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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 881, 4 May 1903, Page 4

THE AUSTRALIAN WIDOWS’ FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Ltd. Conducted on Purely Mutual Principles. Accumulated Funds Exceed| ... IM ... £1,500,000 Annual Revenue Exceeds ... £ 237,000

SEECIAX. FEATURES. X. Exceptionally Large Reserves, giving Absolute Security to Members. 2. Low Rates of Premium. 3. Surrender Values applied to keep Policies in Force. 4. All Profits belong to the Members. 5. Expenses of Management on Most Economical Scale. 6. Claims paid Immediately upon jrroof of Death and Title. 7. Reserves Based upon the “ Severest Standard known to Aclurial Science.”

NEW SYSTEM OF LIFE ASSURANCE, exempting from Payment of Premiums when the Assured is either temporarily or permanently incapacitated, either by accidental bodily injury, or by illness, or by mental disorder. Head Office for New Zealand: 6 Custom House Quay, Wellington.

Directors: John G. W. Aitken, J.P. [Aitken, Wilson and Co,. Merchants], Alexander li. Turnbull [W. & G. Turnbuli &. Co., Merchants], Walter Fell, M.D., M.R.C.S. Resident Secretary: V. H. .Baxter. T. G. LAWLESS, Diatrct Apert. Gisborne.

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ft: l 111 Proprietors of WOODS’ OR LI AT PEPPERMINT K’J CURE beg to announce that they have inaugurated a COMPETITION OPEN TO ALL CITIZENS OF AUSTRALASIA. whereby cash prizes to the value of S 3-5 will be awarded to the authors of the Best 'Verses on subjects upon the conditions hereunder set out. The Competition is being held partly with the object of keeping this Great Cure prominently before the public, and thereby being of incalculable benefit to those who have the misfortune to be affected by Coughs or Colds; and also to encourage literary effort amongst Citizens.

-CCNDSTIOKSThc Competition is opsn to all, without entrance fee whatever, and the Prize „ry will he iliiilmted as follows: To the Author of the best set of Verses - - To the Author of the next best set of Verses - To the Author of the third best set of Verses - S2O £2lO 535

The .lodges (whose decision shall be final) are gentlemen prominent in the educational world, viz. : DANIEL LEVY, Esq., B.A LL.B., Scholar Prizeman and Gold Medallist of Sydney University; VICTOR A. ADAMS, Esq., Principal St. Mark's Crescent Collette, Darling Point Sydney; GF.OHGE PITTY BARBOUR, Esq., M A., Scholar and Prizeman of Sydney University. Competitors must send six verses of eight lines each. Two verses being on subjects connected with Australasia. Two on humorous or topical subjects. Two on any subject or subjects the Competitor chooses. Kverv verse must embody in it a reference to WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE. CniTinrlitors must send verses in an envelope addressed to “Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure Co., Box 914, G.P.0., Sydney," not, later than the SOtta day of July, 1903, with a nmn-Ue-pluine at the mot thereof, and must also um-lo'e their full names and addresses on a separate slip of paper. A Competitor may send any number of sets of verses, provided that each set be enclosed in a separate envelope. Any Competitor may gain all the prizes offered, provided that ho or she submits three sets of verses of greater merit than those of the other Competitors.

The result of the Competition will be announced, and the prizes will be payable not later than the 30th September, 1903. '/Vie Proprietors reserve the right to finhlUh any of the. vertex suhmillul by Competitors, whether nn aw/id or not.

Telphone No. 149.] [Box No. 74. CASH TIMBER YARD . Gladstone Boad MACKHEU. & CBUEY, GENERAL TIMBER MERCHANTS, BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS, Have in Stock and for Sale: OKA AAf‘l BEET OE TIMBER, %Jt!)U f UUU Consisting of— Kauri, Totara, Matai, aud Rimu in all olasses; Planed, P.T.G.,Rusticated Weatherboards, and Match Lining, Palinga, Gothic Pickets, Yerandah Brackete and Drops, Mouldings, House Blocks, Carved Rimu and Kauri, Mantle Trusses; Totara, Kauri, Rimu and Sugar Pine Doors j Kauri and Totara Sashes. JOINERY of any description made from thoroughly-seasoned timber. Timber prepared for Carving a speciality. A Splendid Line of Enamelled Wood Mantelpiooes. . Register Grates, Tiles, and all kinds of Ironmongery for General Building purposes. Nails, Locks, Hinges, &c., in Stock. Slates, Eire Buoks, and Bricks, Hydraulic Lime and Cement.

