The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-19 00:00:00

£2,815,465 3 0

£1,634,365 5 6

This comparison evinces most distinctly, and in e marked degree, the steady satisfactory progress of the
Company; and as them amounts do not Melo& any assurances derived front other than purely home sources,
with tbe steeption Move mentioned in 1865, the Maxine= may be regarded as tbe results entirely of the Com-
pany's ordinary operations, and be taken as a correct test of its primrose and development as one of the great
provident Institutions of the country. Lame as these sums Ire, they amid have been greatly increased bad the
Company entertained amend-elan investments in commotion with which Life Amtirances are frequently offered
as an inducement; hut the Directors have not entered on that kind of business, and they are therefore entitled
to designate their transieteins as first:elass, purely sod entirely.
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Bta the Directed bete secured large vaCeessiOns to the Company'. business during the Quinquennial Period
trous.ather than ordinary 'puttee.

In 1854 the Iltrisitia Life Assurencie Company, an riffles of high respectability and good petition lo London,
feeling that their endessoure to extended their business wen, not attend with so much succeed. as they ant °inbred,
reeolrid to tran.fer their beanies@ to on Office allows position, influence, and standing would ei.itir • for their
Policyholders • reliable prospect of continued advantaged for the future from a protneroua and increasing busine,
and an overture w•• nude to the STANDARD to undertake the responiihility. The negotiation for o rr.n ftr of
the hennas., was conducted with the utmost inution, an agreement was carried out, and the r...nite which have
hitherto developed themselves in the routee of the billions so acquired have been most satisfactory. The detail.
have already been oommunicated to the Proprietors.
In 18115 another Canso( about the some standing as the MIXIIV• Corn rimy in point of huainem end resource.
the Vierrobi• Life Assurance Company of London, renal...it, for very similar reasons, to transfer ii•
to an older and more advancing Institution, and the STANDARD was again &elected as affording the realutaite
qualification for the Important trust.
Thio Important acquisition was also reported to the Proprietors on • former eamesiott.
Both Institutions hive brought valuable connections to the Company throughout the kingdom, more
asps:hilly in England, and In that respect also • great advantage has been gained by them important acquisitions.
But the most important result of the period ba• /et to be mentioned, vis. The junction of the COLORIAL
Ufe Assurance Company with the STANDARD. It is quite unnecessary again to enter on the reasons winch led to
that important step ; they have all been fully detailed in filleted stritementi circulated amine the parties in,
terieted, and were fully reported at the late Annual General Meeting of the Company; but the Director. may be
allowed onus again to congratulate the Proprietors on this occasion on the aneeessful completion of that desirable
and important antrissmation. Every day shows how emential it was that three two Companies, so intimately
connected from ant to last, should not have beim allowed to separate and become antagonistic. At home and
abroad, Agents, Local Bowls, and in Men) Instances the public prime, have congratulated the Company on the
junction, end not one word of complaint from Policyholders or Shareholders in either Company has marred the
final completion of the union now hsrmonioudy carried out.
Them, then, are the total results of the period, and the Directors can same their Co•Propristore that the
transfer negotiations, which have been encoembilly carried out, as now reported, have cost them no small amount
of trouble and anxiety to retire their rife, thorough, and satisfactory completion.
The Illitintra and VICTORIA Offices hsving been dissolved, the chief edvantagi which the STANDARD
Company will derive from the union, independently of their canting busin ea, will be from the acquisition of new
connections ; and the Directors are hippy to state that they are now receiving the support, and reaping the
benefit, of these oceneetions in • marked degree. In the oh--I.ontai. Company, on the other hand, a large and
profitable field of new business has been opened up to the STANDARD, while • connection has been sectored
through them which is influential not only abroad but at home, the supporters of the CoLost at. Company in the
Coloniea having come forward in the most acceptable and reedy manner to interest their friends and *ones-
pondents in this country in the STAND•RD Company.
The Rivas= of the STASDARD COMpetly was in 1846