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Evening Star, Issue 3161, 7 April 1873, Page 3

Late Advertisements. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TENDERS are invited by the Colonial Government, for conveying Bridge Materials from the ships Euterpe and Lutterworth, at Port Chalmers, to the site of the proposed bridge at the Waitaki River. Conditions of contract may be bo seen at this office, where tenders will be received up till noon of Friday, the llth inst. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, W. N. BLAIR, District Engineer. Public Works Office, Dunedin, 7th April, 1873. WANTED, Four Tailors, immediately. Kirkpatrick, Glendining, and Co. BOARD AND RESIDENCE. PRIVATE Furnished Apartments, Hawthorne Cottage, two doors below Dr Cowie’s, High street. BOARD and Residence for Four Gentlemen. Mrs Gorman, Manor House. Rattray street. PUBLIC COMPANIES. THE OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED. ISSUE OF ADDITIONAL SHARES. Offices : 5 Adams Court, Old Broad Street, London. CAPITAL : £500,009 in 100,000 Shares of £5 each. First Issue, 50,000 Shares. The Court of Directors in London of the OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND INVESTMRNT COMPANY, Limited, having resolved to issue the remaining 10,000 Reserved Shares of the First Issue of 50,000 Shares in the above Company, have determined, with the view of giving it a more Colonial character, to offer the same in New Zealand. The Company has only been in existence about eight years, and the Dividends paid have been at the rate of Ten per cent, per annum, besides forming a Reserve Fund which already amounts to L 5.000, in the benefits from which fund the new Shares will participate. It is proposed to issue the additional Shares at a premium of Five Skillings per Share, and a Call of One Pound per Share will only be required to be paid up : no other call is contemplated. Applications for Shares will be received at the Offices of the Company, Temple Chambers, Princes street, Dunedin, until the 29th April, A. W., MORRIS, Manager, The south British fire and MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital ... £500,009. Applications for new issue of 12,500’sharcs in this Company will be received until noon of the 21st day of April inst, at the Head Office, Auckland, and at the Agencies of the Company, at Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, and Dunedin, ■where, and also at the various Sub-Agencies, forms of application and every information can be obtained. Shares are at present offered at thirty shillings each, being fifteen shillings premium. Payment, ten shillings per share deposit on application, ten shillings per share on allotment, and ten shillings per share within one month from date of allotment. Shares will be allotted in certain proportions among the various Provinces of New Zealand, By order of the Directors. A. BOARDMAN, Manager. April 1, 1873. THE SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital, 1500,000, in 25,000 Shares of L2O each, with unlimited liability of shareholders. Directs. Chairman—Albert Beetham, Esq. Hon. Hem Chamberlain, M.L.A. Wra. Crush Daldy, Esq., J.P, Stannus Jones, fi’sq. William Earl, Esq. William Morrin, Esq. Joseph Howard, Esq. General Manager ; A, Boardman, Bankers, t Union Bauk ci Australia. Head Office. 29 Queen street, Auckland. Trustees and Directors, Otago Branch: W. H. Reynolds, Esq., M.H.R. John Davie, E.q. (M‘Landress & Co.) This Company has been established as a purely Ntw Zealand institution, with all its funds retained and invested in the Colony. It has a very large and influential body of shareholder 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 C 0.,, A gwits Otago Branch. N.B,—Local Agents wanted In Districts where not yet appointed. SCOTTISH COMMERCIAL INSURO ANCE CO. FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Claims settled in Dunedin, CAPITAL. £1,900,000. WIIJJAM BROWN & CO., Agents, High Street. TTICTOR.IA INSURANCE COMPANY, FIRE AND MARINE. (Established 1849 ) CAPITAL £200,000. Head Office : Melbourne. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH. Directors : J. T. Wright, Es<j. | 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 m any part of New Zealand or Australian Colonies. Office : MANSE STREET. A. HILL JACK, Resident Secretary.