Towyn-on-Sea and Merioneth County Times

THE CORBETT ESTATE, TOWYN ON-SEA ON THE CARDIGAN BAY COAST, NORTH WALES. '—- JM m BUILDING LAND FOR SALE OR TO BE. LET ON LONG BUILDING LEASES. WELL PLANNED AND LAID OUT. FINEST BEACH FOR BATHING. MOST HEALTHY DISTRICT. FINE ROADS. SEWERED ON THE MOST SANITARY PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTION. For Particulars, apply H. HALL, Estate Offices, Impney, Droitwich; or to Messrs. R. GILLART AND SONS, Towyn, Merioneth. PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. CHIEF OFFICE HOLBORN BARS, LONDON. SUMMARY OF THE REPORT PRESENTED AT THE FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING, HELD ON 3RD MARCH. 1904. ORDINARY BRANCH.-The numberof Policies issued during the year was 74,358, assuring the sum of £ 7,396,050, and producing a New Annual Premium Income of £ 396,780. The Premiums received during the year were ;E3,814,856, being an increase of £163,398 over the year 1902. The Claims of the year amounted to £ 1,523,686. The number of Deaths was 6,611, and 5 685 Endow- ment Assurances matured. The number of Policies in force at the end of the year was 712.097. INDUSTRIAL BRANCH.—The Premiums re- ceived during the year were £ 5,846 554, being an increase of £155,647. The Claims of the year amounted io £ 2,100,824. The number of Deaths was 210,839, and 3,246 Endowment Assurances matured. The number of Free Policies granted during the year to those Policy-holders of five ye:lJ s' standing who desired to discontinue their payments was 95,938, the number in force being 912,984. The number of Free Policies which became Claims during the year was 19,788. The total number of Policies in force at the end of the year was 15,200,390; their average duration exceeds ten and a quarter years. The Assets of t.he Company, in both branches, as shown in the Balance Sheet, are £51,271,377, being an increase of £4,OÓ2,176 over those of 1902. The Staff Piovident Fund, which was founded in 1893 for the benefit of the outdoor staff, shows a satisfactory increase for the year, the total amount standing to the ciedit of the Fund being £ 127,077. GENERAL BALANCE SHEET OF THE PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, BEING THE SUMMARY OF BOTH BRANCHES, ON THE 31sT DECEMBER, 1903. LIABILITIES. £ s. d ASSETS £ s d ■" 1,000,000 0 0 British Government securities 3 347,873 8 10 Reserve Funds 2,000,000 0 0 Indian and Colonial Government Assurance Funds 48,089.275 12 8 securities 4 948 183 17 11 Claims under life policies admitted 128,102 2 7 Railway and other debentures and debenture stocks 3,998,845 1 3 Loans on County 0 jnncils, Muni- cipal and other rate3 11,685,354 18 4 Freehold grounds rents and Scotch fen duties 3,736,819 13 3 Freehold and leasehold property 2,993,758 2 2 Mortgages on property within the United Kingdom 6,468,014 13 1 Railway, Gas, and Water stocks. 6,882,479 5 4 Suez Canal shares 166,414 7 10 Telegraph and other shares 88,889 15 3 Metropolitan Consolidated stock, and City of London bonds 272,062 4 7 Bank of England stock 200,559 18 6 Colonial and Foreign Corporation stocks 938,374 18 4 Foreign Government securities 1,349,488 10 9 Reversions and Life Interests 1,080,425 6 2 Loans on the Company's Policies 1,606,633 12 1 Heut charges 296,445 14 10 Outstanding premiums and agents' balances. 