Tbe words " Li^colo and Mifllnnd ('oun'ics J'rug Company, Tjincoln, En/z land," are engraved on the Government I Stamn, -'(lurke's World-lsmed Blotid f fixture." blown in the Botf->. WITD- / nrrr wuicm ni'NlSaek grwuinf^ GOVERNMENT LLFK INSUKANCP, DEPARTMENT. I LOANS ON (yiORTCAC^. "TTIROM HniQ to time a lumWl nov'lon or the P funds is lent on llrst nioit^ii tic .it I.voliqla f-eruiifv, \\itli option ot reimynu'iib I»v lixucl m- stalui'ji.ls. sin-cud ovor 12, 15, or iio jours. Half-yeai lv II 11I 1 aymont foveacli r.IOO. Period of Loan— £ ?• id. Ttcclvc ynaig ... ... 6'l - 7 Fifteen Voars ... ... SH '" Twenty years ... • 4 J.! 13 Loans repayable by instalments whi'ieli v prin- cipal and interest aio both lunii'Utffi w/flun a oivon time, and on tennn of a most tnvoaviible cbaractcr, prosont marked advantages to goUlors and othoiH. Tbe borrower may, beforo tho expiry of tno full period, rocloum tbo loan, wiHi or m Hlioub notice, on torrns wliicb can be ascertained at this olhco, or at any of tbe ollieos ol tins Depsij-tmonfc, wbero also torm • ot application can be ot'taincu. Vov full porti< ilars as to loans npplj to the Head aud Branch Ollices and I'osi Oflict'si,. F. W. FRANKLY MI), P.1.A., 1] Commissioner and (jt'vt. AL-tuavy. TO LET OE FOB SALE. COMFORTABLE FfVR-7<noMFb \j COTTAGE fronting on Bn\e Street, standing in a quarter of an >>cr» of grour* Apply office of this paper. LT^r o b t c c k - , t STUCK AND BHABBBROKKR, FINING}, FIJSANOUI AND GENERAL COMMISSION AG*;N7 Wiw Bt*bbt Hositib^



TTNION" STEAMSHIP COMPANY U OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED, FOR WELLIKGTOy, LYTTELTON AND DUNEDIN. Booking Passengers for all NEW ZEALAND POETS, MEL- BOURNE, HOB ART. & SYDNEY, At Thbotjgh Rates, FOR DUNEDIN DIRECT. S. S. HERALD, Will be despatched from Grevmoutb ON/ MONDAY, APRIL 7. Passengers and Cirgo *?ill be conveyed Dy the b.b.Waipaju leaving the HoMtika Wharf, on Saturday, April 6. FOR DUNEDINDIBECT- S. S. ROSAMOND, E A R L Vi S. Si OMAP ER E, B A R L Y. FOR NELSON AND WELLINGTON S. S. GRAFTON, ON MONDAY, MARCH 31. S. S. M A W H E R A, ON THURSDAY, APEIL 3. PASSENGERS BOOKED TO AND YBOK liORDON BY THE ORIENT LINE OF STEAMEBS, Leaving Melbourne and Sydney every fortnight. 