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Timaru Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 1235, 4 September 1878, Page 1

Insurance and Public Companies. XTICIORIA INSURANCE COMP ANY Fire and Marine Risks taken at lowest Bates. HENRY CAIN, Agent for Timaru. x iverpool, london, and globe Lj insurance company. Funds of the Company ... £4,861,837. Fire Reserve £1,000,000. Claims Paid £12,222,175. Every Description of Fire Risks accepted at Current RatesAgricultural Insurances accepted on Grain, Stacks, Barns, Threshing Machines, and Farming Implements. W. RUTHERFURD, Timaru. FRANK SLEE, W..iroate. «4a O. J. RAYNER, Temuka. OTANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY, k5 FIRE AND MARINE. Capital One Million Sterling. Head Office — Princes-street, Dunedin. Losses by fire insured against on Stores, Warehouses, Dwelling-houses, Stacks, &c, at current rates. The Company will also take risks on Wool and all kinds of Merchandise, on land or at sea, and either on valued or odbd policies, on the moßt favorable terms. Particular attention is drawn to the fact, that by provision m the Articles of Association insurers will participate m the profits of the Company. ? Agents for Timaru — 4-2 TATE & HALL. THE SCOTTISH & NEW ZEALAND INVESTMENT COY. (LIMITED). CAPITAL— £SOO,OOO. Head Office: Esk-stbebt, Intebcabgill. This Company is prepared to make Advances to Farmerß and others on Approved Securities at current rutes of interest. Special attention is directed to the system of Repayment of Principal nnd Interest by yearly or half-yearly instulments for a fixed time, from Two to Fourteon Years. Apply to W. MOODY, George-street, Timoru, 24my Agent for Canr-<" iV> "< l v. THE NATIONAL MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED). Capital, £1,000,000, m 100,000 shares of £10 each. Tbustees: Chables Magniac, Esq., 3, Lombard-street, London ; Archibald Ore Ewing, Esq., M.P.of Ballikinrain, N.B. Dirbotobs : Hbnet R. Gbenfell, Esq., Chairman, 27, Upper Thameß-street. Head Office : 37, Lombard-street. London. Head Office m New Zealand : Dunedin. The Company advances on wool and all other produce consigned for sale iv the Colonies or London, transacts every kind of mercantile business, and lends money on reaeonable terms on freehold and other approved securities. JAME3 GRANGER, Manager for Timaru TVTATIONAL FIRE AND MARINE i>l INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital ... One Million Stbeling. Paid up, £50,000. Resebte, £70,000. FIRE INSURANCE. Buildings of every description, also Household 'Furniture and Effects, Goods and Merchandise, insured againßt loss by fire, at Lowest Cubbbnt Rates. MARINE INSDRANCE. Insurances on Hulls of Vessels, Freights or Advances, and Goods and Merchandise of every description, to or from any ports m the World, accepted on the moßt favorable terms. LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID. Canterbury Bbanch : Geo. Mackay, Agent, Lyttelton. W. Zieskr f National Mortgage and [ Agents, Timaru. Agency Company J ALEXANDER CAR RICK, Manager, Bau Hereford-street, Chrietchurch. A USTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT j&. SOCIETY. Established m the year 1849. FOR LIFE ASSURANCE ON THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH: Head Office, Wellington. Invested Funds ... ... £2,300,000 Annual Income ... ... 650,000 Amount Assured 12,000,000 Claims Paid 850.0C0 Policies m force 31,000 LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM. Sixth Division of Pbofitb. The whole of the profits are divided amongst the assured, and bonuses to the amount of £910,000 have already been allotted. The last division of profits took place m 1874, and the cash surplus then divided amounted to £235,000, giving additions to policies averaging £3 per cent, per annum on tbe sum assured. The bonuses paid on policies becoming claims have varied from £15 per cent, on the sum assured for a policy of five years' standing to £150 per cent for one of twenty-five years' duration. Bonuses become vested additions to policies when they have been full five years m orce. The profits realised during the past five years will be ascertained and divided as at 31et December next, and all policies issued on or before that date will be entitled to participate m the profits of quinquennium. Prospectuses, foms of proposal, and all information may be obtained from the Branch Office, Wellington, or from any of the Society's agents. EDWARD W.'LOWE, Resident Secretary. Agent for Timaruj E. H. Tatb. 24my THE COLONIAL INBURANOE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. CAPITAL: TWO MILLIONS STERLING, Offers the following combined ad vantages: — Absolute Security. Participation m the profits upon an equal basis alike for, large and small insurers. Prompt and liberal settlement of claims, Lowest current rates. Insurances of every description effeoted. Half of the capital ('«•» 100,000 shares of £10 each ; Ten shillings payable thereon) has been reserved for insurers, and they will have the privilege of taking, if they wish, ONE of THB RBSBIiTBD SHABBB AT FIBST COST FOB KVBBT £1 OF IHBUBANOE PbEXIUMB PAID. For full particulars apply to JOHN JACKSON, lan Agent, Timaru