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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 723, 3 August 1878, Page 1

PUBLIC COMPANIES The colonial insurance comPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital - Two Millions. This Company offers to Insurers the following combined advantages : Absolute Security. Participation in the profits upon an equal basis alike for small and large insurers. Prompt and liberal settlement of claims. THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE. The Company, having reserved 100,000 Shares (half the capital) to be allotted from time to time to actpai. insurers only in proportion to the amount of insurance premiums paid, offers to the public generally, and particularly to small insurers, the twofold advantage, which no other company in New Zealand possesses, that of. absolute security against loss, combined with participation in the profits of one of the safest and most lucrative kinds of investment. An insurer with this Compony, exercising his optional privilege and becoming a shareholder, in effect reduces the rate charged on his own property in proportion to the amount of premimum he pays and the influence he exerts to induce others to insure with the Company. NOTICE TO INSURERS. At the expiration of the first financial period of the Company, the Directors will offer to persons who may have previously insured the right of taking up at par (viz., on payment of the called-up capital only, which will not exceed ten shillings per share) one of the reserved shares for every £1 of Insurance Premium paid by them, whether from Fire or Marine risks. The Company will be prepared to undertake Fire and Marine Risks at THE LOWEST CURRENT RATES, On and after Monday, the 24th June, at the offices of the agent. J. BOOTH, Tyne-atreet, Next door but one to Bank of New Zealand. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMP \NY, LONDON AND EDINBURGH. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Specia Acts of Parliament. Subscribed Capital - - £2,000,000 sterling Fire Reserve Funds (1876) - £1,082,768. The undersigned have been appointed the Company's agents, and are authorised to insure against Fire at Lowest Current Rates. Losses settled with promptitude and liberality on the spot. LEES AND MOORE, S2O Agents for Oamaru. UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital - £2,000,000 Sterling. THIS Company is now prepared to tak FIRE AND MARINE RISKS at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. Full particulars obtainable on application to the undersigned. FRANK DUNLOP, Agent for Oamaru. Harbour-street, September 10, 1577. 695 NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital £1,000,000 Fii:k Dkpartmknt.—insurances granted at lowest Current Hates on Buildings, Mills. Breweries, Stocks, Furniture, Farm Pro. duce, Stacks, &c., &c. Marine Dkpartmunt.—l. Hulls insured

on the voyage or tiine. 2. Merchandise, Goods, Freight, dw. The above Company being the first Inurance Company established in New Zealand, has prior claims to the patronage of jsow Zealand Colonists ; and being A LOCAL INSTITUTION, the whole of the funds are nvested in the Colony. Ac est FOB OAM/ RU nitlOßftF. gUMT'TRR. BUSINESS NOTICES. PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. WE, the undersigned, have this day ENTi.KED IX'n) PARTNERSHIP as Laud and G> Coinmiasion Agents, "and will carry on business under the style of AITKEN AND SPAIN, On the premises in Tyno-street, in which Mr. Aitken has heretofore conducted his business. Dated this 15th day of June, J 878. WILLIAM AITKEN 924. WILLIAM SPAIN. CU\YIE & BUCKINGHAM, "** COMMISSION AGENTS, ACCOUNTANTS, AND COLLECTORS. Office : Tyne-street, opposite Criterion Hotel, Oainuru. Registry for Female Servants and Farm Laborers. 737