4th Jan, As usual at the beginning of the year, the General Manager for the Bast of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States has received his special telegram from New York, giving approximately the results of the past year's working. so deeply into China and sent out The Equiltble struck its roots its branches so widely, that the continuance of its success is of great interest to most of us, and it is satisfactory to learn that in 1898 its assets increased by over three and three-quarter millions sterling and its surplus by nearly one million. The new business done in 1898 amounted to nearly thirty-five and a-half millions sterling, 2 sum which testifies with trumpet tongue to the estimation in which the Equitable is held, and the activity of its officials and agents.
'A company which has assets to the amount of over fifty-three millions sterling and a surplus of assets over liabilities of nearly eleven and a-half millions offers the most absolute security to intending assurers. When to this security are added enterprise in the invention of new forms of assurance, and unfailing liberality in the settlement of claims, no-one, however. rosy his position and prospects, is justified in neglecting to' provide for his family or his own old age by the adoption of some one of the methods which an office like the Equitable offers.
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