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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2082, 7 January 1870, Page 4

Public Companies. INSURANCE COMPANY. SECURITY Should he 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 55,495. This, with the Accumulated Funds in hand, makes the invested resources of the Company upwards of one million six hundukd thousand pounds, which amount is invested as follows: — INVESTED FUNDS OF THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 30th June, ISG9, Real Property owned by the Company ... ... ••• £219,5/1 11 3 Mortgages on Freehold Property ... ... 33,500 0 0 £30,000 Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols ... ... 28,085 I 3 India Go verument 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 145,560 12 6 Bonds of the Mersey Docks and Harbor Boards ... 62,341 14 8 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 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 aie still further increased by amounts constantly varying at different periods, in the hands of the Bankers and die Company’s Agents. At 31st December, 1868, tlnse stood at £168,089 2 0 For the satisfacton of the Public, the whole of the securities belonging to the Company are annually sihmitted to the careful scrutiny of turn independent Auditors, and the following is an ixtract 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 departments, After payment of Losses, Annuities, and Expenses of every description, have been as as follows: Funds in Hand at the last Quinquennial Valuation, 31st December, 1864 .. £621,434 15 6 Added to 31st Dec., 1865 ... 103,146 7 3 „ „ „ 1866 ... 124,165 7 5 „ „ „ 1867 ... 128,583 510 „ ~ „ 1868... 144 945 12 2 Total Accumulation of the Life Department on 31st December, 1868, exclusive of Shareholders’ Capital ... .. ...£1,122,275 8 1 The Directors also think it desirable to state that the business of the Royal has 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 on the amount insured. Licenses for the Voyage between Europe and tliese Colonics and vied arc now granted by this Company free of charge to the assured. j FIRE INSURANCES AT LOWEST CUR gPvENT HATES. I Claims are settled promptly in the Colony, without reference to England. For details of information on all points, see the Company’s Almanac, to he had of the agents, HENDERSON, LAW, & CO., Dunedin. Hairdressers. By Appointment to H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, and His Excellency the Governor and Volunteers. FR E I S S E L , . Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s HAIRDRESSER AND PERFUMER, Rattray street, Dunedin. Warm, Cold, aud Shower Baths (reduced to One Shilling) always ready. Ladies’ Hair Dressed any Style or Fashion A Private Room for Ladies. Butchers. IA DWA R D MENL OV E, U ' Wholesale aud Retail Butcher, George, Maclaggan, and Great King Streets, Dunedin, Families waited upon for orders in all parts of the City and Suburbs. UiiMPSON & ASHER, Wholesale and jO Retail Butchers, Octagon and Walker •street. Shipping supplied. Public Abattoirs. N.B. Pork skins for sale in large oi small quantities.