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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 815, 9 January 1868, Page 1

Wanganui Agency. NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE CO., FOR FIRE. MARINE, AND GENERAL INSURANCE. capital ... ... £250,000, With ITnlimited Liability of Shareholders. Incorporated by Act of General Assembly. TT-p a r» Or’t'Tr’F FRASER’S BUILDINGS, AUCKLAND. Fire Department. THIS Company nodertakes the assurance of Stores, Shops, and Buildings in which trades are carried on, Dwellings, Farm Houses, and Merchandise and Goods of every description, at Rates of Premium as advantageous to the assured as those offered by any other office. Marine Department. Goods insured with or without particular average. Claims payable by the Company three months after set dement of same. By effecting insurance on produce to the United Kingdom in this Company the British policy duty of five per cent, is a voiced. Forms of proposal, and every informa tion, can be obtained at the Company’s Offices, of at any of the Company’s agents in New Zealand, Sydney, or Mel bourne. TAYLOR & WATT, Agents for Wanganui. FRANKLIN-& HURST, Sub-agents, Turakina. February 25, 1864 TTTCTORIA FIRE AND MARINE V INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, £200,000. VICTORIA LIFE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, AND SAVINGS INSTITUTE. Capital, £2,000,000. HEAD OFFICE, Melbourne. GEORGE BEA VEN, Agent for Wanganui. Oct. 2, 1867. PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT NOTICE N OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that all payments for Public Works, Contingencies, ic., will be made on the 22nd of each month. Vouchers must be presented at this office on or before the 9ch of each month, to be paid on the 22nd. JOHN NIXON, Provincial Sub-Treasurer. Wanganui Sub-Treasury, Aug. 24, 1867. PARIS EXHIBITION. MESSRS RANSOMES & SIMS, PLOUGHS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Ipswich and London, Beg to give notice to their friends and clients in the colonies that they are exhibiting specimens of their celebrated Machinery, fitted with all the latest improvements, at the Paris Exhibition. ploughs. . Messrs Ransomes & Sims’ new Ploughs gained four out of five prizes at the Royal Agricultural Society’s meeting at Newcastle, and have won, since that time, eighty-two Champion Prizes, besides a large number of prizes gained by farmers’ sons and local ploughmen using these implements. They are fitted with wrought iron frames when sent to the colonies, and will be found to be the cheapest and most durable implements in the market. PORTABLE STEAM ENGINES. The Portable Engines manufactured by Messrs Ransomes & Sims are designed so that light weight, easy and strength of material and good workmanship, an<| simplicity of construction, form the principal' features of their general arrangement; they are specially celebrated for tbeir small consumption of ’fuel in proportion to the power developed, I If A They are specially adapted for Thrashing, Pumping, Sawing, and Grinding, and have been awarded many prizes at various exhibitions, besides testimonials of efficiency from Public Companies, Manufacturers, and Agriculturalists using them. STEAM THRHSHING MACHINES. Messrs Ransomes & Sims’ Steam Thrashing Machines have an unrivalled reputation in & the Colonies for their cheapness and durability, and for the perfect sample and quontity of the grain thrashed with a small consumption of fuel. HORSE POWER THRASHING AND WINNOWING MACHINES, Are of the newest and most improved construction. Corn Mills, Chaff Cutters, and Patent Bruising Mills are constructed with all the newest improvements, and are the cheapest in the market. MESSRS RANSOMES <fc SIMS’ Have devoted a great deal of attention to the manfactureof Stationary Engines, Steam Pumping Machinery for Contractors’ Purposes, and Irrigation, and will furnish Drawings and Prices on application. Orders may be transmitted through any Merchant of Implement Agent in the . colonies.