A NEW ZEALAND COMPANY TAKES OVER INSURANCE BUSINESS OF TWO LONDON COMPANIES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3670, 19 April 1883, Page 3

A NEW ZEALAND COMPANY TAKES OVER INSURANCE BUSINESS OF TWO LONDON COMPANIES.

NEW SOUTH WALES AND THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE. VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT URGING ANNEXATION OF NEW GUINEA. WHEAT STATISTICS OF VICTORIA AND SOUTH AUSTRALIA. THE AUSTRALASIAN SENDING AN AGRICULTURAL REPORTER TO AMERICA. MELBOURNE. Wednesday. The Union Insurance Company of New Zealand has taken over the current risks _of the Victorian agencies of the Standard Fire Insurance Company of London and tho Fire Association of London. This day. The Victorian Government lias invited the Ncav South Wales and South Australian Governments to join in instructing their Agents-General in London to communicate with the Imperial authorities in support, of the annexation of New Guinea. Mr James Service has already telegraphed to Mr Murray Smith, the Victorian representative in London, requesting him to favor annexation. The Victorian wheat statistics of the northern comities have been published. They show that last season the yield Avas 5,820,000 bushels, producing an average of 8.65 to the acre, against 0,300,000 bushels and an average of 9.-10 last- year. The Australasian is sending an agricultural reporter on a lengtbencd'tour through the United States.