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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5352, 23 May 1878, Page 1

Public Cor.ipa.mes ri'UIK SCOTTISH AND NEW ZEAX LAND 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 Dates of Interest, and to airange 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. A AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PRO VIXX DENT SOCIETY. . . 1 Established ik the Yeau 1849. For Life Assurance on the Mutual Principle. New Zealand Branch : Head Office Wellington. Local Board of Directors : The Hon. O. J. Phauazyn, M.L.C., Chairman, The Hon. Sir W. Fitzherbert, K.C.M.G. and M.H.R., Deputy-chairman, A de B. Biiandon, Esq., M.H.R., George Hunter, Esq., M.H.R., and The Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D. and M.L.C. Invested Funds, Animal Income Amount Assured Claims Paid ... Policies iu Force ... £2,300,000 ... 550,000 ... 12,000,000 ... . 850,000 ... ' 31,000 LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM. Sixth Division or Promts. The whole of the profits are divided amongst the assured, and bonuses to the amount of £910,000 have already been allotted. The last division of profits took place in 1874, and the cash surplus then divided amounted to £235,000, giving additions to policies averaging £3 per cent, per annum on the sum assured. The bonuses paid on policies becoming claims have varied from £ls per cent, on the sum assured for a policy of five years' standing to £l5O per cent, for one of twenty-five years’' duration. Bonuses become vested additions to policies when they have been full five years in force. - The profits realised during the last five years will be ascertained and divid-d as at 31st December next, and 'all policies issued on or before that date will be entitled to participate in the profits of quinquennium. Prospectuses, forms of proposals, and all information ■ may bo obtained from the Branch Office, Wellington, or from any of the Society’s agents. ; EDWARD W. LOWE, Resident Secretary, NEW,ZEALAND Loan & mercantile agency co. (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, &q., for sale in Loudon on commission at rates which may be : learned on application at the company’s office. W. H. TRAPP, ; Pro-Ageut. Offices . and Stores ; Custom House-quay, . (Next Plimmer’s Wharf).

-VT’A TI ON, A L .MORTGAGE--AND J3I AGENCY: COMPANY OF NEW Eli ALAND (LIMITED). - ; Tlio 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 anticipation of next clip, may obtain them on liberal terms. EDWARD PEARCE, : : Agent for Wellington and Hawke's Bay. LOBE MARINE INSURANCE COMXJT PANY (LIMITED.) /CAPITAL ... , ../ £500,000. Head Office : London. Risks oh merchandise and steamers to all parts of the world taken at: lowest current rates. ' : Losses promptly paid in Wellington, Loudon, or any of the numerous agencies. , LEVIN ;* CO., Agents. 'Y'ICTOItIA INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. Established 1849. CAPITAL , ... ...£200,000 I 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. rrtRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSURANCE X COMPANY OF HAMBURG. THE above Company is prepared to accept i risks in; town : and country at lowest current rates. :vi--WHITT EM, NICHOLSON, & CO., < in:: .■ .... .Agents..;,' :JHVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. All classes of FIFE RISKS in town or; country taken at current rates. . < j ' ‘ EDWARD (PEARCE, Agent. HE UNITED INSURANCE COMPANY, ' . .Established a.d. 18C2. -Incorporated by Act of Parliament of New; ; South Wales. iCAWTAL ... .... ... £500,000 , . With the Unlimited Liability of a 1 LARGE COLONIAL PROPRIETARY. ; Head; Office—; 275, GEORGE (STREET, SYDNEY. . M ARJNB-'BUSINESS. - 1 Insurauues effected on Hulls of Steamers or Sailing Vessels'for-Time or Voyage, Goods, (Treasure, Freights, Live l Stock, Profits, Com- ; missions, Personal Effect , Passage Money, &.c. If required, Claims can be made Payable in London, Melbourne, Adelaide, or New Zealand: " - - ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 - J ■ FIRE BUSINESS. 1 ! Buildings of all - descriptions in town and ■ country, and their , contents (including Wooljshedsand Wool therein or in transit to shipiping port), also,Kents,.are insured. , , i , The Bates of.Peejiidji charged will be ffouud to.be as low as those of any Office offerling equal security to Policy Holders. | Losses arc settled with promptitude and .liberality. ,j ; Secubtit.—This Company offers to persons., seeking Insurances a Security unsurpassed by, any othcr Oifico doing a similar business in the Colony ; as, in addition to the ample Capital j .and Invested Funds, the Liability of the Share-, holders is unlimited. JOSEPH, NATH AN & CO., Agents, Wellington. IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1803. ■ CAPITAL ... £1,000,000. Fire risks of all classes in town and country accepted at Lowest Current Kates. I’rompt and liberal settlement of claim,! ; KRULL & CO.. Agents. A GB A NDI. MAB QU E