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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 321, 29 September 1874, Page 4

Insurance Companies. SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY op NEW ZEALAND. CAPITAL £750,000, WITH Unlimited Liability of Shareholders. The GREAT SUCCESS and POPULARITY of this Company is now an established fact, having heen the first Colonial Company founded with a numerous body of Shareholders resident throughout the Provinces of New Zealand. It has now got a firm footing, and has a LARGE and INCREASING BUSINESS in both its Fire and Marine Departments. To Insurers it possesses the following advantages :-— 1. A LARGE and INFLUENTIAL COLONIAL PROPRIETARY, nearly all of whom are Insurers, which gives to the Company the real character of a Mntnal Association. 2. Has already a LARGE PAID-UP CAPITAL and RESERVE FUND. 3. Makes PROMPT and LIBERAL SETTLEMENT of LOSSES here without reference to Head Office. Firb and Mabink Rises taken at the LOWEST CURRENT RATES, and all particulars given to intending Insurers. SCLANDERS, & CO., 409 AOBHTS. NORWICH UNION EIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The Policies issued by tbis Institution, among other special advantages, cover LOSSES BY GAS AND -LIGHTNING. Intending Insurers are reminded that this is the oldest Office doing business in New Zealand, and, possessing an IMMENSE RESERVE FUND,. Offers UNQUESTIONABLE SECURITY, which ia of the utmost consequence in' selecting an Office in which to insure, and in which IMMEDIATE SETTLEMENT of LOSSES is amply provided for, the Society's Agenta being authorized by special powers, to adjust Claims and p.y the same promptly, without reference to Directors, Local Boards, or Resident Secretaries. The New Zealand Funds of the Society are retained and invested in the Colony, thus imparting to it the character of a thorongbly NATIONAL INSTITUTION. No charge is made for Surveys or Policies, and in premiums oi insurance on all properties THE LOWEST RATES ARE CHARGED consistent with Security.

in proof of the great public confidence in the Norwich Union in England, on the Continent, and in the Colonies, its Business {still increasing) has reached upwards of £100,000,000. Further, particulars of the numerous advantages offered to Insurers by this well-known Office, may be obtained on application to W. M. STANTON, The Society's Attorney aud Agent. *** Sub-Agencies are now established in all the surrounding districts and in Marlborou « h - 1848 STANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY op NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital £1,000,000. Unlimited Liability of a large body of Colonial Shareholders. Insurers in this Office participate in ths profiu— a. liberal arrangement not afforded by any other Company doing businesi in the Colony. Insurances effected at as low rates as any other Company. N E LSON fVR ANCH. LOCAL DIRECTORS. A J. Richmond, Esq., M.H.R. A. Pur, Eeq., M.P.C. Sob-Agents : Stoke & Suburban South Mr. W. Root Hichmond, Appleby, Ranz »v, and Hope ... E. B. Waring, Esq Spring Grove Mr. J.Rosb. Lower *nd Upper Wakefield, and Fox Hill ... Mr. R. Chattock Waimea West Mr A. J. Pai__bb Lower Moutere, Motneka, and Riwaka ... ... MrH.A.T___BAHT Takaka and Motupipi ... Mr G. C. Gil best. Collingwood Mr W. C. Rile*. A. W. SCAIFE, 164* Chief Agent.