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North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2156, 1 April 1879, Page 1

Business Notices.

SOUTH BRITISH FIRE ft MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Subscribed Capital, £1,000,000; Invested Funds, £180,000. Bankers— Colonial Bank of New Zealand. ITead Office— Auckland. Prompt and Liberal in Settlement, Popular, and Progressive. Premiums (first year) 1872-3, £34.032. Premiums (sixth year) 1877-8, £134,961. Losses promptly paid at any Agency, at option of insured. Marine— Vessels. Freight, Cargo, etc., insured to and from United Kingdom, America, China, Mauritius, Australia, Fiji, and South Sea Islands. Firk— Buildings and their contents, Ships in Dock, Insured against Loss by Fire. Branches and Agencies and Managers : Christchurch— J. D. Macpherson, Ksq., Hereford street ; Dunedin— A. Maxwell, Ksq., Liverpool street ; Greymouth— Messrs Nancarrow and Co., Went* street ; Hoki. fcka— Messrs F. A. Learmonth and Co., Revel street ; Inveroar^ill — Messrs Cargills, Cibbs, and Co., Esk street ; London — Messrs Scales and Rogers, 9, Fenchurch street ; Napier— Edward Lyndon, Esq., Browning street ; Nelson— Messrs Sclanders and Co., Hardy street; Taranaki— L. H. Cholwill, Ksq., Devon street; Wanganui— Morton Jones, Esq., Victoria Avenue ; Wellington — Alfred Boardinan, Esq., Grey street ; and Pub-Afrcncics throughout Now Zealand and Australian Colonies. Oamaru Branch— W. J. Smith, Esq., TIIAMKH STREET. General Manager — A. Boardman, Esq. ma 29

TTNION INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND~"mARINE.

CAPITAL— TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

This Company is now prepared to take FIRE AND MARINE RISKS

Of Every Description, AT LOWEST CURRENT RATES.

Full particulars obtainable on application to , the undersigned. FRANK DUNLOP, Agent for Oamaru. Harbor-street, September 10th, 1877.

VTEW ZEALAND INSURANCE ll COMPANY.

FIRE AND MARINE.

CAPITAL .... £250,000 Firk Department. — Insurances granted at Lowest Current Rates on Buildings, Mills, Breweries, Stocks, Furniture, Farm Produce, Stacks, &c, &c. ' Marine Department.— -1. Hulis insured for the voyage or time. 2. Merchandise, Goods, Freight, &c.

The above Company being the FIRST Insurance Company established in New Zealand, has prior claims on the patronge of New Zealand Colonists ; and being a LOCAL INSTITUTION, the whole of the Funds are invested in the Colony.

AOENT TOR OAMAKU :

GEORGE SUMPTER.

/COLONIAL INSURANCE COMPANY VJ OF NEW ZEALAND.

FIRE AND MARINE.

Capital £2,000 000. HEAD OFFICE- WELLINGTON. Directors : The Hon. C. J. Pharazyn, Chairman. The Hon. G. Randall Johnson, VioeChairman. The Hon. Dr. M. S. Grace. A. De B. Brandon, Esq. J. S. M. Thompson, Esq; E. W. Mill*. Esq. Jacob Joseph, Esq. General Manager : G. S. Graham, Esq. T THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE. This Company being compelled by its Articles of Association to reserve 100,000 Shares (half the capital) to b* allotted from time to time to actual insurers ONLY in proportion to the amount of premiums paid, offers to the public generally, and particularly to men of small means, the twofold advantage, which no Fire Insurance Company in New Zealand has hitherto offered, that cf security afgainat loss from fire, combined with participation in the profits of one of the safest and most lucrative kinds of investment in the world. An insurer with this Company, being a shareholder, in effect reduces the hate charged on his own MtorBBTT in proportion to the amount of premium he pays and the influence he exerts to induce others to insure with the Company. Threshing Machines, Stacks, snd Farmers' Produce, Insured at lowest current Rates. Agents already appointed for this district :

D. SHAW 4 CO., Papakaio ; J. HENDERSON, Kakanui ; And JOSEPH BOOTH, Offices : Tyne street, Oamaru ; From whom every information can be obtained for Fire and Marine Insurances, fell

FIREWOOD, POSTS AND RAILS, &c.

fTJHE undersigned is prepared to supply -*• FIREWOOD, and all kinds of Fencing Material, at the

LOWEST CURRENT RATES. GRAIN, WOOL, and other Produce can bo stored in the Commodious Brick Store adjoining the Railway (from which a siding runs) on the most reasonable terms. For further particulars, apply to F. M. RICKMAN,

Business Directory.

AH. MAUDE, Auctioneer, Stock, • Station, and General Commission Agent, Harbor Street.

AJ. S. HEADLAND, General Store- • keeper, Thames-street.

AY. T. GRONVALL, M.R.C.V.S., . VETERINARY SURGEON. Horse and Cattle Medicines* of every description always on hand. Attendance night and day. Residence between Hay and Barrs and Meek's Mills, Severn- street.

HJ. EDWARDS, Chemist and Drug- • gist, next Mr Martin, Photographer, Thames-street.

HENRY KITE, Practical Coachbailder, Thames-street, Oamaru. Carriages of all descriptions made to order. Carriages bought, sola, or taken in exchange.

\\7M. AIT KEN, Accountant, Collector, V V and General Commisian Agent, Tyne* street.