GOOD NEWS TO ALL WHO CAN APPRECIATE GENUINE WINES AND SPIRITS A.T EXTEEMELY LOW PEICES JAMES OLDHAM ( HIGH-STREET BEGS to inform his Customers and the Publio that, notwithstanding the GREAT INCREASE in DUTST, he is prepared to sell at the j following prices for CASH :— CAPE WINES 245. per doz. Pure and Free from Spirit. PORTS AND SHERRIES ... 265. to 365. According to Brand and Age. CHAMPAGNE 365. to 56s According to Brand. CLARET, BURGUNDY, and other FRENCH WINES 265. to 425. BUM 16«. to 18s. per gaL BRANDY (Pale or Dark) 20s. to 245. BRANDY (in cases) 365. to 65* WHISKEY, GENEVA, and OLD TOM, at equally Low Pwoxs. ALE and STOUT ... 11s. to 14. per dox. TEA (good value) from Is. 9d. to 2s. 9dper lb. His STOCK of TOBACCO, CIGARS, COF- FEE. Ac, fee, &c, are well worth a trial ; and he trusts to convince all that it is their interest to deal with JAMES OLDHAM, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT, AND MIKKBAI WATMt MaHOTAOTO*T HI6H-STREBT. AOOXLUO),



tfOBTHERN ASSUid^CE COMPANY. • -' "^ FIRE AND LIFE. ESTABLISHED 1836. ; CAPITAL, £2,000,000. RESERVE FUND, £800,000. FIRE DEPARTME NT. INSURANCES against fire are effected on nearly every description o"f property at current rates of premium, and losses promptly settled. LIFE DEPARTMENT. The rates charged in Australia are the same as those in England, being calculated on the latest , ' data of mortality there, and will be found peculiarly •• favourable to Assurer*. ' The Life Business ii divided into two distinct Branches :— 1. THE NON-PARTICIPATION BRANCH, the Assured in which receive no additions to their Policies, the premiums being calculated on the lowest scale consistent with safety ; and 2. THE PARTICIPATION BRANCH, in which the .whole profits, ' Jess a fixed per-oentage of the {premiums; for management and guarantee of the .' sums assured, belong to ; the Policy-holders ; and, in reckoning these profits, ,the Company is, under its ■ new Act .of .Parliament (1865), preoluded from ' deducting anything beyond what is actually paid away as commission to agents. The necessity felt by, all purely Mutual Societies of settiag aside a portion of their profits to form a guarantee fund is in this wwavy v avoided, and at the same time that economy which is the boast of the mutual system is insured,. 