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Evening Star, Issue 3151, 26 March 1873, Page 3

PUBLIC COMPANIES. T HE SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital, L 500,000, in 25,000 Shares of L2O each, with unlimited liability of shareholders. Directors. Chairman —Albert Beetham, Esq. Hon, Hen. Chamberlain, M.L.A. Wm. Crush Daldy, Esq., J.P. Stannus Jones, Esq. William Earl, Esq. William Morrin, Esq. Joseph Howard, Esq. General Manager ; A. Boardman. Bankers: Union Bank of Australia. Head Office. 29 Queen street, Auckland. Trustees and Directors, Otago Branch W. H. Reynolds, Esq., M.H.R. John Davie, Esq. (M‘Landless & Co.) This Company has been established as a purely New Zealand institution, with all its funds retained and invested in the Colony. It has a very large and influential body of shareholders distributed throughout the entire Colony, who are themselves insurers to a very considerable amount, and consequently can influence a large business, thus adding to the security of the insured and the stability of the Company, the chief features of which are a liberal management, prompt payments, rates moderate, and personal responsibility of a large body of shareholders. Fire and Marine Risks are now being taken at current rates W. and G. TURNBULL and CO., Agents Otago Branch. N.B.—Local Agents wanted in Districts where not yet appointed. SCOTTISH COMMERCIAL INSURANOE CO. FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Claims settled in Dunedin, CAPITAL, £1,000,000. WILLIAM BROWN & CO., Agents, High Street. INSURANCE COMPANY^ FIRE AND MARINE. (Established 1849 ) CAPITAL £200,000. Head Office : Melbourne. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH. Directors : J. T. Wright, Esq, ( J. F. Watson, Esq. J. M. Ritchie, Esq. Insurances of every description effected at Lowest Current Rates, and Claims promptly met. Losses can be made payable in any part of New Zealand or Australian Colonies. Office ; MANSE STREET. A.HILL JACK, Resident Secretary. PUBLIC NOTICES. OTAGO BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. THE Committee of the above Institution desire to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of LI 1 4d from the Committee of Messrs Peebles and Dunn, in aid of the charity. This amount was derived from the lectures delivered by the above-named gentlemen, at the Queen’s Theatre, on Sunday evening, the 23rd inst., as follows, viz. : Receipts. Dress Circle £ll 3 0 Stalls 4 18 0 Pit 22 10 Gross Total ... £lB 3 10 Expenses. Dally Times Evening Star Rent of Theatre £0 14 0 0 10 6 5 0 0 £6 4 6 By order. JOHN S. HICKSON, Secretary. Dunedin, March 25, 1873. HOGBEN’S PATENT. To Aerated Water and Cordial Manufac turers, Engineers, Brass Workers, and Others. WHEREAS by deed dated 6th October, 1871, duly registered pursuant to the “Patents Act, 1870,” Edward Hogben granted unto ns, the undersigned, a sole, exclusive, and irrevocable license to use within the Province of Otago certain inventions intituled “ An Improved Stopper for Bottles for containing Aerated or Gaseous Liquids*” and “ Improvements in Apparatus for supplying the Syrup in the mauufovtnre of Aerated Beverages and Qfyer liquids, also applicable to other purposes,” during the residue of the for which the said Patents are And whereas we have reason to suppose that certain persons in the said Province are infringing the said Patents, we therefore offer a REWARD OF FIFTY POUNDS to any person or persons giving us such information as will lead tq a conviction against such offenders, THOMSON. & CO., Sole Manufacturers of the PATENT' STOPPERED AERATED WAFERS, Stafford street, Dqnedia, PAINTERS W&RHANOERS. &o. Andrew lees, Painter, Glazier, and Paperhanger, Importer of paperhangings, window glass, plain and ornamental, ships’ signal apd deck lights, glass shades, cucumber and propagating glasses .white lead, oils and colors, gilt mouldings, &c., &c. George street, Dunedin. HS. FISH AND SON* having com- • pleted the their premises, beg to Qftll attention to their extensive stock o^ , LEAD, OILS, COLORS AND PAPERHANGINGS. They are Importers of Wylie and Lochheads celebrated make of Paperhangings, and being in receipt of monthly shipments direct from that firm, they are enabled to offer their patrons the largest and best selected assortment of apy house io Dunedin and at lower prices. Purchasers of 25 Pieces of pattern will be treated as wholesale and receive the advantage of liberal discount made to them, FRINGES STREET SOUTH, Wholesale and Retail. PAPERHANGINGS. Buyers should purchase at FISH’S. 25,000 pieces now on view. PAPERHANGINGS. The cheapest house in town is FISH AND SON’S, Princes-street South. F I E E. ATHSNyEUM SHOP. WILLIAM GILCHRIST, Painter, Paperhanger, and Glazier, will carry on business in the above shop until bis new premises are erected.