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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 718, 29 July 1878, Page 1

PUBLIC COMPANIES The colonial insurance comPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital • Two Millions. This Company offers to Insurers the following combined advantages : Absolute Security. Participation in the profits upon an equal basis alike for small ana large insurers. Prompt and liberal settlement of claims. TTTE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE. The Company, having reserved 100,000 Shares (half the capital) to be allotted from time to time to ACTUAr- insurers only in proportion to the amount of insurance pre-minms-paid, offers to the public generally, and particularly to small insurers, the twofold advantage, which no other company in New Zealand possesses, that of absolute security against loss, combined with participation in the profits of one of the safest and most lucrative kinds of investment. An insurer with this Coinponv, exercising his optional privilege and becoming a shareholder, in effect reduces the rate charged 011 hi* own property in proportion to the amount of premimum he pays and the influence he exerts to induce others to insure with the Company. NOTICE TO INSURERS. At the expiration of the first financial period of the Company, the Directors will offer to persons who may have previously insured the right of taking up at par (viz., on payment of the called-up capital only, which will not exceed ten shillings per share) one of the reserved shares for every £1 of Insurance Premium paid by them, whether from Fire or Marine risks. The Company will lie prepared to undertake Fire aud Marine Mi&ks at THE LOWEST CURRENT RATES, On and after Monday, the 24th June, at the offices of the agent. J. BOOTH, Tyne-street, Next door but one to Bank of New Zealand. 930 North buitish and m ki:canTILE INSURANCE COMP \NY, LONDON AND EDINBURGH. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Specia Acts of Parliament. Subscribed Capital - - £2,0u0,000 sterling Fire Reserve Funds (1876) - £1,082,768.

The undersigned have been appointed the Company's agents, and are authorised to insure against Fire at Lowest Current Kates. Losses settled with promptitude and liberality on the spot. LEES AND MOORE, S2O Agents for Oamaru. UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND MARINE. Capital - £2,000,000 Sterling. rfflHlS Company is now prepared to tak J- FIRE AND MARINE FJSKS at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. Full particulars obtainable on application to the undersigned. FRANK DUNLOP, Agent for Oamaru. .September 10, 1877. 695 jV* E\V ZEALAND INSURANCE -L> COMPANY. FIUE AND MARINF, Capital £1,000,000 Fire Department.—insurances grantee' •it Lowest Current Rates on Buildings, Mills; Breweries, Stocks, Furniture, Farm Pro. duce, Stacks, &c., &c. Marine Department.—l. Hulls insured on the voyrga or time. 2. Merchandise. Goods, Freight &c.

The above Company being the first Inurance Company established in New Zealand, had prior claims to the patronage of ■Sew Zcaiand Colonists ; aud being A LOCAL INSTITUTION, the whole of the funds are nvesteil in the Colony. Agent for Oam/htt OT7>n(?n»r SUATPTT?. I }. BUSINESS - MOTIOES. PAFvTNERSHIP NOTICE. TXJ"E, the undersigned, have this day ' * ENThHED INTO PARTNERSHIP as Laud and General Commission Agents, and will carry on business under the style o£ AITKEN AND SPAIN, On the premises in Tyne-street, in which Mr. Aitken has heretofore conducted his business. Dated this 15th day of June, 1878. WILLIAM AITKEN 924 . „..:WJLLXAAL.SPAIN. jyj-ESSKS. COWIE a BUCKINGHAM, COMMISSION "AGENTS, ACCOUNTANTS, AND COLLECTORS. Office : Tyne-street, opposite Criterion Hotel, Oamaru. Registry for Female Servants and Farm Laborers. 737