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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3075, 23 December 1878, Page 4

Insurance Companies NORTH BRITISH AND MEROAIN TILE INSURANCE COMPAJSY. LONDON AND EDINBURGH. Established 1809. Incorporated by Boyal Charter. Subscribed Capital ... ... £2,000,000 Paid-up Capital ... ... 250,000 : Fire Reserve Fund ... £794.;577 Fire Premium Reserve 302,671 Total Fire Reserves... ... 1,097,248 Incomes of the Fire Depart- , vnjont.. Net Premiums and . , . ■ Interest ... ... ... 967,080 Fire Bisks taken on Buildings and Property on Thames Goldfields at Lowest Rateß. ' PIIOMPT AND LjBBBAIi^SBTTIKBraNTS. THOMAS VEALE, Agent, - • POLLEN STBEII*.. 33T4 mHE MAN CHESTER FIRE , AS■jL,,' StLBANCE COMPANY. ] .. Capital ... ... ... One Million Subling ■■.: > Annual Income- exceeds £250,000. : This Company was established in 1824. It poiießses, in additiou to a large pad up Capital, subscribed by a numerous and ; weal thy proprietary, a satisfactory reselrve fund, and thus offersi t» Insurers tbe most ample security. Every Description of Building and Contents Insured at the LOWEST RATES of PREMIUM. JgT AIL Claims for Loss or Damage by Fire Settled with Promptness and Liberality in the Colony. Agent for the Thames Goldfield— „t JOHN L. WHITFORD, 3472' ■ Albert street, Grabamstown.' ' ABBAITLT. AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. .Established in the Yjbaa.lß49. ' For Life Assurance on the Mutual Principle. Nxw Zealand Bbanch. ' Invested Funds £2,300,000 Annual Income 650,000 Amount Assured 12,000,000 > Claims Paid .' . ... ' 850,000 ; Policies in Force 31,000 LAST YEAR OF THE QUINQUENNIUM. Sixth Division of Pbofits. .. 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 anuum on the sum ; assured. The bonuses paid on policies becoming claims have varied from £15 per cent, on the sum assured for a policy of five years' standing to £150 per cent, for one of twenty-five j ears' duration. Bot-uses 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 Decemtasjiext, and all policies issued on or before that date will be entitled to participate in the prtfits of quinquennium. , Prospectus, forms of proposal, aiid all information may be obtained from the Branch Office, Wellington, or from any of the Society's agents. ■ • - . ■ : Edwabd W. Lows, ; - • ■■. Resident Secretary.: i / P. E. GELLI oNi , Agent fob ths: Thames. • ■r",.,... 3631 c - Business Notices ''' : BBOWINV BAEKETT, and Co.'S> Attckland ■ 'steam' Coffee ! COFFEES, IT IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY KNOWN THAT. GOOD COFFEE IS THE . BEST STIMULATING BEVERAGE BOTH FOR WINTER AND SUMMER. To obtain what you really want, aik for our Best Brands, the EXCELSIOR or STAN* DARD, which have sustained their good names over Ten Years, and have very much increased in demand—a sure proof of their being consumed and appreciated in all households , throughout, and even out of our province. Wholesale only at our Mills and Agents. CgT Retail at all Grocery Establishments in Town and Country. BSB Our best 3» lg Excelsior Brand, green label qualities. t«So Standard „ red • „ >-Every pkge g 1/3 Lion »> Vink » I with our r* t, 2 J signature Hi- , lil £.3 tt | Our lowest Sg .£ Anchor „ puce I qualities, a ,«»'g Crown „ yellow rwithout our g J signature. Our PEPPERS and SPICES we guarantee of Beat Quality and free of adulteration. : BEOWN, BARRETT & CO. Elliott street, 13th July, 1878. 3630 rr\H E HAYMARKET, -*■ 105, Queen Stbebt, AUCKLAND. CLOVER & GRASS SEEDS, Fob Sale, ok the Finest Quality, as tollows: — White Clover Red Clover Cowgrass Alskye Lucerne Rape Timothy Trefoil Cocksfoot Otago^Ryegraes Poverty Bay Ryegrass Pukekbhe Ryctgrass Italian Ryegraes Kentucky Blue Grass Red Top Ratstail Created Dogstail Meadow Foxtail Meadow, Sheep, and other Fescues, &o. Also BONEDUST, i-ineh, i-inch, and Sydney and American BONEFLOUR, GUANO, &o. PRESSED MEADOW and OATEN HAY. ' AIFBED BUOKIAND. 2717