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Colonist, Volume XIII, Issue 1279, 28 December 1869, Page 4

TRAFALGAR HOUSE, Next tie Bank of New Zealand. JUST OPENED, EX H B »A , FIRST SHIPMENT OF General Drapery A Tery CHOICE ASSOETMENT of the Most Fashionable 3tth23 in DRESS MATERIALS, consisting of MOHAIRS, (12 yards for 3s. 9d.) PLAIN POPLINETTS, BROCHE POPLINETTS, BROCHE GRENADINES, LUSTRES. BLACK, WHITE, & COLORED GLACES, COSTUMES (made up) in all materials, from 12s. 6d.; CHILDREN'S COSTUMES, equally cheap. PRINTED MUSLINS, FRENCH CAMBRICS, FANCY GINGHAMS, PRINTS. HORROCKSES' LONG CLOTHS, all numbers, SHIRTING CALICOES, from 4*d., GREY „ 1 yard wide, from SM. LINEN SHEETINGS, TWILLED COTTON SHEETINGS, WIGAN DITTO. COUNTERPANES, TOILET QUILTS. MARSELLA QUILTS, LINEN, UNION, and COTTON TICKING. TABLE LINEN, Large assortment. HUCKABACK, FORFAR, GLASS CLOTH, and all materials for domestic purposes. CAItPJBTS, &c BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY, from 2s. 10d. slightly damaged KIDDERMINSTER, and FELT CARPETS. FELT SQUARES, HEARTH RUGS, STAIR CARPETS, MATTINGS, FLOOR CLOTHS, &c, &c. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF Haberdashery & Lace Goods CHEMISETTS, COLLARETTS, (new styles) LACE FALLS, (new shapes) PARASOLS, in SILK and COTTON. Also, JUST RECEIVED, EX CLAUD HAMILTON, via MELBOURNE, A NEW ASSORTMENT OF

EOYAL INSUBANCE COMPANY. SECURITY Should be the First Consideration in Insurance Transactions. THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY have the pleasure of supplying the following information to the public, as evidence of the ample security they aflord to their assurers:— ■ THE CAPITAL of the Company, available for the purpose of meeting any unusual calamity happening to the Assured, is TWO MILLIONS STERLING. The amount actually paid up is £288,495- This, with the Accumulated makes the invested resources of the Company^upwards of ONE MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND FOUNDS which amount is invested as follows : — INVESTED FUNDS OF THE EOYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 30th June, 1869. Beal Property owned by the Company X n ' X Mortgages on Freehold Property .JjMJg " " £30,000 Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols ■■wJSXi- n n India Government 5 per Cent. Debentures ,?■ * English Eailway Debenture Bonds "^ " ' First-class English Railway Preference and Guaranteed Stocks «M5,47b 11 11 Loans to Local Authorities of various Towns in Great Britain, who have obtained the sanction of the Secretary of State to borrow the amounts... 145,560 12 b Bonds of the Mersey Docks and Harbor Eoard. 62,341 14 8 Bonds of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company 10,000 U U Bonds of the Liverpool Corporation MJ** J| « United States Government 5t0ck5.......... ?S ii ? Canada Bonds and Canada Dominion Stock •••••• 31,106 11 b Short Loans on first-class English Dividend-paying Stocks with margins, from 20 to 50 per Cent, on market values ••• ? j? ' Loans on Security of Life Policies.... 63,938 8 5 £1,672,356 16 11 . I The above is a complete list; of the Investments of the Company at the date specified, in addition to which the Funds are still further increased, by amounts constantly varying, at differenteperiods, in the hands of the Bankers and the Company?s Agents. At 3lßt Dec., 1868, these stood at.. £168,089 2 0 For the satisfaction of the Public, the whole of the aecurities belonging to the Company are annually submitted to the carefnl scrutiny of two independent Auditors, and the following is an Extract from their Report to the last Annual meeting :— "The whole of your Books have been Audited—every Document, every Account, every Voucher, your Bank Book, and every Security—all have been most carefully kept, and there is not one doubtful Security in the whole," , ; THE ACCUMULATIONS OF THE LIFE DEPAETMENT, I After payment of Losses, Annuities, and Expenses of every description, have been as follows :— I Funds in hand at the last Quinquennial Valuation, 31st December, 1864, £621,434 15 5 ;■ Added to 31st December, 1865 . . . ... .103,146 7 3 ) _.. „ „ 1866 .124,165 7 6 I 1867 . . . . . . .128,583 610 ) ;; ;; ;; is&s ... . . ■•*■-■■ > u^n-i Total Accumulation of the Life Department on 31st December, 1868, — i 1 ■ exclusive of Shareholders' Capital .. . • • • £1|122,275 8 1 , ! THE DIRECTORS ALSO THINK IT DESIBABLE TO STATE THAT TJHE BUSINESS OF THE EOTAL HAS NEVER BEEN AMALGAMATED 1 WITH THAT: OF ANY OTHER COMPANY, [ And th»t the LIABILITY of iU SbftMholden > UNLIMITED. % OOBNiMABIN, 17781 ifmkfwNtiwoA