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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4963, 17 February 1877, Page 1

I Insurance Companies AT AVIA SEA & FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established, 1843. The undersigned is authorised to grant policies on all classes of Fire and Marine EDWARD PEARCE, Agent. INSURANCE COMPANY. All classes of FIRE RISKS in town or country taken- at current rates. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent. , THE SOUTH BRITISH FIRE 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 Fire 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. For 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-STREET. DUNEDIN, Losses by Fife Insured against on stores, warehouses, dwelling-houses, &c., at current pates. 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 follows :—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. yiCTORIA 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 can be made payable in any part of New Zealand or the Australian colonies. LEVIN & CO., Agents. /"i LOBE MARINE INSURANCE COMIJT PANY (LIMITED.) CAPITAL £500,000. Head Office ; London. Risks on merchandise and steamers to all parts of the world taken at .lowest current rates. Losses promptly paid in Wellington, London, or any of the numerous agencies. • LEVIN & CO., Agents. Australian alliance assurance COMPANY. An Agency of the above Company has been opened in Wellington under charge of the undersigned, who will grant policies at lowest current hates of premium on Marine risks. JAMES O’SHEA, ! Agent. Transatlantic fire insurance COMPANY OF HAMBURG. THE above Company is prepared to accept risks in town and country at lowest current .T*' WHITTEM, NICHOLSON, & CO., • i , '■ Agents.

Hotels U N lON H O T B L. WINES AND SPIRITS OF THE BEST BRANDS. One of Alcock’s superior billiard tables. W. H. SWAIN, Proprietor. RATIONAL HOTEL, LAMBTONQUAY. Messrs. BIRCH & WILLIAMS are now the proprietors of the above splendid new Hotel.: The National occupies a central situation, and is. furnished throughout with special regard to comfort. The new proprietors hope to merit a liberal amount of patronage frem their friends and the public. HENRY HALL’S TIKE OF EDINBURGH HOTEL. Manager : JOHN MOSS BROADBENT. THE MARQUIS OF NORMANDY HOTEL, CARTERTON. ! This New and Commodious Hotel is now open to the public under the management of the proprietor, Mr. Thomas Hooker. , ! The Hotel is situate in the centre of the rapidly .rising, township of. Carterton, and is one of the moat complete establishments in the colony, containing a large front bar, bar parlor, commercial room,, dining-room (35ft. by 19ft.), smoking-rooms, private rooms for families and visitors. , ’ . A superb Billiard-room fitted with one or Alcook’s full-sizod tables, and all the latest improvements. Hot and cold water baths always ready

together with eighteen bedrooms. The wines, spirits, beer, and other liquors, are guaranteed as of the first quality. Travellers and visitors will find every home comfort at this Unrivalled Hotel. Sample rooms for commercial gentlemen. First-class stabling and paddocks. To sportsmen this locality offers every inducement, there being plenty of game of all kinds in the immediate vicinity. T. HOOKER, Proprietor. PANAMA HOTEL, Comer of Taranaki and Vivian-streets. G. S. NICHOLLS, Proprietor. Superior accommodation for families, permanent boarders, and visitors to Wellington. Within ten minutes’ walk from the wharf. One of Thurston’s beat Billiard Tables on the premises. The undersigned begs to return thanks for favors conferred on him in the past, and trusts the same may be shown to his successor. Wm. LIGHT.