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Star (Christchurch), Issue 3212, 24 July 1878, Page 4

THE COLONIAL j JNSURANCE fPjOMPAXY OF NEW ZEALAND, Hire and JML ari ne. CAPITAL TWO MILLIONS STERLING. CHIEF OFFICES, WELLINGTON. BOARD OF DIRECTORS — Chairman : Tho Hon. C. J. Pharazyn, M.L.C., Chairman Local Board Australian Mutual Provident Society. Vice-Chairman : The Hon. Randall Johnson, M.L.C., Managing Director Northern Land and Loan Company. . Jacob Joseph, Esq., Merchant. A. do B. Brandon, Esq., M.H.R., Local Director Australian Mutual Provident Society. E. W. Mills, Merchant. The Hon. M. S. Grace, M.L.C., Local Director Australian Mutual Provident Society. Walter J. Nathan, Esq., Merchant. Solicitors : Messrs Brandon and Son, Wellington. General Manager : Geo. S. Graham. Esq. Bankers .- The Bank of New Zealand. This Company offer 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 Lowest Current Rates Insurance of Every Description effected. THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE. The Company, having reserved 100,000 Shares of £10 "each (half tlie capital), ten shillings payable thereon, to be allotted from time to time to actual 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 aud most lucrative kinds of investment. An insurer with this Company, exercising liis optional privilege and becoming a shareholder, in effect reduces the rate charged on nis own property in proportion to the amount of premium 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 ujj at- par (viz., on payment of the called-up capital only, which will nob exceed 10s per share) one op the reserved shares. por every £1 op inSURANCE PREMIUM PAID RY THEM whether for Fire or Marino risks. The Company is now prepared to undertake FIR_ and MARINE RISKS at the LOWEST CURRENT RATES at the Temporary Offices ' rented from Messrs Chry stall and Co., HEKEFORD STREET, Opposite the Custom House. FREDK. E. A. GRAHAM, 1189 Manager for CanterburyIMPEBIAIi BOOT DEPOT.: THE STOCK for the SEASON is now Well-assorted. Ey the arrival of the HIMALAYA, 13 TRUNKS Have been added to Goods already advertised. Also, To arrive by the DUKE OF ARGYLE, 24 TRUNKS, Making the Total for this Season 145 TRUNKS. Tho Shipments being larger than usual, the GOODS nave been MARKED LOW That the whole may be Cleared. BOOTS AND SHOES of all description MADE TO ORDER. W. HARRIS. Cashel streot. 184 Adjoining Dunstable House. ATKINSON'S ENERGETIC FOUNDRY, TUAM STREET, AND WORKING MAN'S COOKING RANGE and REGISTER GRATE, Washing Furnaces, Wringing and Mangling Machines MANUFACTORY. Awarded seven of the highest honorary certificates at the last Agricultural Show for the year 1877. T. A. wishes to return his sincere thanks to his numerous friends and the public of Canterbury for tho support they havf rendered him since ho commenced business in making Cooking Ranges ; and also wishes to inform them that he is able to make Ranges at much lower prices since he has commenced the Foundry business. Improved Radcliffe Cooking Range, 3 feet, with boiler, £4 15s. My Own Improved, £6 ; 16 different sizes o choose from. All kinds of Jobbing Work dono. 179 TR. PROCTER • WATCHMAKER, AND MANUFACTURING JEWELLER, High street, Christchurch (opposite City Hotel), and Revell street, Hokitika. T. R. PROCTER, during 30 years' experience in that branch of liis business devoted to Spectacles, having constantly proved the difficulty or procuring them in tho Colonies properly adjusted and of reliable material, h?<arranged for a regular supply of the best do scription, and having secured the services of a first-class practical Optician, froni the noted establishment of Dollard and Sons, London, can now guarantee to supply spectacles ir. any kind of frame, with Brazilhan Pepples, the Patent Tinted, or other Crystals, suited to any sight. Any class of Spectacle can be entirely manufactured on the premises. Those individuals who are near-sighteol, and those suffering from weak eyes, requiring Spectacles, by applying to T. R. Procti-b, at bis address, Higli street, Christchurch, can have their respective sights measured and ro- | | gistered to the utmost truthfulness by Dr Ackland's Patent Optometer, and can there* , upon bei uppiied with those exactly suited to j their wa <ts. ' T. R. Procter desires to announce that every description of Catoptrical and Optical Lenses, as also Opthalmoscopes and Laryngoscopes are made to order at his establishment. Non-residents in Cliristchurch can be supplied with Spectacles- by Post. 163