SHERIDAN AND_GO. MANUFACTURERS’* MERCHANTS, INSURANCE, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS, HOTEL BROKERS, VALUATORS* SHIPPING, CUSTOM-HOUSE, AND FORWARDING AGENTSGENERAL CARRIERS, Etc, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS* Q PECIAL attention is being paid to this branch of the business, and clients both in town and country; may rely upon being supplied with only the purest and best matured Liquors. SOLE AGENTS forBELL’S PERTH WHISKY HAIG AND HAIG WHISKY WHYTE & MACKAY WHISKY The Finest Whiskies now procurable^

SHIPMENTS OE TIMBEB ABBIVING WEEKLY By all Coastal Schooners and Steamers, from Auckland, Mercury Lay, Taiarua, and Napier. Uheap for Cas/i. ESTIMATES UIYEN EuKK. MACKBELL & COLLEY, having a Largo Stall of Efficient Workmen, are in a position to undertake and satisfactorily complete any class of Building Work they may be entrusted with. NOIE THE AdDBKSS—MACKBELL & COLLEY, Builders and Contractors, Gladstone Itoad.

Also, Agents for— MUMM’S EXTRA DRY CHAMPAGNE^ “ Mumm’s the worth, FENFOLD’S AUSTRALIAN WINES (Gold Medal winners at Paris) i “ HAVELOCK ” TOBACCO (Purest American LeafJj

Gisborne Representatives for the AUSTRALIAN ALLIANCE ASSURANCE CO. As Agents for the— N.Z* CARRYING COMPANY* We undertake all classes of Carrying and Forwarding work at LOWEST RATES* Agents for the— ROYAL BAR-LOCK TYPEWRITER .(Proved to he “ The Best*:’) SHERIDAN & CO. Ring up 123.,

BRIGHT STREET (Noil Wesley Churoli). Telephone 196. HUMPHREYS AND SONS ENGINEER, BOILERMAKER, BLACKSMITH, and COACHBUILBBR, /TIBS ENGINEERING DEPARTJL. bjeK-T, undes the suparsisiaa da to iKsj HumphraiSs BTEAM a CAS, «fc OIL ENGINES, Erected, Adjusted, or Kssairud, ENGINE * BOILER REQUISITES Keaii la Stock, Agonts for the UNION OIL and GAS ENGINES (Stationary, Portable, and Marino).

WITH TES.TIS WITHOUT TEE.TD W. J. SYKES, SURCEOSt DEHTIST. PRIZE MEDALLIST FOR ARTIFICIAL TEETH .(Established in Gisborne for Eleven Years)

Also, — Gould’s Manufacturing Company’s Cels brated Pumps. Edison Lalaude Batteries. Eloctrio Dynamos. Pulleys, Shafting, and Belting.

HAS REMOVED to more Commodious Premises, in the Upstairs portion of the shop opposite the Firebell and F. Hall’s', painter, Entrance from Bright street. Teeth Extracted* from 10 .to 12— One Shilling. Private Residence : Clifford street, ,Whataupoko. ; Telephone, No. 10,

EUSCUEAR w .CROSSCUT! KAffiS GulleUed And Sharpened* ESTIMATES GIVEN foe all kinds of RUTTER EAdTORY MACHINERY L&KIS MOWERS AND EARMARKS Mads and Repaired! S&ARRIAGB PAINTING ANR TRIMMING Skim Ein the Prsmlse** TYRES CUT DAILY, JSstisaate* Given for All .Class id Work, Old Cast Iron and Brass .Wanted,

ALWAYS IN FRONT 1 ALWAYS IN FRONT ! PRIZE COMPETITION. CLOSING JUNE SOth* C. MORSE, Of the City. I-lairdressiug and Shaving' Saloon, Oilers Two Prizes of £2 10s and '£l respectively to the person forwarding the greatest number of Vanity Fair and Old Judge Cigarette Packets.

5000 MEN WANTED, 6000 MEN WANTED, 5000 MEN WANTED.

OLD AND NEtV CUSTOMERS WEE .COMED AT—i Cl idfeQ)Ml JL SAM. EARLE’S EA SHION ABLE HAIRQRESSIMfI SALOON iOppoßl.to Uaioa Bani), Us Boys Kept, Only First-cU*» Hands in 'Attendance, Agent for— WA'SM.UTH’S CORN CURE. WANTED KNOWN The Gisborne Times oan be prooured at G. Warren's, opposite Fireball Gladstone road

EVERYONE CAN COMPETE, EVERYONE CAN COMPETE^ Only One Condition : PACKETS MUST BEAR MORSE’S STAMP, BOTTLED ALE m STOUT. rj^HE la Now Delivering BOTTLED ALE ADD STOUT In Quarts (8s) and Pints (4s 6a). jgBEWERY

QUALITY EQUAL TO ANY IN THE COLONY. Country Orders Promptly Attended to Telephone . . No. 4. Cash 'Buyer of Bottlea in any quantity— Quarts is dozen, Pints 9d dozen.