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Insurance. ZEALAND INSURANCE „V ■ COMPANY. Established 1859. 9 Incorporated under the Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1860, and the Joint Stock Companies' Act Amendment Act, 1872. CAPITAL - • • £1,000,000 (In 100,000 Shares of £10 each). PAID CAPITAL - • £200,000 RE-INSURANCE FUND • £40,000 v ' , DIRECTORS. '>%- ■■ Chairman, Hon. James Wiihamson. Deputy-Chairman, Samuel Browsing, Esq. ~ J. S MiOPAiiiiiNE, Esq. Thos, Rosseil, Ksq. .. B. Owen, Esq. C. J. Stone, Esq. ' 44' W. C, Wilson, Esq. SOLICITORS, • '-Mbssbs Whitaker and Rdsseh, ' — BANKERS. TUhk or New Zealand. In consequence of the extension of the business of this Company, and the numerous and urgent applications which have been made, both by the public and the Proprietary, to increase the Capital and to widen its operations by the issue of new Shares, and thereby increase the number of Shareholders, an extraordinary meeting of Shareholders was held on the 9th instant, when the Company resolved to increase the . Capital to One Million Pounds, by the creation of 100,000 Shares of £10 each. Of these Shares it has been determined to offer 50,000 to the public, the remaining 50,000 Shares to .be allotted to the present Shareholders in exchange for their interest in the Company. The present Proprietors thus offer one-half of the Company's infcetpt for sale. The Shares now offered to the public are of £10 each, of which £2 is to be paid up; they will be sold at £410s each, or Fifty Shillings premium, payable as follows :— £010 0 per share on application g£l 0 0 „ on allotment £10 0 „ on 31st May, 1875 £10 0 „ on 30th November, 1875 £10 0 „ on 3lßt May 1876 u £4 10 0 One-half of the sums to be paid from time to time will be credited to Capital, excepting the last payment, when 5s will go to Capital, thus making the complete payment to Capital Account of £2 per share, _ Any sum received on account of Capital before the 30th November next will be credited with interest at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum from the date of allotment to that, date, and from that date they will earry full dividend rate, and participate in all the future advantages 'accruing in proportion to the amount of capital 'paid. Any Shareholder may prepay his instalments, and thereupon his prepayments, after 30th November next, will carry full divi-„ dend rate from date of payment. In case of default being made in payment of any instalment, the Directors to have full power to forfeit any Shares in respect of which such default is made, and to sell or otherwise dispose of them as they think fit. To ensure a general distribution, the 50,000 Shares now offered will be divided as follows: —Auckland, 15,000; Dunedin, 10,000; Christchurch, 7,000 j Wellington, 6,000; Nelson, 2,000; Taranaki, 1,000; Napier, 2,000 j'Westland, 1,000; Wanganui, 1,000 ; reserved for the Australian Colonies, 5,000, and the Directors reserve the right not to allot to any of the places named any greater number ■ than that allowed to each place. A The applications for Shares will be considered and allotted in order of date of application, the first applicants, if eligible as Proprietors, will be first considered. The Directors do not bind themselves to allot any Shares to any person they may consider not eligible as a Shareholder, and they may return the application money to such applicant. The present Proprietors will thus receive 50,000 shares of- £2 each, frepresented by the present paid up Capital of the Company; the present Re-Insurance Fund of £40,000 will belong to the New Account to begin from 30th November next, in which the New Shareholders will participate in proportion to the Capital paid up The new Shareholders payments of £2 per Share of Capital will make the paid-up Capital £200,000; the Company ■ will then stand with a Subscribed Capital of £1,000,000, with £200,000 paid-up, and a ReInsurance Fund of £40,000. The Premium on the new Shares, and aU the fund 3 and property of the Company as it now exists over and above the present Paid-up Capital of £100,000 and the £40,000 Re-Insurance Fund will belong to and be divisible among the old Shareholders. The steady progress which this Company has made is well known. The original amount paid by the first Shareholders was £4,845, an additional issue of new shares was made in 1862, and £3,372 was then capitalised, making in all £8,227. The Capital now stands at ' £100,000, it having grown to this amount from time to time out ot profits. In addition to this, and out of profits also, a Re-Insurance Fund of £40,000, and a Reserve Fund of 35,000, have been added to the Company's assets. And during the whole period of the Company's existence, the Shareholders have received dividends at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, and the amount paid in dividends has been £72,171. Losses amounting to nearly half a million have occurred since the commencement of business, and have invariably been promptly met. The amount of accumulated funds belonging to the Compiny, and invested, now stands at £214,000. The investments consists of Real Property, Mortgages, Bank, Loan Company, Gas, and other Shares, City Debentures, &c. The interest accruing from these investments would pay on the proposed increased capital of £200,000 a rate of interest to the Shareholders equal to 1\ per cent, that is to eay if all the premiums were lost the Company would be able to declare a dividend of 74 per cent, from the present invested accumulations, whereas; ths invested funds, when the present plan is. carried out, will begin with £240,000. The progress of the Company is shewn in the subjoined tabular statement:— Amount of * monn t of V. 1 YeaI * HS" \ai, £ s. (1. & s. d. £ s. d. 'S 3,729 i 5 51511 7 [ 1801 -6.390 910 3,802 11 3 118G2 12,595 11 3 1,170 8 2 618G3 32,528 14 5 9,404 1 4 1804 ■ 47,372 17 9 28,358 9 0 • 1865 47,110 8 7 32,270 16 2 : 1860 45,852 3. 4 20,730 2 2 " ' 1867 43,105 19 0 49,835 10 6 . • -1868 60,561 1 3 41,730 7 9 1809 58,803 18 9 57,534 12 6 1870 65,301 12 1 51,864 15 3 1871 66,549 14 4 35,905 511 1872 79,356 010 44,478 8 7 " 1873 89,428 11 4 50,417 19 7 1874 107,643 17 2 01,872 19 0 Total £ 755,330 4 3 490,037 19 3 72,171 6 4 * Twelve monts ending Hay in each year. But reference to the last Half-Yearly Report of the Directors shows in a Btill more striking manner the present rapid growth of the Company. From this Report it will be seen that the Premiums for the Half-year ending 31st May,-1874, were £63,216, being an increase of £18,790 upon the preceding Half-year, and an increase of £11,495 upon the corresponding Half-year of 1873; and as the Directors have Since taken further steps for increasing the Company's business and extending the sphere of its operations, they see no reason why the future of the Company should not be a3 successful as the past, the more so aa it is hoped an extended list of Shareholders will materially