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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 154, 17 December 1853, Page 12

LIVERPOOL AND LONDON, $'m anfc Hifc Insurance Company. Established in 1836. . Empowered by Act of Parliament. THE AMOUNT OF CAPITAL SunscnißED 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 branches. Insurance of Leases for Years, by which the value of Property so held is made equal to freehold. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Parties Insuring in the above Department are allowed to reside in any part of New Zealand or Australia (excepting the " Diggings.") FIRE DEPARTMENT. Since its establishment in 1536, 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. . . ) 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. J gents for New Zealand : ■■"' . COOKSON, BOWLER, AND Co., Lyttelton. WILLIAM BOWLER, SON, AND CO., Weliikgton. 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 the Cheviot Hills. T^ARMER'S FAVOURITE, a pure -1- Clydesdale horse, imported from V.D.L., in 1851, is a bright bay/black points, 16 hands high, rising five years old, and for shape, bone, beauty and action, he is considered the pride of the island. Farmers Favourite gained the prize at Launceston as the best yearling colt. Terms £4. 4s. To Stand this Season, At Ham Farm, ■^HE thorough-bred Horse, Shamkocx, 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, £5 55., and ss. the Groom. CANTERBURY. A PURE Clydesdale Horse, imported -0" by J. C. Watts Russell, in 1850. He is f- dark Brown, stands sixteen hands and half an •nch, with good bone and excellent temper. Rising 7 yrs. old. His she," Young Scotsman," gained several prizes in the County Ayr. His grandsire, the " Scotsman," the property of Win. Kirkwood,of Griinesal, 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, « Sampsou." 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 he paid to himself at the time. One of the Horses will be at the Stables of the Royal Hotel every Monday, Wednesday, and Iriday, between the hours of two and thrte o clock, for the purpose of trying mares.