448,C80 11 4 Outstanding interest and rents 416,658 15 10 Cash-In hands of superintendents 35,972 1 6 Ditto-On current accounts, and inhand 256,042 18 1 £51,217,377 15 3 £51,217,377 15 3 THOS. C. DEWEY, 1 Joint General FREDERICK SCHOOLING Actuary. WILLIAM HUGHES,) Managers. D. W. STABLE, Secretary. EDGAR HORNE, Chairman. HENRY HAfiBBM,) n. t PERCY T. RE ID, j Du"ectore- We have examined the Cash transactions (receipts and payments) affecting the acccounts of the Assets and Investments for the year ended December 31st, 1903, and we find the same in good order and properly vouched. We have also examined the Deeds and Securities, Certificates, &c., lepresenting the Assets and Investments set out in the .bove account, and we certify that they were in possession and safe custody as on December 31st, 1903 DELOUIE, DEVER, GRIFFITHS & Co., CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS. 17th February, 1904. Prospectus or any further information can be obtained from the following: District Superintendent, T. H. Edwards, 9, Queen's terrace, Aberystwyth; Assistant Superintendents, T. Leonard, 9, Cadwgan place, Aberayron, and J. Williams, 2, Green- fields, Machynlleth, or any of the staff of 27 agents in the district. CHAS. II. YOUNG THSTUDIOS, 1 TOWYN & ABERDOVEY. Work at this Establishment will be found equal to that produced by the best London Artists. Photographic and Art'sts* Materials. Amateurs supplied at List Prices. DARK ROOM. CIRCULATING LIBRARY Of the Newest Books in connection with Mudie's. TO BUILDERS AND ROAD CONTRACTORS TONFANAU GRANITE QUARRY, TOWYN. GuOD ROUGH • BUILDING STONE AND ROAD MATERIAL Can be supplied from this Quarry at 2s. Od. Per Ton. Delivered into trucks at Tonfanau Wharf on Cambrian Railway. Railway Carriage to Towyn Is. per ton. ALSO, ROAD MACADAM, S1FTINGS, SHOD- DIES, QUOINS, LINTELS, AND ALL KINDS OF DRESSED STONE Apply to the Local Manager, MR. JONATHAN PARRY, TONFNNAU QUARRY TOWYN. SEEDS. GARDEN. SEEDS. A. J. HARVEY No. 1, CHURCH STREET, TOWYN. AGENT FOR "ONE AND ALL" SEEDS AND MANURES. GARDENS LAID OUT AND KEPT IN ORDER BY CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE. ALL BEQUISITES SUPPLIED. J TO VISITORS. j INFORMATION RESPECTING APARTMENTS BUSINESS ADDRESSES, TRIPS TO PLACES ¡ OF INTEREST IN THE DISTRICT, Ac., may be obtained from our LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE. Address- 27, IDRIS VILLAS, TOWYN (ADJOINING RAILWAY STATION). ¡ A PARTMENTS.—To all having Apartments to let. Do not lose pounds by having you Apartments empty when for Is (or three weeks, 2s) you can have a thirty-word ADVERTISEMENT in six London Suburban newspapers, circulating in districts which each year send hundreds of London visitors to Towyn-on-Sea and District. Names of papers, Leyton, Leytanstone, West Ham, Wanstead, Woodford, and Forest Gate, and Manor Park and IIford Express and Independent,—Address, Publisher Independent Office, Leytonstone, London, N,E. ROBERT LEWIS, BILLPOSTER, GWRIL HOUSE, DOLGELLEY GOOD POSTING STATIONS CONTRACTS TAKEN. THE ADVENTURES OF CARADOC: A TALE OF WALES IN THE DAYS OF KING ART HUH. PRICE ONE SHILLING. WELSIIPOOL SALTER & ROWLANDS, And may be obtained at Messrs Smith & Son Railway Bookstalls. From the Liverpool Courier, September 8th Arthurian legends are always interesting, and a word of praise must be accorded Mr B C Hardy, who, in a capital little work, "The Adventures of Caradoc," published by Messrs Salter and Rowlands COUNTY TIMES, Welshpool, has, with the venne o his story in Wales, woven an attractive tale of the noble King and his trusty knights." THE ADVENTURES OF CARADOC. Is. Salter and Rowlands, Welshpool: 1899. The present little work, penned by B. C. Hardy, is one of the most charming romances we have read for a long time Caradoc, who plays a leading part in the drama, is a gallant soldier, who in time is selected as Captain of the King's Guard, and subsequently becomes one of the Knights of the Round Table. The adventures which Arthur and his knight go through are graphically told, the sad deaLa of the King making a pathetic ending,—ZVieShootin Times and B;f;¡' Knortaman. The Best and Cheapest place to get SUGAR BAGS, FLOUR BAGS, MILLINERY BAGS, CAPS, BROWNS, &<7, IS THE COUNTY TIMES OFFICE WELSHPOOL.