THE INSURANCES.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1391, 2 June 1881, Page 2

THE INSURANCES.

The following are the amounts of insurances in the undermentioned office 3 : —New Zealand, £1110; South British, £730 ; National, £1000 ; Standavd, £650 ; Colonial, £2930 ; United, £325 ; Eoyal, £190; Union, £025; Noith Bntibh and Meicantile, £900; Imperial, £200: Sun, £250 ; Norwich Union, £250 ; and Transatlantic, £250— Total, £9450. Re-insu-rances reduce the Colonial loss to £1300. The insurances as far as known are :—: — In Union : Lee, £1000 ; Rhodes, £250 ; limj of Tlaiiij Times, £400; Douglas's cottages and contents, £100. Standard : Men/ies, £300. South British : Lee, £500 ; Rhodes, £200. Now Zealand : Timib, £400; Chadwick, £1500; Tubby's estate, £190. National: Lee, £250; Ellis, £30 ; Neilson, £610 ; Vog.ui, £200 ; consignors of goods to Jordan's .store, £100; Jordan, £100. Colonial: Toneo 7 building, £200.

In the last century the Hindoos were taught from childhood that they must remain imprisoned for life in the cast in which they were born. Under British rale two million lative children aro now learing that ever^ r occupation and profession is open to every boy on the benches of an Indin school. Electric signals for the fire-engine have been introduced in America. A wire runs along the cotton or india-rubber part of the hose, and over this passes electricity generated by one of the engine's fly-wheels. Connected with the nozzle is a little contrivance by which the man who is playing water on tho fire can tell the engineer, even though at a considerable distance, to turn the water on, cufc it off, &c, by a signal struck on a gong on the engine. The extroadinary revelations of ' the Victorian census having considerable interest for this Colony, we extract the following calculation from the Argus, given by a correspondent signing himself " Observer" :—ln: — In examining the census returns it appears to me that the full significance of the figure ha? not yet been clearly pointed out. In your leader on the subject you show that, allowing for the natural increase by births, the statistics reveal an actual loss to* the Colony of 21,000 during the deoade, but attention has not been oalled to the fact that more than the whole of this loss has incurred in the male population. This will bo made apparent by the following statement: — Male population in 1371, 401,050; add half natural increase, 72,500 ; total, 473,550 ; deduct male population in 1881, 448,510 : loss of male population, 25,040. We thus arrive at the significant conclusion that, at the result o,f our suicidal policy, we have driven out of tho Colony, of the most desirable class, the wealth-producers, 4600 more than the whole actual deficiency."