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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 142, 24 September 1853, Page 4

WOOL, TALLOW, &c 'T^HE Undersigned is a Cash Purchaser -*• of Wool, Tallow, Hides, Horns, Sheepskins, Oil, and Whalebone. James Swinboubne, Colonial Store. LIVERPOOL AND LONDON Jire anfcr Htfe Insurance CDompang. Established in 1836. Empowered by Act of Parliament. THE AMOUNT OF CAPITAL Subscribed exceeds £1,500,000. The Liability of the Proprietors is declared by the Company's Act of Parliament to be unlimited. BUSINESS. Insurance against Loss by Fire of Property of every description. Life Insurance in all its brandies. Insurance of Leases for Years, by which the value of Property so held is made equal to freehold. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Parties Insuring iv the above Department are allowed to reside in any part of New Zealand or Australia (excepting the Ci Diggings.") FIRE DEPARTMENT. Since its establishment in 1836, the Company has paid, for Losses by Fire, the sum of £241,000. 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. PREMIUMS. On detached Dwelling Houses] £1 per cent per and Property therein. . .J annum. On "Warehouses and Stores. . . 2 do. do. On Hotels and Lodging-houses . 3 do. do. No charge for Policy, however small the amount of Insurance. Agents for New Zealand ; COOKSON, BOWLER, AND Co., LYTTELTOX. "WILLIAM BOWLER, SON, AND CO., Wellington. Who are fully empowered to issue Policies and settle Claims, on satisfactory proof of Loss, and to appoint Agents in the other Settlements. To Stand this Season, At Ham Farm, PTIHE thorough-bred Horse, Shamrock, He is a bright bay, stands sixteen hands, strong boned,, very good tempered, and 7 yrs. old. His sire, Mr. Rouse's (of Guntawarry) English blood horse, '■ St. John. His dam "a thorough-bred Camerton mare. Shamrock won the prize at the Agricultural Society's show as the "best colonial blood stallion." Terms, £o 55., and ss. the GroomCANTERBURY. A PURE Clydesdale Horse, imported -£*- by J. C. Watts Russell, in 1850. He is a dark Brown, stands sixteen hands and half an inch, with good bone and excellent temper. Rising 7 yrs. old. His sire," Young Scotsman," gained several.prizes in the County Ayr. His grandsire, the " Scotsman," the property of Win. Kirkwood, ofGrimesal, Dunlope, gained the two first prizes in the Highland Agricultural Show. Terms, £4 45., and ss. the Groom. SPEED THE PLOUGH. A STRONG-boned, powerful Bay horse, -£*- stands sixteen two. Rising five years old- His sire, " Young Prince,"a pure Suffolk, imported by J. W. Gleadow, Esq., to Van Diemen's Land. His dam, a Government mare by the celebrated imported horse, " Sampson." Terms, £4 45., and ss. the Groom. N.B. No mares taken after the Ist January, when the money will be collected. The Grooms fee to be paid to himself at the time. A Challenge for 100 Sovereigns. CJEVERAL Persons fancying the extra*J ordinary speed of their hoises, the horse Tamerlane " is now open to Race any horse, or mare, now in the Canterbury Settlement, two mile heats, for the above sum, at Hagley Park, on the next Anniversary Day, Dec. 16th. Weights, list. 7 lb. N.B. " Tamerlane's" Cash is ready.