"VTEW ZEALAND LOAN ±\ AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY; (Limited), Capital eubaoribed ... ... £3.000,000' Reserve fund .„ £120,000 bankers : Bank of New Zealand HEAD OFFICE : o , 1 Queen Victoria-street, Mansion House London, E.C. CHIEF COLONIAL OFFICES IN NEW ZEALAND : Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercar- gill, Wellington, and Napier. In Australia : Melbourne, Sydney, New- castle (N. S. W. ) In Fiji : Levuka. Managers and Agents of the Bank of New Zealand act as Agents for the Company in all other parts of New Zealand. The Company makes advances in the Aus- tralasian Colonies on the Stations and Stocks at Runholders, on Growing Clips of Wool, &c, and receives consignments of Wool, Tallow, and all classes «f Produce for sale in London or elsewhere on Commission, at rates which may be learned on application to the Agent. The Company also undei takes the execu- tion of indents in London, forwarded through its agents in the colonies. The Company would specially direct at- tention to the facilities offered by them for the transaction of business in all parts of New Zealand, through its Agencies now established throughout the colony, Napier Office — Hastings-street. 174 VICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY- Established 1849. Paid up Capital, £200,000. r?IHI3 old-established and wealthy Colonial 1. Company offers unquestionable secu- rity and accepts FIRE AND MARINE RISKS Of every description at the Lowest Current Rates. Forms of Proposal, and all information may be obtained from the under-mentioned Sub-agents : — Waipawa ... ... Mr E. Bibby Waipukurau ... „J. L. Sterry Havelock Gr. R. Grant Tarrxlale and Meanee C. Butler, jun. Clire B. C, Ware Hastings  J. J. Kelly Porangahau, Messrs Harsant and Adair Wairoa and Te Kapu... Mr George Fraser Or from ROUTLEDGE, KENNEDY & CO., 177 Apents, Napier. EMPIRE HOTEL. TL /r"R MAYO begs to inform his friends and IVX the public generally that he has re- sumed the management of the Empire Hotel, and hopes to receive the patronage hitherto accorded to him. 169 NOTICE. NITROUS OXIDE GAS. MR H. C. WILSON, Dentist, is now fully prepared to perform all dental operations painlessly by the aid of Ni- trous Oxide Gas, which is recognised as the safest and most pleasant anaesthetic nown. 180 rpHE NATIONAL MORTGAGE AND L AGENCY COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND (Limited). CAPITAL £1,000,000 (In 100,000 shares of £10 each.) Trustees : Charles Magniao, Esq., 3 Lombard-street, London. 