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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5353, 24 May 1878, Page 1

Public Companies The Scottish and new Zealand INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED. Cawtal —£500,000. : ' * ' This Company is prepared. to make Advances to Hamers and-others on freehold pr; leasehold properties at; the Lowest Current Bates of Interest, and to arrange for repayment hy instalments if desired. 1 ■ i ; Forms and particulars may he obtained at the Company’s Hoad Office, Esk-strcet, Invercargill, or by application to the undersigned. • MUBRAY, COMMON,.*.CO., ~ Agents in Wellington. USTRALIAN MUTUAL FRO VI-; - • . . DENT SOCIETY. ' . Established in the Year 1819. For Life Assurance on the Mutual-Principle. New Zealand Beanou : Head Office' Wellington. Local Boakd of Diuectoks : _ The Hon. G.-J.-Phaiiazyn, M.L.0., Chairman, The Hon. Sir W;Fitzhbuueut, 1f.0.M.G. and M.H;R., Deputy-chairman, A de B; Bbandon, Esq., M.H.R., George Hunter, Esq., M.H.R., and The lion. Morgan 'S. Grace, M.D. and M.L.O. Invested Funds ; Annual Income Amount Assured Claims Paid ... 1 Policies iu Force £2,300,000 550,000, 12,000,000 850,000 : ' 31,000. LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM. - Sixth Division or PEoriis. ", The'whole of the profits are divided amongst the -'assured,' and' bonuses’ to the amount of; £910,000 have already been The; last division of profits took place in' 1814, 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 ou 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. . . - • u’ The profits realised during the last five years will bo ascertained and divided as at 31st December next, andall policies, issued, on or before that date will be 'entitled, to participate in the protit-: of quinquennium. _ : Prospectuses, forms of proposals, and all.in-; formation may be’ obtained from tho .Branch Office, Wellington, or from any of tho Society’s agents. ” EDWARD W. LOWE,Resident Secretary,. NEW ZEALAND CAN & MERCANTILE AGENCY CO. (LIMITED). L ( 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 moats, leather, 1 horns’, rice.,, for.hale dh London on 1 commission at rates which may bo learned on application at the company’s office. , ' W. H. TRAPP, . Pro Agouti’ 1 01-’EiLLc -and. Stores ■ : Custom Housk-quav, (Next Plimmer’a ■' Wharf). . ■ . . | nVTATXONAL -MORTGAGE . AND J3I AGENCY COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED). The undersigned is appointed AGENT for tho ; above company, and is authorised to make . Advances to StatiUn-holders and others, on 'Mortgage of- freehold ■ property, ’ or against shipments of-:wool or other produce.- ' Wool-growers.requiring advances in antic!-, pation of next: clip, may obtain them on liberal terms, i: - - EDWARD PEARCE, Ageut for Wellington and Hawke’s Bay. LOBE.MARINE INSURANCE GUjVL PANY (LIMITED.) - ■ ' . capital'' ... : Vii: £500,000. m Head Oeeioe : .London, '■■ ■ Risks on merchandise and steamers to all parts of the world taken at lowest current rates...,,. . ,■ 1 Losses promptly paid in Wellington, London, or any of the numerous agencies.' LEVIN & CO., Agents. 'yiCTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY, FIRE AND MARINE. , ■ Established 1849. CAPITAL • iii ...-£200,000 Head Office Melbourne. Insurance of ’ every description effected at lowest current i-ates, and claims promptly mot. Loases.oau be made payable in anypart of New Zealand or the Australian colonies. LEVIN & 00., Agents. RANSATLANTIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG. THE above Company is prepared to accept risks in town and country at, lowest current rates., i . WHITTEM, NICHOLSON, & CO., ■' . -V, ’ .- Agents. INSURANCE' COMPANY, All classes cf FIRE RISKS.in town or country taken at current rates. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent. ;H B U NIT ED‘INS URA NC E COMPANY, . Established a.d. 1862. ’ Incorporated by Act of Parliament of New South Wales.. , Capital ... ... £500,000. With tho Unlimited Liability of a LARGE COLONIAL PROPRIETARY. ■Head XJfi’ioe — 275, GEORGE-STREBT, SYDNEY, , MARINE BUSINESS. ' . ' • - Insurances efloctcd on HuUa of Steamers or Sailing Vessels for- Time 1 or Voyage,. Goods, Treasure, Freights, Live Stock, Profits,’Commissions, Personal Effect-, Passage Money, &c. If required, Claims can bo made Payable iu London, Melbourne, Adelaide, or New Zealand. - ' FIRE BUSINESS. Buildings; of all descriptions in town and country, and; their contents (including Woolsheds and Wool therein or in transit to ehijjping port),‘also Rents, are insured. . Tub Bates l or Peemiuji charged, will bo found to bo as low as those of any Office offering equal security to Policy Holders. Losses ; are settled with promptitude and liberality. ■ Secdeity.—This Company offers to persons seeking Insurances a Security unsurpassed by any other Office doing a similar business iu tho Colony ; as, in addition to tho ample Capital and Invested Funds, the Liability of tho Share-, holders is unlimited.' ‘ JOSEPH NATHAN & CO., i 1 Agents, Wellington. MPERTAL FIRE ’INSURANCE COMPANY. ”Established ISOS. CAPITAL iei.epo.ooo.’ u risks’of all classes in’town and-country accepted at Lowest'Current Rates: ’Prompt and'liberal settlement of claim. 11 ' '-.", . KRTTLL & CO., Agents..; i T A -G-EAK'DI! 'mlaK QU E