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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 728, 9 August 1878, Page 1

PUBLIC COMPANIES COLONIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OK NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital ... ... £2,000,000. HEAD OFFICE—WELLINGTON. Directors : The Hon. C. J. Pharazyn, Chairman. The Hon. G. Randall Johnson, ViceChairman. The Hon. Dr. M. S. Grace. A. De B. Brandon, Esq. Walter J. Nathan, Esq. E. W. Mills, Esq. Jacob Joseph, Esq. General Manager: G. S. Gramam, Esq. THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE. This Company being compelled by its Articles of Association to reserve 100,000 Shares (half the capital) to be allotted from time to time to actual issurers 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 of security against loss from fire, combined with participation in the profits of one of the safest and most lucrative kinds of investment m the world. An insurer with this Company, being a shareholder, in effect reduces the rate charged ok his ows 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 insured the Company the right of taking up at par one of the unallotted shares for every £1 of premium paid by them, whether for Fire or Marine risks. The undersigned having been appointed Agent for the County of Waitaki, is prepared to accept Fire or Marine Risks at at Current Rates. JOSEPH BOOTH. Offices : Tyne-street, Oamaru. 930 TORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON AND EDINBURGH. Established ISO 9. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Specia Acts of Parliament. Subscribed Capital - - £2,000,000 sterling Fire Reserve Funds (1576) - £1,052,768. 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, 520 Agents for Oamaru.

UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital - £2,000,000 Sterling. 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 TEW ZEALAND INSURANCE .1i COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. £1,000,000 Fikb Department.—lnsurances granted at Lowest Current Rates on Buildings, Mills. Breweries, Stocks, Furniture, Farm Pro. duce. Stacks, &c, &c. Marine Department.— 1. Hulls insured on the voyage or time. 2. Merchandise, Goods, Freight, &B. The above Company being the first Inu ranee Company established in New Zealand, has prior claims to the patronage of •>e«r Zealand Colonists ; and being A LOCAL INSTITUTION, the whole of the funds are nvested in the Colony. Agent for Oamaru OKOROF. SUMPTKR. BUSINESS NOTICES. PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. 7"E, the undersigned, have this day '• ENTERED INTO PARTNERSHIP as Land and General Commission Agents, and will carry on business under the style of AITKEN AND SPAIN, On the- premises in Tyne-street, in which Mr. Aitken has heretofore conducted his less. Dated this 15th day of June, 187 S. WILLIAM AITKEN o-24 WILLIAM SPAIN.

"V,TES.>RS. COWIE 4 BUCKINGHAM, COMMISSION AGENTS, ACCOUNTANTS, AND COLLECTORS. Office : Tyne-xtreet, opposite Criterion Hotel, Oamaru. Registry for Female Servants and Farm Laborers. 737