£183,336 i Total transact ons, per balance-sheet ... ... £92,318 ... " £835,202' Secubities- General Investment Account ... £70,864. .. ..., £216,943 Special Investment Account ... £2,655. ... £245,839 Expenses Account—Total receipts €2,139 :.. £14,482 Administrations .;'. ..'. ...- v 172 ' '..; 258 Probates and trusts ... 14 .. 30 Wills provisionally accepted. ... 1 ... 42 Letters received ... 2,122 ... 10,326 Utters despatched -. .;. 11,432 13,053 J. J. M. HAMILTON, District Agent. ARTIFICIAL MANURES. ttiVE tfOR SALE IN LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES.—'"- Superpliospliates Bone Dust Potato Manure ; Blood Manure : Garden Manure GEOJSGE JAMESON Asli^urtoii ana Kakaia



Public Notices. To let or For sale-a six roomed House with wish house and store room detached. The.garden, $ acre, is stocked with fruit trees m full bearing order. The property is situated on the corner of Green Lane and Nelson Street, Hampstead, and is m perfect , order, Apply to. i I 9 101 Wm, HALSALL. LADIES, CONSULT " DR T. EAS TOE ABBOTT THE ONLY QUALIFIED MEDICAL EXPERT on • NERVOUS AILMENTS AND DISEASES OF WOMEN Advertising m Australia. Consulation by Letteb Free Address —19Queen's Walk, Melrouvno THE STANDARD Fire & jMrnriiie Insurance Company OF NEW ZEALAND With Unlimited Liability of Shareholders. f CAPITAL -£I,OOO,OOOO—STERLING. FIRE and Marine Risks accepted on all descriptions of Property and Mer chandise ; also Crop, Stack, and Machine Risks at Lowest Rates of Premium. Fidelity of Persons Holding Situa tions of Trust Guaranteed. ARCHIBALD SCOTT, Manager for Canterbury. ROBERT ALCORN, Agenfl 114 Saunders' Buildings, Ashburton. Stephens Bros,' MAKKET HOUSE. TEA. TEA. TEA. JUST Landed—First consignment of New Season's, all of which are m splendidconditionandof exceptional value We therefore solicit the patronage of our Customers and theiPublic to try our BLENDED TEAS, Prices 2s, 2s 4d, 2s 6d and 2s Bd. Ceylon, pure, m great variety from Is lOd per pound ; Indians-, Tippoo, Flowery, and Mellow, from 2s per pound upwarJs ; China's best productk-ns m .Monmgs, Panyongs, Sarynues, Pecco, Controu, and other qualities, including some very choice Kaisows. One trial by the most sceptical will prove that our TEAS are equal to any m the maiket. So lovers of the Gup that cheers but never inebriates 'will do weli to call and net samples. 