BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY

OFFICE—4, QUEEN STREET PLACE, LONDON, E.C.

Capital.-A QUARTER OF A MILLION STERLING.

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TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT, May, 1884.

NEW BUSINESS. 2,097 Policios issued for

£411,099 New Premium Income

12,566 BUSINESS IN FORCE. 26,704 Policies, assuring

£4,948,145 REVENUE OF THE YEAR. Premiums

£144,626 Interest, &c. ...

37,695

£182,321 ACCUMULATED FUND. Laid by in the Year

£65,507 Accumulated Fund on 31st Jan., 1884 (equal to 76 por cont. of tho not promiums received upon policies in forco)

£938,609 Accumulated Fund at end of October, 1884

£987,653 Claims and Bonuses paid under Company's Policios

£800,808 Average Roversionary Bonus, for 27 years, about 14 per cent. per annum.

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HOUSE PROPERTY AND INVESTMENT COMPANY

(LIMITED), 92, CANNON STREET, LONDON, E.O.
Capital One Million, in 40,000 fully paid-up Shares of £25.
For the PURCHASE and SALE of PRODUCTIVE and PROGRESSIVE HOUSE PROPERTY, and
IMPROVING the DWELLINGS of the WORKING CLASSES on the Self-supporting Principle.

Capital paid up £660,850.
Reserve Fund, £82,921.
Dividends amounting to £224,881 have beon paid to Shareholders.
The remaining 1218 Shares of the Seventh Issue in course of allotment, at £6 per share premium.
Estates in possession-2,513 Houses and Shops, costing £800,631.
Four per cent. Debentures issued for three, five, seven, or ten years.

Fifty-Three of the tenants of the Company, availing themselves of the peculiar facilities afforded, have become owners of their own dwellings.

Shops and houses for sale in excellent positions at low prices, with exceptional facilities offered to purchasers.

The Company has various houses to let in highly healthy situations, a certificate of which, by an eminent medical authority, can be seen at the office of the Company.

A report on the sanitary state of the Company's property is made to the Board weekly.

Prospectus and explanatory Pamphlets, entitled “Landlord and Tenant," also "Five Minutes Talk about the House Property and Investment Company," and Share Application Forms, may be had at the offices of the Company, 92, Cannon Street, London, E.C.

JOHN THOMAS MILLER, Secretary.

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Chairman - SIR Wm. MCARTHUR, K.C.M.G., M.P. This Society has been established Forty years, and has issued above Fortythree Thousand Policies. Assurance Fund

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WINKS & SONS CHEAP MUSIC LIST.

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Price 2d. each; Postage id. extra. Twelve Copies, post free, 28.

Strictly correct, well printed, full music size, on good paper, NOTICE.-In ordering, it is not necessary to give the titles of the pieces. All that is required is to mention, the name of the series, viz., “ Winks & Son's Cheap Music," and say the Nos. required.

Songs with Pianoforte Accompaniment. 208 Ah, ne Kissed mo 68 Heart of Oak

2 Only an Ivy Leaf 103 A Life on the Ocean Wave 181 Here's to the Year that awa' 352 Pilgrim of Love 333 All things love thee, so do I 192 Home once More

