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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 245, 15 October 1874, Page 4

Insurance Companies. SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. CAPITAL £750,000, WITH Unlimited Liability of Shareholders. The GREAT SUCCESS and POPULARITY of this Company is now an established fact, having been the first Colonial Company founded with a numerous body of Shareholders resident throughout the Provinces of .New Zealand. It ha« now got a firm footing, ana 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 Mutual Association. 2. Has already a LARGE PAID-UP CAPITAL and RESKRVE FUND. 3. Makes PROMPT and LIBERAL SETTLEMENT of LOSSES here without reference to Head Office. Fire and Mabinb Risks taken at the LOWEST CURRENT RATES, and all particulars given to intending Insurers. SCLANDERS, & CO., 409 Agekts. ■VT.O RWICH UNION -^ FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The Policies issued by this Institution, among othtr 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, j Offers j UNQUESTIONABLE SECURITY, which is of the utmost consequence in selecting an Office in which to -kuure r and in | which IMMEDIATE SETTLEMENT op LOSSES is amply provided for, the Society's Agents being authorized by special powers, to adjust Claims and pay 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 thoroughly NATIONAL INSTITUTION. rNo charge is made for Surveys or Policies, and in premiums of insurance on ah proi perties THE LOWEST RATES ARE CHARGED xoasiatent with Security. "'n proof of the great public confidence in the Norwich Union in England, on the Continent, and in the Colonies, its Business (**i7/ 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 and Agent. %* Sub-Agencies are now established in all the surrounding districts and in Maryborough. 1848 STANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY op NEW ZEALAND. FJRE AND MARINE. Capital £1,000,000. Unlimited Liability of a large body of Colonial Shareholders. Insurers in this Office participate in the profits— a. liberal arrangement not afforded by »ny other Company doing business in the Colony. Insurances effected at as low rates as any other Company. NELSON B RANCH. LOCAL DIRECTORS. A. J. Richmond, Esq., M.H.R. A. Pitt, Esq., M.P.C. Sdb-Aqents : Stoke & Suburban South Mr, W. Root. Kiciimond, Appleby,Ranz^u, and Hope ... E.B.W*BiNO,Esq Spring brove Mr. J. Rosb. Lower md Upptr Wakefield, and Fox Hill ... Mr. R. Chattock. Waimea West Mr A. J. Palmbr Low r Mouttre, Motueka, and Biwaka Mr H. A. Tabbant Takaktt and Motupipi ... Mr G. C. Gilbert. Collingwood Mr V 7. C. Riley. A. W. SCAIFE, 1614 Chief Agent.