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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5319, 13 April 1878, Page 3

Public Companies PRELIMINARY NOTICE. THE COLONIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OP NEW ZEALAND, (To be registered under the Joint Stock Companies Acts), POR FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE. Capital ... ... Two Millions Steeling In 200,000 Shares of £lO Bach, Ten Shillings per Share payable thereon. Making £IOO,OOO Cash Capital. CHIEF OFFICES ... WELLINGTON. BOARD OP DIRECTORS. Chairman : The Hon. C. J. Pharazyn, M.L.C., Chairman Local Board Australian Mutual Provident Society. Vice-Chairman : The Hon. Randall Johnson, M.L.C., Managing Director Northern Land and Loan Company. Jacob Joseph, Esq., Merchant. A db B. Brandon, Esq., M.H.R., Local Director Australian Mutual Provident Society. E. W. Mills, Esq., Merchant. The Hon. M. S. Grace, M.L.C., Local Director Australian Mutual Provident Society. Walter J. Nathan, Esq., Merchant. Solicitors : Messrs. Brandon and Son, Wellington. General Manager. . A thoroughly competent and experienced General Manager will be appointed. Bankers To be hereafter appointed by the Directors. Secretary For organisation (and subsequently Agent for Canterbury): Mr. Fredk. B. A. Graham. The above' Directors are entrusted with the organisation of the Company, and have power to frame the Articles of Association, and to register the same. They will provide for the Board a tenure of office of one year, and the annual retirement of the usual proportion of their number. The Directors have each subscribed for £IOOO cash interest in the Company, and have undertaken its formation as a thoroughly Colonial institution, with head-quarters in Wellington. One-half only of the shares will be immediately issued, and the Directors having already apportioned a considerable number in securing a large amount of support, are prepared to place the available balance for Wellington with persons whose business or influence is calculated to be valuable to the company. Adequate proportions of the first half of the capital are reserved for the other parts of the colony, and will there bs allotted by the Directors upon a similar principle, in the mutual interests of all concerned. The Company having thus secured a large amount of support, and being able to offer to the public the guarantee of ample Cash Capital, will commence business, the whole of the remaining 100,000 shares being reserved for allotment in successive issues to actual insurers with the Company in proportion to the insurance premiums paid by them. ATIONAL MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED). The undersigned! is appointed AGENT for the above company, and is authorised to make Advances to Station-holders and others, on Mortgage of freehold property, or against shipments of wool or other produce. Wool-growers requiring advances in antici- ■ pation of next clip, may obtain them on liberal terms. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent for Wellington and Hawke’s Bay. NEW ZEALAND Loan & mercantile agency go. (LIMITED). Capital £3,000,000. The Company makes advances on stations, on stock, on growing clips ‘of wool, and on other produce ; and receives consignments of wool, hemp, grain, tallow, preserved meats, leather, horns, &0., for sale in London on commission at rates which may be learned on application at the company’s office. W. H. TRAPP, Pro Agent. Offices and Stores ; Custom House-quay, (Next Plimmer’s Wharf).

The Scottish and new Zealand INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED. Capital—£soo,ooo. This Company is prepared to make Advances to farmers and others on freehold or leasehold properties at the Lowest Current Rates of Interest, and to arrange for repayment by instalments if desired. Forms and particulars may be obtained at the Company’s Head Office, Esk-street, Invercargill, or by application to the undersigned. MURRAY, COMMON, & CO., Agents in Wellington. INSURANCE COMPANY. All classes cf FIRE RISKS in town or country taken at current rates. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent. RANSATLANTIG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OP HAMBURG. THE above Company is prepared to accept risks in town and country at lowest current rates. WHITTEM, NICHOLSON, & CO., Agents. Australian mutual proviDENT SOCIETY. Established in the year 1849. FOB MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH : HEAD OFFICE—WELLINGTON. The Annual Revenue exceeds £470,000. The AocumulatedFundnow exceeds £2,000,000. The Society has paid to representatives of deceased members upwards of £700,000. The Society has divided amongst its members £412,000, yielding reversionary bonus additions, amounting to £910,000. The New Business for the year 1876 was 4559 Policies, assuring £1,652,575, producing a new annual revenue of £56,300. Persons assuring in this office share the whole profits, and a bonus is declared every fifth year. ■ The annual report, prospectuses, and proposal forms may be had for will be sent post free), on application to the Branch Office, or to any of the Society’s Agents. EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary. Globe marine insurance company (LIMITED.) CAPITAL ...' , ... £500,000. Head Oeeiob : London. Bisks 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, ■yHCTOBIA 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.