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Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 43, 1 November 1851, Page 9 (Supplement)

Lyttelton, Sept. 20th, 1851. TV/TESSRS. COOKSON, BOWLER, & -L"J- 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 ftMD LONDON JFire nxtfs %ite Ensurance ©omuanß. Established 1836.— Empowered by Acts of Parliament, OFFICES, 8 & 10, WALTER-STREET, LIVERPOOL; 20 & 21, POULTRY, LONDON. Trustees. Sin Thomas Bernard BiaCH, Bart., M.P. Adam Hodgsox, 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 Saunders, Esq. Francis Haywood, Esq. H. Stolterfoht, Esq. Robert Hipgin.Esq. John Swainson, Esq. George Holt, Esq. JamesAspinail Tobin, Esq. Swinton" Bodlt, 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. .Tunics Hartley, Esq. Swinton Bonlt, Esq. RossDe Mangles, Esq.,M.P. Benjamin Henderson, Esq., Resident Secretary. Auditors. —T. B. Blackburne, Esq., and D. James, Esq. Bankers. —Bank of Liverpool, Union Bank of London. CAPITAL AND RESOURCES. The Amount of Capital subscribed exceeds 1,500,000?. Capital paid up and in course of payment .^191,422 10 0 Reserved Surplus Fund . 131,452 10 0 Investment Fluctuation do. 40,000 0 0 Fire Insurance Guarantee do. 29,568 18 II Life do. Accumulation do. 67,581 19 3 268,603 8 jf460,025 IS 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 thevalue 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 public, 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 Firm may be insured in one sum, if subject to average, at 3s. Qd. 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 are now prepared to effect Policies commencing on the 14th inst. BOOKS. rnHE undersigned is a Purchaser of Books J- by the best English and Foreign authors. P. Campbell. Canterbury Exchange, Lyttelton, Oct. 9th.