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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5355, 27 May 1878, Page 1

i Public Companies The Scottish and new Zealand INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED. ' Capita!.—£soo,ooo. This Cjinpa.il 3’ is prepared to make Advances to farmers and others on freehold or leasehold properties at .the Lowest Current Kates 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. Australian mutual provident society. Established in the Yeah 1849. For Life Assurance on the Mutual Principle. New Zealand Branch ; Head Office Wellington. Local Board of Directors : The Hou. O. J. Phaha/.yn, M.L.C., Chairman, The Hon. Sir W. Fiteherbeut, K.O.M.G. and M.H.R., Deputy-chairman, A de B. Brandon, Esq., M.H.R., George HUNTER, Esq., M. H.R., and The Hon. Morgan S. Grace, M.D. and M.L.C. Invested Funds Annual Income Amount Assured Claims Paid ... Policies iu Force ... £2,300,000. 530,000 12,000,000 : 850,000 31,000 LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM. Sixth Division of Profits. 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 iu 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 divided 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 be 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, &c., for sale iu Loudon on commission at rates which may be learned on application at the company’s office; - ■ ; W. H. TRAPP, Pro Agent. Offices and Stokes : • Custom House-quay, (Next 'Plimmer’s Wharf). TVT ATION Ah ; MORTGAGE AND JJM AGENCY COMPANY OF. NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED). The undersigned is appointed AGENT for the above company, and is authorised to make Advances to Station-holders aud 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 COMVJT PANY (LIMITED.) CAPITAL ... ... £509,000. Head Office : London. Risks on merchandise and steamers to all parts of the world taken at lowest current rates. ■ ■ ■ Losses promptly paid in Wellington, Loudon, or any of the numerous agencies. • LEVIN & CO., Agents. 'yiOTORIA 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. Transatlantic fire insurance COMPANY OF HAMBURG. THE above Company is prepared to accept risks in town and country at lowest current rat WHITTEM, NICHOLSON, & CO., Agents. INSURANCE COMPANY. 1 All classes cf FIRE RISES In town or country taken at current rates. EDWARD PEARCE, Agent. "IHE UNITED INSURANCE COMPANY, Established a.d. 1862. mrporated by Act of Parliament of New South Wales. fetal £500,000 With the Unlimited Liability of a jARGE COLONIAL PROPRIETARY. Head Office — 276, GEORGE-STRBBT, SYDNEY. ■ MARINE BUSINESS, V [nsuranoes effected on Hulls of Steamers or iling Vessels for Time or Voyage, Goods, easure, Freights, Live Stock, Profits, Comasions, Personal Effect-, Passage Money, &c. If required, Claims can bo made Payable m ndon, Melbourne, Adelaide, or New Zeakl. EIRE BUSINESS. Buildings of all descriptions iu town and mtry, and their contents (including Woolids and Wool therein or in transit to shipig port), also Rents, are insured. _ , The Rates of Premium charged will be ind to bo as low as’ those of any Office offer- ; equal security to Policy Holders.' Losses are settled 1 with promptitude, ana erality. Security.— This Company offers to persons king Insurances a Security unsurpassed by y other Office doing a similar business m the iouy ; as, in addition to the.ample Capital 1 Invested Funds, the Liability of the fohareders is unlimited. ' JOSEPH NATHAN & 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 Rates. Prompt and liberal settlement of claim. , / KRULL & CO.. Agents. A GRANDE MARQUE