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Evening Star, Issue 3382, 22 December 1873, Page 1

PUBLIC COMPANIES. Scottish commercial insurance co. FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. . Claims settled in Dunedin. CAPITAL, £1,000,000. WILLIAM BROWN & CO., Agents, Princes street (opposite National Bank). NOTICE. UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED). THE Share List of the Company will Close on Tuesday, 6th January. JAMES MILLS, Interim Secretary. STANDARD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. The Share List will close throughout the Colony on Wednesday, 24th December instant. CHAS. REID, Interim Secretary. PROTECTION FROM FIRE. TO STOREKEEPERS, HOUSEHOLDERS, INVESTEES, And Others having Property at risk. THE National Insurance Co. deserves the support of the public of Otago, being essentially A LOCAL OFFICE, With a resident proprietary and administration in the Province. The ENTIRE CAPITAL AND PROFITS for the protection of the insured and guarantee of claims being invested here retains in New Zealand that which would otherwise go out of it. A. HILL JACK, General Manager, COMMERCIAL BUILDING AND MUTUAL INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Trustees : George Turnbull, Esq. J. M. Ritchie, Esq., Charles Stewart, Esq. Ddiectoks : Messrs Thomas Callendar, Andrew Lees, George W. Eliott, H. Neill, J. B. Thomson, D. M‘Donald, W. D. Sutherland, J. Carroll, William Baird. Liberal advances made to encourage the acquisition of Freeholds, or for the erection of Buildings on Freehold or Leasehold Properties, repayable by fortnightly, monthly, or quarterly instalments-—this being much more convenient and profitable to the borrower than money borrowed in the ordinary way of mortgage. This Society being established on the Permanent Principle, Investing and Borrowing Shares can be taken up at any time. Every information supplied upon applica- j tion at the office of the Society. WILL S. DOUGLAS, j Secretary, 1