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New Zealander, Volume XIX, Issue 1991, 8 October 1863, Page 1

BANK OF N hi VV SOUTH WALES, Incorporated by Act of the General Assembly. PAID UP CAPITAL £750,000 RESERVE FUND 250,000 I 1 ; i 5 THE Auckland Branch grants Drafts and Loiters of Credit on the Brandies and Agencies of the Bank in New Zealand, New South Wales. Queensland, Victoria. Tasmania. South Australia, Western Australia, Great Britain and Ireland, Hamburgh, New York, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, India, China, Singapore, Manilla, Batavia. Approved Drafts on any of the above Countries purchased or scut for collection. Local Bills discounted and Advances made on Bills of Lading ol goods shipped for exportation. Rates of Discount, Interest, and Exchange, and general terms of business may be ascertained on application at the Bank. JOHN WOODHOUSE, Manager. NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY FOR FIRE, .MARINE, AND GENERAL INSURANCE. HEAD OFFICES; FRASERS UFILDIXGS, AUCKLAND. Capital, £250,000, WITH UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF THE SHAREHOLDERS. Directors: Chairman—James William sox, Esu}. Defuty Chairman —S. Browning. John Henry Burnside, William C. Daldy, David Graham, J. S. Macfarlane, Hon. Titos. Russell, C. J. Stone, William C. Wilson. Auditors: George Fraser George Eliott Eliott. Marine Surveyor: William Crush Daldy. FI R E DEPART MEN T. THIS COMPANY undertakes the Assurance of Stores, Shops, and Buildings, in which trades are carried on, Dwellings, Farm Houses, &c., Merchandize, and Goods of every description, Hay Stacks, Ships, in Harbour, in Dock, and on Slip, at Rates of Premium as advantageous to the interests of the Assured as those offered by any other Office. MAR IN E DEPART MEN T. Ships Insured for the Voyage or Time. Merchandize and Goods insured with and without particular average. Claims for Loss or Average payable by the Company three months after the settlement of the same, and made payable in London, Sydney, cr Melbourne, if required. B} r effecting Insurance on Produce to the United Kingdom in this Company, the British Policy duty of 5 per cent, is saved. The Directors can confidently refer to the well-known character of the Company for liberality and promptitude in the discharge of claims, and would remind assurers that this being a Colonial Institution the whole of the profits are retained and invested in the Colony, instead of being transmitted to England. *** Tables of Rates, Printed Forms of Proposals, and all other information may ho obtained from ten to four daily, at the Office of the Company, or from any of the Directors. GEORGE P. PIERCE, Manager. THU EOYAL INSURANCE COMPANY FOR FIRE AND LIFE. CAPITA! £2,000,000 Sterling. FUNDS IN HAND ... £BOO,OOO “ HEAD OFFICES: ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS, LIVERPOOL, AND LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON. Manager and Actuary : PERCY M. DOVE. milE latest Parliamentary RehiVns show the following JL remarkable position of the Royal with respect to tdl other offices : V. • •• In 1860 its increase of Fire Insurance Dufy was more than DOUBLE THAT OF ANY OTHER .COMPANY. and more than THIRTY PER CENT, of the entire nerease I of alk the London Olneos combined. Its increase was also • more than THIRTT'PER CENT, of the entire increase of < the other twenty-eight Country Offices combined. In 1861, likewise, the Royal stands at the head of all offices; its increase being considerably more than FIFTY ! PER CENT, above that of the Company approaching i nearest to it, and actually more than ONE-SIXTH of the entire increase of the remaining forty-three offices. Life Department. LARGE LIE E BONUSE S, Declared 1855 and 1860. Two per Cent, per Annum on the Sum Assured, the GREATEST BONUS ever continuously declared by any Company. PROFITS DIVIDED EVERY FIVE YEARS To Policies then in existence two entire years. The undersigned has the honor to announce his appoint- j mont as Agent for this Province of the abovenamed , Insurance Company, and that the last and present mails have placed him in'possession of the necessary documents, to enable him to enter thoroughly into the business of Fire and Life Insurance in all branches. Every description of insurable interest covered at the most moderate premiums. Losses settled on the spot with the same liberality and promptitude which have ever-distinguished the company throughout the world. As a striking instance thereof, the Royal lost by the recent great fire in London £75,000, and within one week from the occurrence every claim furnished was paid. All information and forms given on application to THOMAS H. MABIN, Agent for the Province of Auckland. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON AND EDINBURGH. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL £2.000,000 Sterling. ACCUMULATED AND INVESTED FUNDS, £1,374,000. THE Company Insures against Fire nearly every description of property in all parts of the world, at the lowest rotes of Premium corresponding to each risk. Insurances for seven years charged for six only. Losses settled with promptitude and liberality. The undersigned have been appointed the Company’s Agents, and are empowered to issue Policies on the most favourable terras, and to settle any claims that may arise. GILFILLAN & CO, W. MILLER HAS REMOVED his Colonial Boot Manufactory to more commodious premises opposite the Q. C. E. Boots of every description made to order by first-class workmen. Peg Boots made and repairs neatly executed. fpig" Foot of Shortland-street, Auckland. Notice. NOTICE is hereby given that a Meeting of the creditors of William Pritchard, of Auckland, Builder, will be held at our office in Canada Buildings, on MONDAT next, the 12th instant, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Creditors are requested to attend. KEEJLEY & DAVY, Solicitors for the Petitioning Creditor