PUBLIC COMPANIES. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND* GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. For Fire, Lefe, and Annuhsis. Capital Subscribed ............ £%i) 00 OOfr Invested Funds^ Capital paid up..... £400,000, Reserve surplus fund 1000 000- Life Department reserve i 450 qq§. Balance of undivided profits '200,00G* (Three million and fifty thou sand pounds) 3,050,00& Revenue. Firepremiums ~., £580,0<Xb Life premiums 210,000* Interest of investments 160 00(K j (Nine hundred and fifty fchou- I sand pounds) £950,000* Medical Referee—A. Eccles, Esq. AU claims are settled in the Colony. Tables of Rates for Fire and Life Insurance., in aU its Branches, and every information maj?^ be obtained from GEO. S. BRODRICK, Rattray street.- : ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND LIFE. Capital—Two Millions Sterijng. .' Funds in Hind Exceed £1,000,(MM).' EIRE. INSURANCES on aU descriptions of goods?, X- and buddings, in town and country effected at current rates. :jßj-- Losses settled here promptly, without the delay incidental to a reference to Austridia* orto Europe. j LIFE.; Large Life Bonuses declared 1855 and 1860,, £2 per cent, per annum j the largest bonusi ever continuously declared by any company, Almanacs containing^tables of premiums* and other particulars, fco be had on appUca tion. Medical Examiner : Dr Hocken. MORISON, LAW and CO., Agents, Dunedin and InvercarguL VICTORIA FIRE AND MARINE: INSURANCE COMPANY. T/ICTORIA LIFE AND GENERAL, * INSURANCE COMPANY. United Capital ... ...£2,200,000. Offices: Princes street. A HILL JACK,, i Res. Sec. for. JNew Zealand. LAUNDRY NOTICES. GLENFIELD STARCH. p ■ Exclusively used in the Royal Laundry. By Special Appointment, STARCH PUR V E YfO R S To Her Royal Highness THE PRINCESS OF WALES. mHE best proofs of the great superiority off -*- this Starch are the .numerous distin guishing marks of approval which have been*, accorded to it from aU quarters; amdngsfe:. those may be mentioned the- foUowing,. viz. :— It is. exclusively used in the Royal Laun dry, AND Her Majesty's Laundress says it is the fihest Starch she ever used. Honorable mention was awarded afc the^ Great Exhibition in London in 1851. A Prize Medal was - awarded for -it at the- New York Exhibition in 1853 ; and ; A Prize Medal was also awarded for it the International Exhibition in London, 1862_ Her Majesty's Lace Dressei-says that it is- .the best she has tried ; and. '; Hundreds of Grocers, ke.', say thatitpleases> their customers better than any other; and. 