Insurance Companies. HE STANDARD INSURANCE COM- PANY Is prepared to take FIRE and MARINE RISKS at current rates. SAMUEL, LADD, & CO, Agente. Temporary Offices — Above the office of the " Evening Post." TTIOTORTA FIRE AND MARINE IN- V SURANCE COMPANY. Cjmplete indemnity from LOSS or damage by FIRE granted under Policies of the VICTORIA COMPANY. Undoubted Security, Low Rates, Prompt and Liberal Adjustment of Claims. LEVIN & CO, Agents. T7l 1R E A~T LONGBUSH. Victoria Insurance Company, Dunedin, December 23, 1873. Edwabd Smith, Esq, Treasurer Presbyterian Church, Otago. Dear Sir, — Eeferring to youa conversation of yesterday, and your letter of this morning, informing me that the Presbyterian Manse at Longbuah had been partially burned, aud the Pastor's furniture damaged, I have brought the matter under consideration of my Direc- tors, and have now the pleasure to inform you that, finding your Presbytery had been under the hnpreesion that the loss wua covered by insurance with us, aijd further that the property destroyed was Church property, they have decided to reimburse the whole loss. I have pleasure in begging your acceptance of enclosed cheque for £50, the amount you estimate tho loss at — say £20 for damage done to the Manae, and £30 damage done to Rev T. Alexander's furniture. Yours faithfully, W. D. ME ARES, Res. Sec. j ■ I, Business Notices. I T O H N S T O N & 0 O. I J Merchants and Commission Agents SOLE AGENTS FOR N. B. Foster and Sons' Baas' ale do do Guinness' stout Duff, Gordon and Co's sherry Kspko and Co'a porb Henry White and Co's bulk rura do do red heart rum Thomas Lowndes and Co's rum Lecoq Frere's brandy B. and E. Perrier's champagne F. Giesler and Oo's do Reid and Gray's (Onmaru) agricultural implements 8. P. H. Wright's Taßmanian hops J. T. Martin's (Invercurgill) ale and stout Chas Price and Co's Rangoon oil Wyatt aud Co'a pickles ]MT ASTERTON! MASTERTON! G. DI~X~ON, 81/AOKSMITH AND FABBIBB, Having attached a Wheelwright's Shop to his premises, is prepared to undertake all orders in the above trades, and to execute the same with neatness and dispatch.. O T I (3 B H. E. WARO UP, BOOTMAKER, Begs to inform his Customers and the Publio he has REMOVED to LAMBTON QUAY, next door to Meaars Brandon and Quick's. TT7" s! MOORH OUSE SOLICITOR, WELLINGTON. Pabmamentars- Agent. 