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Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 41, 18 October 1851, Page 9 (Supplement)

£200. WANTED on first-rate Security, in this Town, for 12 months or longer, as may be agreed upon, at the Colonial rate of Interest. Apply at the Office of this Paper. Lyttelton, Sept. 20th, 1851. MESSRS. COOKSON, BOWLER, & Co., beg to intimate that they have commenced Business in Lyttelton as Merchants, Custom-House and General Commission Agents. REFERENCES. London .... Messrs. Matheson & Co. Glasgow .... — H. Walker & Co. Newcastle-on-Tyne — W. I. Cookson & Co. Sydney .... — Thacker & Co. AGENTS. London .... Messrs. F. Young & Co. „ .... — F. Mangles & Co. CORRESPONDENTS. Wellington . . . Messrs. W.Bowler, Son & Co. Place of Business at present, on the Esplanade, opposite the Custom-House. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON JFtre antf %iit Insurance ©ompann. 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 Saundf.rs, Esq. Francis Haywood, Esq. H. Stolterfoht, Esq. Robert Higgin, Esq. John Swainson, Esq. George Holt, Esq. JamesAspinall 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 Teulon, Esq. James Hartley, Esq. Swinton Bonlt, Esq. RossDeMangles,Esq.,M.P. Benjamin Henderson, Esq., Resident Secretary. Auditors. —T. B. Blackbuf.ne, Esq., and D. James, Esq. Bankers. —Bank, op Liverpool, Union Bank of London. CAPITAL AND RESOURCES. The Amount op Capital subscribed exceeds 1,500,0002. Capital paid up and in course of payment j^191,422 10 0 Reserved Surplus Fund . 131,452 10 0 Investment Fluctuation do. 40,000 0 0 Fire Instiiance Guarantee do. 29,568 18 11 Life do. Accumulation do. 67,581 19 3 268,603 8 jf460,025 18 2 The Liability of the Proprietors is declared by the Company's Acts of Parliament to le 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 paid, for Losses by Fire, the sum of 241 ,6001. This fact is the best evidence of the service it has rendered the pnblic, and the strongest ground on which to rest its claims to public favour. The Premiums are moderate ; the settlement of claims liberal and prompt. Insurances are effected in the British Colonies and in Foreign Countries, as well as throughout the United Kingdom. Farming Stock.—The Stock and Utensils on one Farm may be insured in one sum, if subject to average, at 3s. 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, Messrs. Cookson, Bowler, & Co., who aTe now prepared to effect Policies commencing on the 14th inst. \ ■■■.; '