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Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 40, 11 October 1851, Page 8

Lyttelton, Sept. 20th, 1851. ly/TESSRS. COOKSON, BOWLER, k -L'-L Co., beg to intimate that they have commenced Business in Lyttelton as Merchants, Custom-House and General Commission Agents. REFERENCES. 1 London .... Messrs. Matheson & Co. \ Glasgow .... — H. Walker & Co. Newcastle-O7i-Tyne — W. I. Cookson & Co. Sydney .... — Tuacker & Co. AGENTS. London .... Messrs. F. Young & Co. „ .... — F. Mangles & Co. CORRESPONDENTS. '' t j Wellington . . . Messrs. W.Bowleu, Son & Co. Place of Business at present, on the Esplanade, opposite the Custom-House. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON jFtre nntf %iic Insurance ©otnpan». Established 1836.— Empowered by Acts of Parliament. OFFICES, 8 & 10, WALTER-STREET, LIVERPOOL; 20 & 21, POULTRY, LONDON. Trustees. Sir Thomas Bernard Birch, Bart., M.P. Adam Hodgson, Esq. ( S. H. Thompson, Esq. Directors in Liverpool. Chairman. —William Nicol, Esq. Deputy-Chairmen. —J. C. Ewart, Esq., J. Hornby, Esq. Thomas Broeklebank, Esq. John Hore, Esq. William Dixon, Esq. George H. Lawrence, Esq. William Earle, Esq. Harold Littledale, Esq. T. Steuart Gladstone, Esq. John Marriott, Esq. George Grant, Esq. Edward Moon, Esq. Francis A. Hamilton, Esq. Charles Saundera, Eeq. Francis Haywood, Esq. H. Stolterfoht, Esq. Robert Higgin, Esq. John Swainson, Esq. George Holt, Esq. James Aspinall Tobin, Esq. - ' Swinton Boult, Esq. Secretary. Directors in London. Chairman. —William Ewart, Esq., M.P. Deputy-Chairman. —George Fred. Young, Esq. William Brown, Esq., M.P. Hon. Frederick Ponsonby. Sir W. P. De Bath, Bart. John Ranking, Esq. Matthew Forster, Esq. M.P. James M. Rosseter, Esq. Frederick Harrison, Esq. Seymour Tenlon, Esq. James Hartley, Esq. Swinton Boult, Esq. Ross De Mangles, Esq.,M.P. Benjamin Henderson, Esq., Resident Secretary. Auditors. —T. B. Blackburne, Esq., and D. James, Esq. Bankers. —Bank, op Liverpool, Union Bank of London. CAPITAL AND RESOURCES. The Amount of Capital subscribed exceeds 1,500,0001. Capital paid up and in course of payment 10 0 Reserved Surplus Fund . 131,452 10 O Investment Fluctuation do. 40,000 0 0 -^rire Insurance Guarantee do. 29,568 18 11 Life do. Accumulation do. 67,581 19 3 268,603 8 2 jP460,025 18 2 The Liability of the Proprietors is declared by the Company's Acts of Parliament to be unlimited. BUSINESS. Insurance against Loss by Fire of Property of every description, both at home and abroad. Life Insurance in all its branches, including the Endowment of Children and Adults; and the sale and 'purchase of Annuities, Reversions, and contingent Interests. Insurance of Leases for Years, by which the value of Property so held is made equal to freehold. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Since its establishment in 1836, the Company has p;iid, for Losses by Fire, the sum of 241,6001. This fact is the best evidence of the service il has rendered the public, and the strongest ground on which to rest its claims to public favour. The Premiums are moderate ; the settlement of c'aiws liberal and prompt. Insurances are effected in the British Colonies and in Foreign Countries, as well as throughout the United Kingdom. Farmino Stock. —The Stock and Utensils'*I* l one F.-irm may be insured in one sum, if subject t' average, at 3*. 6d. per cent, or, free from average; at 4s. per cent.; in either case it is not chargeable with Duty. No Charge for Policy, however small the Amount of Insurance. Agents at Wellington, Messrs. William Bowler, Son & Co. At lyttelton, a Messrs. Cookson, Bowler, & Co., who are now/ 1 prepared to effect Policies commencing on th«/ 14th inst. !