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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2071, 24 December 1869, Page 3

Amusements. JJOYAL PRINCESS THEATRE. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with the highly popular drama, in 2 acts, entitled LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET. Lady Audley ... Mrs H. Jackson To conclude with the Burlesque of BLACK-EYED SUSAN ; Or, THE LITTLE BILL THAT WAS TAKEN UP. YAUXHALL GARDENS BOXING DAY.—Odd Fellows’ Fete. Variety of Sports. Free Distribution of Prizes. Admission, One Shilling. Public Companies. JJOYAL INSURANCE 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 afford 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 L 88,495, This, with the Accumulated Funds in hand, makes the invested resources of the Company upwards of onf. million six hukdked thousand POUNDS, which amount is invested as follows: INVESTED FUNDS OF THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 30th June, 1869. Real Property owned by the Company £219,571 11 3 Mortgages on Freehold Property 33,500 0 0 £30,000 Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols 28,085 I 8 India Government 5 per Cent. Debentures 100,000 0 0 English Railway Debenture Bonds . . .... ... 59,090 17 7 First-class English Railway Preference and Guaranteed Stocks 335,476 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 Bonds of the Mersey Docks and Harbor Boards Bonds of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co Bonds of the Liverpool Corporation United States Government Stocks Canada Bonds and Canada Dominion Stocks Short Loans on first-class English Dividend-paying-Stocks, with margins from 20 to 50 per Cent, on market values Loans on Security of Life Policies 145,560 12 6 62,341 14 8 10,000 0 0 5,160 0 0 101,330 7 10 31,106 11 6 477,195 0 0 63,938 8 5 £1,672,356 16 11 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 different periods, in the hands of the Bankers and the Company’s Agents. At 31st December, 1868, these stood at £168,089 2 0 For the satisfaction of the Public, the whole of the securities belonging to the Company are annually submitted to the careful 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 ACCUMUL\TIONS OF THE LIFE DEPARTMENTS, i After payment of Losses, Annuities, and Expenses of every description, have been as as follows : Funds in Hand at the last Quinquennial Valuation, 3.lst December, 1864 ... Added to 31st Dec., 1865 ... „ n 1866... .. V. 1867... ” .. .. 1868 ... £621,434 15 6 103,146 7 3 124,165 7 5 128,583 5 10 144,945 12 2 Total of ,the Life Department on 31st December, ISOS, exclusive of Shareholders’ Capital £1,122,2-75 8 'ihe Directors also think it desirable to state that the business of the Royal ha.s never been amalgamated with that of any other Company, and that the Liability of its Shareholders is unlimited. The bonuses added to Life Policies in this Company, under their participation table, have averaged TWO PER CENT. PER ANNUM i m the amount insured, i Lenses for the Voyage between Europe i and. Colonies and vice versa, are now 1 grants % this Company free of charge to r the assured. j FIRE INSURANCES AT LOWEST CURRENT -RATES. Claims are settled promptly in the Colony, TV/thout re erence to England, l'or details of information on all points, see the Company’s Almanac, to be nad of the ag> H ENDERSON, LAW, & CO., Dunedin. HEA P PRINTING, “EVENjING STAR” OFFICE, Comer of S jtafford and Princes streets, Dunedin.