ISustness Notices, THE ijifr*r|j.ool mxb |? a jt fr a rc FIRE AND LIFE ■INSURANCE COMPANY. INSTITUTED 1836. ! . CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED £2,000,000. ! Reserved Fund -s£2 15,596 11s. lid. LIABILITY of the COMPANY UNLIMITED. Amount of Claims paid for losses by Fire, 1859, £201,885 7s. lid. Amount of Premiums received ©n Fire P©licies 1859, 14s. 9d. r pHIS COMPANY presents unusual facilities j J_ for Life Assurance. Policies issued without the delay attendant upon referring to London or Sydney. Bonus additions calculate r a most liberal scale, added to the Amount Insured after Five Annual payments. Thus a Policy for on the life of a person aged 40 years, after five payments, represents £1040 14s. 2d., and at the end of 40 years, the policy is increased to £2000. Fire Insurance in all its branches, Premiums varying according to risk. Insurance may be effected against Fire on standing crops, hay in stacks, grain of all kinds in ricks or barns, wool in sheds, and all other I'arm and Station produce. Losses arising from Fire or on Death, paid by the Undersigned immediately upon proof of the same. On all subjects counectftd with the Business of the Company, the fullest information sal be had on application to Wm. BOWLER, SON, fe C O-, Agents. Lambton Quay ; Wellington, Feb. lsl, 1801. the: mercantile FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Temporary Offices — 31, Threa d le Street, E.G. Capital—Two Millions Sterling. DIRECTORS, Chairman — JOHN WHITE CATEE, Eb^. (Messrs. J. W. Cater, Son, & Co.) Defuty-Chaikmas — CHARLES MOSRISONjEsq. (Messrs. Morrison, Dillon, and Co.) Ansclmode Aroyave, Esq. (Messrs. A. D. Arroyave and Co. Alexander Henry Campbell, Esq. (Messrs. Finlay, Campbell, and Co.) Philip Charles Cavan, Esq. (Messrs. Cavau, Lubbock, and Co.) Edward Cohen, Esq. (Messrs. Drake, Kleinwort, and Cohen) James Dv Buisson, Esq. (Messrs. Henckell, Dv BuissoD, and Co.) Pascoe dv Pre Grenfell, Esq. (Messrs. Pascoe, - Grenfell, and Sons.) Adolphus Klockmann, Esq. (Messrs. Klockmann and Fesser.) Junius Spencer Morgan, Esq. (Messrs. George Peabody and Co.) John Mollett, Esq., Austinfriars*passage. George Garden Ninol, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China. Peter P. Ralh, Esq. (Messrs. Ralli Brothers.) John Henry William Schroder, Esq. (Messrs. J. H. Schroder and Co.) Robert Smith, Esq. (Messrs. Robert Smith and Co} Frederic 'Soames, Esq. (Messrs. Soames, Mullens, and Co.) George Young, Esq. (Messrs. Begbie, Yonng and Begbies.) Manager— GEOßGE HENRY WHYTING, Esq. Bankers— Messrs. GLYN, MILLS, AND CO., Lombard Street. SECURITY. CAPITAL— TWO MILLIONS STERLING, Fully subscribed for by a large and wealthy Proprietary. Upwards of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds. Paid up and Invested iv Government Securities. Looses promptly and liberally settled. All Risks rated upon their own merit. The following have been appointed agents in Australia, namely — Messrs. Lotze & Labnach, Sydney David Moore, Esq., Melbourne Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished on application to the undersigned who have been appointed Agents for the Company at Wellington, and who are authorised to accept lusu rauces in all parts of New Zealand. A, P. STUART & CO,, Wellington. May 19, 1862. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. 'f^HE FOURTH Instalment of £1 per share, jl payable on the Shares allotted in the Capital Stock of this Bank has been fixed by the Directors to be paid as follows. . At Auckland, on the 18th day of August next. New Plymouth, ditto Napier ditto Wellington, ditto Nelson, ditto Uhristchurch, ditto Lyttehon, ditto Dunedin ditto Picton, ditto Blenheim, ditto Invercargill, ditto Timaru, ditto Sydney, ditto la London, ditto '. By order of the Board ot Directors, A. KENNEDY, General Manager. Atcklftttd, Ist May, 1802.