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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4578, 22 November 1875, Page 4

Insurance Companies N EW ZEALAND INSUBance company. Established 1859. Capital£l,ooo,ooo, of which£24o,ooo is paid up. Eire and Marine Risks of every description wiH be accepted at the lowest current rates. BETHUNE & HUNTER, Agents, Wellington. THE SOUTH BRITISH EIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. CAPITAL £750,000. With Unlimited Liability of Shareholders. The above Company offers undoubted security to insurers, having a large, wealthy, and influential proprietary resident in the Colony, where also all its funds are invested. As a purely Colonial institution, it has therefore a prior claim on insurers. The Company undertake insurance against every description of both Eire and Marine Risks at lowest current rates of premium. The chief characteristics of the Company are undoubted security, liberal terms, and prompt settlement of losses. Eor proposal forms and further particulars, Apply to W. & G. TURNBULL & CO., Agents, Wellington. gTANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. And for the Guarantee of Fidelity in Situations of Trust. CAPITAL—ONE MILLION STERLING Head Office : PRINCES-STRBET, DUNEDIN. Losses by Fire Insured against on stores, warehouses, dwelling-houses, &c., at current rates. , The Company will also take risks on wool and all kinds of merchandise on land or at sea, and either on valued or open policies, on the most favorable terms. Particular attention is drawn to Articles of Association, by which, after paying shareholders 10 per cent., the balance is to be distributed as fellows ;—4O per cent, to go to Reserve Fund, 30 per cent, to POLICY HOLDERS, and balance as Company may determine. Agents for Wellington : SAMUEL, LADD, & CO. IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. , Established 1803. Capital ... ... £1,600,000. FIRE Risks of all classes in Town and Country, accepted at lowest Current Rates. Prompt and liberal settlement of claim. KRULL & Co., Agents. ~|~ & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. All classes of FIRE RISKS in town or country taken at current rates. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent. JgATAVIA SEA & FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1843. An AGENCY of the above Company has been opened in Wellington under charge of the undersigned, who will grant policies at current rates of cremium on Fire and Marine risks. EDWARD PEARCE. Wellington, August 18, 1875. ■ Merchants and shippers of : : ■ GOODS Would find their Insurance business transacted with greater facility by adopting FLOATING POLICIES - ■ . Issued by the NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY To New Zealand and Australian ports, embodying favorable terms for the assured. Claims can be made payable in every port. JOHNSTON & CO., Agents, Panama and Featherston streets. no HOUSEHOLDERS, PROPERTYL HOLDERS, ■ MORTGAGEES, AND OTHERS. Complete indemnity from Loss or Damage v Fire granted under policies of THE NATIONAL COMPANY, udoubted security, low rates, prompt and liberal adjustment of claims. JOHNSTON & CO., Agents. Panama and Featherston streets. jyiCTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. Established 1849. CAPITAL £200,000 Head Office : Melbourne. Insurance of every description effected at lowest current rates, and claims promptly met. Losses csn be made payable in any part of New Zealand or the Aus&alian colonies. LEVIN & CO., Agents. Australian mutual PROVIDENT SOCIETY. FOE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, &o. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH: Head Office, Wellington. Present Annual Revenue, £359,742. Accumulated & Invested Funds, £1,500,647. Persons Assuring with this Office share the whole profits, and a Bonus is declared every fifth year. JOSEPH DYER, Resident Secretary. Government Land Sales T E W ZEALAND. S PKOVINCE OF TARANAKI. k SERIES of LAND SALES is being d in the PROVINCE of TARANAKI ier the Waste Lands Board of the province, > Lands offered being Town and Rural Alments, the latter varying in area from 20 to ) acres, and the conditions of sale being by SFERRED PAYMENTS extended over a Years, by Auction, for CASH; and by lEE SELECTION for CASH. The disct is traversed by the Waitara-Wanganui ilway, now in course of construction, and ich is expected to ■be completed as far as jlewood—the Township at the couuneucent of the district —in about eighteen months, rhe land is well adapted to working settlers small capital, as it is easily accessible, has mdanoe of timber for building, fencing, fuel, i shelter; never-failing streams of water, i a very productive soil. A good main road traverses the district so • as it is yet open for purchase, and the strict Roads will also be opened up by the ovincial Government, so as to make each otment accessible from the main line of Iway. Plans, schedules, land regulations of the )vince, &c., can be obtained at the Crown .nds Office, New Plymouth. C. D. WHITOOMBE, Commissioner of Crown LandsDrown Lands Office, Taranaki. March 17, 1875. Business Notices CONOMY IN GAS. V PATENT GAS LIGHT CONTROLLER AND IMPROVER, le undersigned, is bringing out an PRUMENT that will LESSEN the SUMPTION and IMPROVE THE iLITY of GAS in all largo establishs where a number of burners is used. ie instrument is fixed between the meter ;he first light, and will so control the sup(rithout interfering with the taps or meter, all waste arising from carelessness will be ,ted, and the annoyance that so frequently ■a from water lodging in the pipes will be ually prevented, r further particulars, apply to J. T. LOVE, Manners-street, Patentee ; to J. M. TAYLOR, Odd Fellows’ Hall Agent.