198 Pilot 97 Anchor's Weighed (Tenor) 225 Home, Sweet Home

366 Parting Hour(Mendelssohn) 220 Anchor's Weighed (Bass) 242 Huntingtower

13 Please give me a Penny 342 Annie Laurie 246 I'd be a Butterfly

12 Poor Old Joe 336 As long as the wheel of my 319 I'll meet her when the sun

72 Red, White, and Blue mill turns round

197 Ring the Bell, Watchman 190 Auld Lang Syne

271 I love to think of the days 332 Roast Beef of Old England 164 Auld Robin Gray

when I was young

102 Robin Adair 277 Baby Mine 305 Isle of Beauty

269 Rose of Lucerne 196 Banks of Allan Water 250 Ivy Green

139 Roses underneath the Snow 38 Bay of Biscay 160 Jack and Poll

262 Rule Britannia 292 Beautiful Dreamer

98 John Barleycorn

369 Say a Kind Word 183 Beautiful Isle of the Sea 143 John Anderson, my Joe

140 Sally in our Alley 179 Beautiful Star

301 Johnny is Waiting

for Me 348 Scoich Lassie Jean 162 Be kind to loved ones

214 Keep a light heart (night 320 Silver Moonlight winds are 15 Belle Mahone

113 Kiss me, and whisper good. 9 Belle Mahone's Reply

blowing 229 Land of the Leal

353 So early in the Morning 34 Ben Bolt 257 Lass of Richmond Hill

123 Soldier's Farewell 260 Bid me Discourse 156 Lass o' Gowrie

249 Soldier's Tear 276 Blind Orphan Girl 182 Last Rose of Summer

75 Somebody whispered 118 Bloom is on the Rye 377 Let us Live and Forget.

316 Some love to roam 135 Blue Bells of Scotland 362 Life let us Cherish

73 Spider and Fly 227 Brave Old Oak (Bass)

231 Light of other days (est 200 Still I love Thee 251 British Grenadiers 119 Little birdie,sing your sweet. 186 Storm

(Gold 159 Caller Herring 256 Little Bow of Blue

237 Silver Threads among the 365 Canadian Boat Song

238 Little Bunch of Roses(Lane 329 Sweet Violets 35 Cherry Ripe

206 Little old log Cabin in the 269 Swiss Toy Girl (thee 137 Chiming bells of long ago 325 Little Green Leaf in the Bible 233 Tell me, Mary, how to woo 14 Come, birdie, come

253 Little pattering footsteps 201 Tell me, my Heart 155 Comin' thro' the rye 221 Little Sister's better now

339 That night when mother 204 Come where my Love lies 172 Little Sister's gone to Sleep

died dreaming

209 Little Sweetheart, come and 359 The Clouds are Rolling Bry 203 Cottage by the Sea

154 Long, long ago (kiss me 79 There came a Cry to England 213 Day when You'll forget me 334 Longing for Home

202 Thorn 31 Death of Nelson (Tenor) 275 Love at Home

185 Those Evening Bells 218 Death of Nelson (Bass) 371 Maiden's Prayer

1 'Tis but a little faded Flow 207 Death of Poor Cock Robin

370 Many Happy Returns of 32 Tom Bowling (Tenor) 263 Does your Heart beat true

the Day

373 True to his Ship
to me?
(darling 357 Marseillaise

33 Tom Bowling (Bass). 313 Don't be angry with me, 222 Mary of Argyle

195 Vacant Chair 335 Don't be foolish, Joe 115 Men of Harlech

29 Veteran (Bass) 138 Down by the river side 337 Mermaid

199 Village Blacksmith 126 Down beneath the old yew 163 Minstrel Boy

36 Wait for the Waggon
tree
7 Mistletoe Bough

330 Wait till the clouds roll by ton Down among the Dead Men 70 Miller of the Dee (Dreams 228 Wapping Old Stairs 110 Empty Cradle

(Bass) 368 Mother Kissed me in my 346 Watching and Waiting 20 Every bullet has its billet 121 My heart's been won by thee 193 Watching for Pa izo Faces faded one by one 210 My Bud in Heaven

124 Waves of Life 122 Faithful friends 306 My Heart's best Love

341 We are coming, sister Mary 146 Far away

264 Nobody's Darling but Mine 235 When the Swallows home. 265 Fire in the Grate 326 Nobody's Darling sleeps

ward fly 217 Fireman

peacefully now

230 When the Tido comes in 258 First Violet-Mendelssohn 380 Not while Britannia's alive 310 When you and I were *25, For we're going to be happy 224 Oh, dem Golden Slippers 171 Friar of Orders Grey

young, Maggie 254 Oh, gently breathe

191 Where are you going to my 109 Gaily the Troubadour

212 Oh! Ruddier than the cherry 24 Gipsy King

pretty Maid 340 Oh, touch those chords again 381 White Squall (town 64 Gipsy's Warning(& Chorus) 272 Old Blacksmith (Bass)

267 Within a mile of Edinboro' 117 God save the Queen (Song 315 Old Church Beli

310 When you and I were young 152 Good have long ago (us all 248 Old Towler

30 Why are you wandering here 345 Good Health and Success to 385 Old Wooden Rocker

158 Wolf 16 Good Old Jeff

(Flowers 328 On a Bright Summer Morn 37 Won't you bay my pretty 116 Good News from Home

(Love Letters)

318 World is on the move 63 Grandfather's Clock [halls 194 One Bumper at Parting

314 Write me a letter from home 255 Harp that once thro' Tara's 364 Only a Pansy Blossom.

343 Ye Banks and Braes

Vocal Duets. 54 A B C Duet

56 Gipsy Duet from "Il Trova. 319 See, from Ocean rising 55 Albion, on thy Fertile Plains

tore

349 To all you Ladies now on 3 All's Well 57 I know a Bank

Land (Trio). 365 Canadian Boat Song (2 or 3 291 I would that my Love

60 When a little Farm we keep voices) 53 Larboard Watch

184 Wreath (Ye Shepherds, tell 59 Country Courtship (comic) 58 Minute Gun at Sea

me) trio 266 Pilot Brave

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Winks & Son’s Cheap Music List (continued).

