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Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 56, 16 November 1889, Page 2

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Mr* ineUnce to the head office in OowMny.aad in th; other through J u wiu i* »p. pwmt l# anr hnsinesa tfifel! lAatma of flro ItwunuMe in totany oeyond It* mall of Hwnraro. In (Itk fits! piece (In dblay occasioned : y-r«y. f* **• romi. shoui way InvM us HUw mercy ol the fiary clamant fur many month* EMd in the next piece the exponent Hhpadieil todt are ad greet m, )n the Wpnily of cases, to iadnoe the le* snrera to ran their own risks end Ifnel to Providence. Thin state cf things Is of too primitive e character to be continued much longer. The world now leeks upon every man, exoept the actual pauper, nfl responsible for his own support If mirfortnne* MI On him of a character which ho ought to have provided for when be was in n financial position to do so by insuring himself > against destruction of his property I by tire. . Net much sympathy is sc* , coi Jol to him for his own careless. 1 ness and m-glcct if such provision is r not utndt*. Insnrnnee companies sll ; over the world, excepting Samoa, , have their c<***nts industriously : inviting clients for their vari- ,, on* offices, and accept iiig risks |j at the lowest possible remunerative ; percentage Hero we cannot obtain a single insurance in any of the colonial offices, nor is then; even a lepifscr.talive of any of the chm--1 panics in Samoa. In proof of what wc state, with reference to an application, together with the expense ’ of it, to the foreign insurance i offices whose policies are issued in I Samoa, we were, informed by a respectable ctorvkcopcr a few days 1 'ago that several months ego hs f offered to insure his stoek and buildt lags i o their tifficcs, and be haa I ’ Just now boon informed that pro* ■ pcrly surveyed plans of the ground, ' buildings, and adjoining buildings, •j and immeroos other detail* would ■ have to he made Mid' forward^ * to the' head office before the com* j, kafijt aooW raeeept-the -tafersnse. ’ i md than only at a rate MHffimt* * i ga more than doable the tpibiary > taleaiawhere.* I i f flklffiffi ffiMtflv ilglffiif ikn nliannra 1 1 B UIIIV NIIWJJ nvtWf.W JWlvs t 4 f anything likes general Insurance 111 our' BeMMdnity. ‘ Tin'boat of \jnM mA aa |kU I my required for their information* ! sMuU bn iMMMariiy taSga. ant * tl da, iIM to Um Wgh petoknlaga; r '■% cnHuadsnhUlly keabdrlolttfy « *M» '*f- geenil inuMtwn dw flmoa. H Is-lhe doty uf otir omt> I Mkaffiiniih ffi? mllgkhwi tW mm laraa k^kaia B-Ll,; " ftd&Mr' towM*'^h£ifa [W 'li/thffi M b *

-. ? - Twle r <h* Map* e^ k ft food Md, and fcwwM» |Wi an effort to ookbjMT ft hftrihMMio tbe j«|yß<U yMiok l Woald hft/ound to bo at Ifttiioal advantage. We fool yjprftotly mom rod that it inly reqiibte very,little exertion on oor port to tin the ntoUirhnntt of WTT iMWfiiifp ifiMiii Ja Ajla Tb** will then bo AO delay in k?*0» *?■ *«*• f* «Mh noerciatry expense attached tea The agents of the enapaniee ne.fljfl fbo apot, and their judgment of (W Mirmuortfaigs, bnibllnge, And stock 1 in oat noco warily bo wW; cornet than either plana nr ropd#* M any attempt to dekaftd tk companies could of eoarae he note easily detected.