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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 746, 31 August 1878, Page 1

PUBLIC COMPANIES /COLONIAL INSURANCE COMPANY j OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE A2tD MARINE. Capital £2,000,000. HEAD OFFICE—WELLINGTON. Directors : The Hon. C. J. Pharazyn, Chairman. Tke Hon. G. Randall Johnson, TiceChainnan. ; The Hon. Dr. M. S. Grass. A. De B. Brandon, Esq. ! Walter J. Nathan, Eas,. | E. W. Mills, Esq. Jacob Jotaph, Kbq. General Manager: G. S. Graham, Isq. THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE. This Company beiuj; e.)mpelled by its Articles of Association to reserve 100,000 Shares (half the c.ipital) to be allotted from time to time to actuai- 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 of security against loss from fire, combined with participation in the profits of one of the safest and moßt lucrative kinds of investment in the world. An insurer with this Company, being a shareholder, in effect reduce* the rats j 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 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 BUSINESS NOTICES. 'NAB AND FR AS E. R, Engineers, Millwrights, Blacksmiths, Boiler Makers and Irok Founders, Agricultural Implement Makers, SEVERN-STREET, OAMARU. 633 »E I D AND GRAY, ~~ AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT MAN UFACTURERS, Millwrights, Iron Founders, Waggon Builders, Horse Shoera, General BlackSmiths, and Importers of Every Description of Agricultural Implement* and Machinery, Dunkdin, Oamaru, and Timaru. Manufacturers of the Celebrated REAPING MACHINES (Universally acknowledged to be the best made), with Patent Double Steel-lined Fingers, &<*. Alw> on hand, a limited number of new PATENT- SELF-BINDERS FARM DRAYS Manufactured on the Premises by tne aid si Improved Machinery, from the most durable materials. PORTABLE ENGINES, Either with Horizontal or Upwright Boilers, made on the Premises! These laboursaving Engines are made at reasonable prices, | and will be found most useful to farmers. All kinds of Farming Implements Repaired by Experienced Workmen. i FENCING WIRE AND STANDARDS, i We are now Landing No. 6, 7, and 8 Wire •f th« Best Brands, and a large consignment of Standard Iron, direct from the manufacturers, at Greatly Reduced Prices. REID AND GRAY, Otago Implement and Machine Works, Dunedin, Oamaku, and Tikaru. BOOTS. BOOTS. BOOTS. , * ~* ~ ~ GORDON bega to inform his numerous Upcountry, as wel as Town, Patrons, that he is now Importing LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S BOOTS AND SHOES In every Style and the Best Quality. Boots and Shoes made to order. Best material and perfect fit guaranteed. Note the Address— WILLIAM GORDON, Tees-street, Opposite Richardson's Royal Hotel. 229 MONUMENTAL WORK. rpiHE undersigned having betn appointed X agents in Oamaru for some of the largest Monumental Firms, are now in a position to undertake the execution, of »U descriptions of the above. Orders are respectfully Bolicited for the following, viz.:— Tombstones in Granite „ „ Marble „ „ Oamaru Stone Cast lion Railings (choice patterns Kerbing, in Bluestone and Oamaru Stone Experienced Workmen sent to any distance required. A Tery large and choice assortment of the Newest Designs open for inspection, Gilded lettering done. Inspection invited. ADAM AND KING, N«*4 Presbyterian Church, Ca^Mi sadßMfelTStNS*. W»