Planoforte Pieces and Dance Musio. 344 Adieux to Pianoforte, Beet. 130 Golden Daisy Schottische 300 Minuet, from “ Samson hoven 296 Golden Slippers Polka

108 Mountain Belle Schottische 77 Agnes Sorel Quadrille 785 Good Bye at the Door

286 Parige, 0 Cara, from “La t91 All around the Maypole 95 Gloria, from "12th Mass'

Traviata” (easy) 293 Alpine Polka

322 Hallelujah Chorus (smith 82 Prince of Wales' March 297 Anthem in C, by Mozart

17 Handel's Harmonious Black- 211 Purcell's Ground, with vars. 1176 Ash Grove (easy) 80 Highland Schottische

274 Queen Polka 388 Batiste's Andante in G(easy) 169 Happy Hours Schottische 168 Rainbow Schottische too Bird Polka

+175 Home, Sweet Home (easy) 4 Rats Quadrille 332 Bird Waltz 268 Il Corricollo

303 Rinaldo, by Handel 91 Bloom is on the Rye 354 Il Trovatore Quadrille

389 Rolling Clouds Valse 316 Biue Bells of Scotland (with 784 Johnny Sands

390 Rustic Polka
variations)
323 Joyful Peasant (easy)

387 Sailor's Hornpipe
& Blue Danube Waltz
94 Kyrie, from "12th Mass

188 Santa Lucia 189 Break of Day Schottische 174 Keel Row (easy)

304 Scherzo, by Leon 161 British Grenadier's March 144 La Chatelaine

311 Shepherd Boy 78 Bunch of Roses Schottische 6 Lancers

141 Signal March 239 But the Lord is mindful 308 La Poste Quadrille

384 Silvery Waves March 76 Caledonian Quadrille 180 La Sympathie

62 Silvery Waves (easy) 19a Caller Herring 23 La Varsoviana

187 Sir Roger de Coverley 294 Camellia Polka

5 Les Cloches des Monastere 136 Sweet Kiss Polka 383 Chopin' Funeral March

19 Little Bo Peep Quadrille 338 Sweet May Walız (easy) 83 Country dances, ist selection

(for Juveniles)

134 Sweetheart Schottische 187 Country dances, and selec- 131 Little Birdie Quadrille

1177 St. Patrick's Day (easy) tion 132 Little Birdie Polka

290 Still so gently (easy) 360 Cujus Animam (easy). 133 Little Daisy Redowa

165 Ten Little Niggers Quadrille 67 Dead March in Saul"

321 Little Coquette Waltz(easy) 145 Tout a la Joie Polka 107 Dewdrop Waltz

386 Little Pansy Blossom Valse 273 True as the Stars (easy duet) 69 Duke of York's March

(easy)

270 Turkish March 18 Doctrinen Waltz (complete) #173 Last Rose of Summer(easy) 81 Une Petite Fleur 347 Elfin Antics 302 Last Judgment, Spohr

205 Verre en Main Polka 188 Evening Echoes Waltz 178 Largo, by Handel

170 Violetta Polka Mazurka 147 Fairy Wedding Waltz

287 Libiamo, Libiamo, from 295 Way of the World (A 289 Fair Shines the Moon (easy)

“La Traviata" (easy)

Musical Curiosity) 240 Fall of Paris

61 Maiden's Prayer Iground II Weber's last Waltz 99 Garibaldi's Hymn of Italy, 187 My lodging is on the cold 96 Wedding March 236 Gavotte, "La Napolitaine 186 March of the Cameron Men 259 William Tell Quadrille t93 Giant Galop

288 March, from "Norma"(casy) 299 With Verdure Clad 189 Gipsy Warning Waltz

324 Men of Harlech (easy)

Sacred Songs. 134 Abide with me

10 Hallelujah Chorus (with 351 Pilgrims of the Night 53 Are you one of the Ninety

words)

382 Rest and Nine?

104 Hark, the Vesper Hymn 21 Rest in the Lord 111 Angels, ever bright and fair

(Solo with Chorus)

46 Rock'd in the Cradle of the 278 Arm, arm, ye Brave (Bass) 149 Hold the Fort

Deep 206 Before Jehovah's awful 48 Hope

22 Ruth Throne

252 How Beautiful upon the 363 Sabbath Bells xo5 Better Land

Mountains

148 Safe in the Arms of Jesus 49 Charity

241 I know that my Redeemer 375 Scatter Seeds of Kindness 31 City of the Angels

liveth

(there? 244 Sound the Loud Timbrel 361 Consider the Lilies

243 Is there room for Mary 356 Sun of my soul 142 Eve's Lamentation

157 I think when I read the 376 Sweet By-and-bye n9 Follow Jesus

sweet Story

112 Thou art with me, O my 331 Jackson's Te Deum in F

Father 150 Gate Ajar 151 Jesus of Nazareth

261 Vital Spark [River ? 226 Guardian Angel 374 No Tears in Heaven

26 Who will help me o'er the

47 Faith

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