1874. of the General Assembly, and all profits ar« to be JS» I '"i4ed amongst the insured itcry five years. xiie premium rates are lower than those of Drivate com* panics, to an extent which is equivalent to a bonus in ad« vance of from 15 to 20 per ot»t. W. J. MOONEY, Travelling Agent. December 22ud, J874. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE ASSURANCE. MrW. J. MOONEY will deliver Lect ures on the above subject *» follows .—. — HAMILTON WEST, Saturday, 2nd January, in the School-room, it 7.30 p.m. HAMILTON EAST* Mcraday, 4th January, in the School-room, at 7-30 p.m. W Ladies are invited. ADMISSION FREE. ,

i? Great consternation amongst the shareholders of the Waterford and Limerick Railway prevails in Dublin. Mr B. Kernaghan, solicitor, presented a cheque he held from the company on the Provincial Bank of Dublin for £150 on October 10, and it was dishonoured. Mr Kernaghan telegraphed to the Waterford directors, stating that if it was nut honoured before the bank dosed he would put the company into bankruptcy. No answer was sent. Some of the directors broke open the company's safe on the previous day, put the deeds into a new jme, and have locked them up. Great excitement prevails in connection with these events. A banker's clerk was proceeding through Threadneedle street, London, with ten jEI,OOO-notes in his possession, which be placed, as he imagined, in his breast-coat pocket, but shortly after discovered that he had lost them. He made his loss known to the bank authorities, who immediately offered a reward of *£lQO. A wood-oarver residing in Walworth, in company with another man, happened to be passing through Threadsoedle street about the same time, picked up the notes; andJook them home. On looking, over the Times, the following morning, he perceived the fct£ vertisement offering the abovo reward, and lost no time m v presenting tb«m at the- baak.^ As * rtwAcd QLUftKoiyftfie* ,Tf £ank autkoriti^f^i' hM ifeH^-tCT, a further sum of £50 y~ for his companion, and £11) ho a chapel of which the finder £ wa3 a member. ... * \ Mr Toole has not escaped the inevitable interviewer of 1 the Now York pfcejj^JEl&JC^ of AqgqfotJ /frffe g'ffl^liftFrii^liiiT'^ tnd a half of the famous comedian's impressions of- Amrtfioo, extracted from him by a correspondent of that paper. Amongst other questions Mr Toole was asked what he thought of Niagra. His reply was : Niagra is the greatest sight I ever saw. I satv it the evening I arrived, and got up before daylight to see it again in case none of the water should be left. It can't last long, anyhow, and I wrote to several of my London friends to come over soon, as I didn't believe it could go on at the same rate. I told the hotel proprietor that I never knew any performance that had such a "long run," but he assured me that he had made special arrangements that the fall ssasoa would continue till further notice. When we were under the falls I had to pay for my costume. This was the* first time I ever paid for "dressing up," as I generally receive pretty large Bums for putting on eccentric costumes. The San Francisco Netos Letter has lately been exposingthe quacks in that city, and an actien for libel is now threatened with heavy damages. This is the way the Editor retorts:— "We shall struggle to make the issues wide enough to let in as much light as possible upon the dark ways of quackery. Fortunately— though no thanks are due to the quacks for the fact— we have many living witnesses left. Unfortunately, too, many have gone to that bourne where no subpoena from any earthly judge will ever reach them. One poor woman, who this night week was full of fond hopes of presently becoming a proud mother, we would particularly desire to have as a witness. She was attended by a quack accoucheur, with considerable practice in this city, but of the exact pattern of those being now manufactured by Mr Deane, in our State University. The birth presented a slight irregularity, common enough, and easily dealt with by a skilful man. We hardly know how to proceed to tell of the terrible horror. The fellow sent to the kitchen fora jack knife, and cut olf the arm of the yet half -born babe, and that not sufficing, he next made use of a clothes Hue, under which operation the mother and child succumbed, and death relieved them from tortures worse than those of the damned. This is no imaginary or overdrawn case. We have but shght'y hinted at a proceeding of which at this moment there is legal proof in the hands of the , police. Aye, by all means indict us, Messieurs les Quacks! We would stand fifty indictments rather than remain silent under the crushing evidences that are daily submitted to us. We shall go straight ahead in our work. Individual quacks shall Be treated as their separate cases may require, and they shall be kept in that black list. But our first and most urgent is to strike at the fountain head and dry up that annual supply of quack 9 . That is why we go for those manufac?urers, Deane, Bates, Bradbury and the rest. When we have snuffed out the creators we shall easily enough dispose of the things already created. A correspondent of the Spectator writes .—A. story is going about which ought to be true, if it is not ; but I have been assured by a friend in holy orders that it maybe depended on. Two persons-a materialistic lecturer and a city mis B ionary-recently met before a first-class audience to discuss the question of responsibility. The atomic philo* sopber went in first, and showed that the popular religious notion of judgment to come for deeds done in the body was inconsistent with any notion that can be formed of judicial righteousness. The first principle of justice is not to punish one person for the faults of another. But, said the lecturer, science has proved beyond doubt that at the end of a few years not a particle in my body or br am remains ; every atom has passed atvay, and the new matter forms a new man, who cannot be held accountable for the conduct of another. The audience seemed as enchanted as that at Belfast Then arose the city missionary, whose wits must have been lively, and said : « Ladiea and gentlemen-It is matter of regret to me that I have to engage in a discussion with a man of questionable character— with one, in fact, who is living with a woman to whom he is not married. Up rose in wrath, again the materialist. " Sir. this-is shameful, and I repudiate your insolent attack on my character. I defy you to substantiate your charge. 1 was married to my wife twenty years ago, and we have lived happy together ever since This is a mere attempt at evading the force of my argument." "On the contrary," replied the City missionorv, " I reaffirm my charge. You were never married to the person with whom jou are living. Twenty years ago two other people may have gone to church bearing your names, but thero is not one atom in your bodies remaining of those which were then married. It follows inevitably that you are living in concubinage, unless you will admit that you are the same man wlio was married twenty years since? The philosopher was compelled amidst great cheering to allow that, somehow or another, credit and discredit tor past actions must be granted even by materialists. At the end of the last financial year, on March 31, 1874, the capital of the funded debt of the ed ,^B^ m m-ised £395,830,624 £3 per cent. Consolidated Stock; £211,381,285 new £3 per cents.; £98,208,600 reduced £3 per cents.; £3,803,580 new £2* per cents.; £225,746 new £3* per cents. ; £13,645,869 debt due to the Bank of England and the Bank of Ireland, at £3 per cent. ; and l £418,300 Exchequer Bonds, created by 16 Viet., c. 23. The total is £723 514 005 To this must bo added terminable annuities ♦ Waiting to moro than 4£ millions a year, representing a t-wtal (estimated) of £51,2*9,640 ; and lastly, the unfunded debt in Exchequer Bills and Exchequer Bonda, amounting to £4,479,600. The total amount {of the National .Debt therefore, was £770,288,245. The National Debt was mcreased by the Crimean War, and on March 31, 185J, t amounted to £830,757,193, which was constituted as follows— £790,480,720 funded debt, £18,277,400 unfunded debt, and £21,999,073 estimated capital of terminable annuities Since that timo the capital of the funded and unfunded debt has been reduced by more than 80 millions. The capital repre fi ented by terminable annuities has increase! by 29 millions, but what we pay in this way goes partly in reduction of the principal of the debt. Tue terminable annuities comprise about a million a year, payable to persons who have purcUed Government life annuity j but upwards