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Rave cond 8 ae sels a et Be wea rem, out ons as eerie mate te ride men been sate fesTaceica tah toutes For te a coe er one folio sh oeoey one one cet, ae Teas Rrnuortan. etargtad nate In the following year there was a Sapte eng Pie ete ce ete Rea i ce creas ern os Lamina Smith, secretary at the head office, Cledrene's Father " Dielr tables ata tt Eaton tet es, cement who in 1840 submitted a proposal on his house, No. 13 Carlton House Terrace, and the furniture therein. [The life business of the Hercules Insurance Company was acquired in 1835, and in the same year the Jdivectors, as a result of an inguiry {into the salaries and duties of the staff, issued a report, pointing out to the junior clerks "the necessity improving their handwriting, which, next to accuracy and attonbranch office was opened in London and another branch opened jin Dublin during the year.
The company made satisfactory progress until 1842, when it received fa set-back. A conflagration in Liverpool towards the close of the insurance companies gen-156, of which the Scottish, dividend for the year. As a consequeree of this loss, the fire account for 1843 was far from satisfactory, but the general results of the trading were such as to permit ut of a dividend of 5 quarter century of the combat existence, Mr. Sutherland Mackenzie resigned his position of manager, owing to ill health, being succeeded by Mr. George Ramsay. In 1845, Mr. James Bavlas was appointed secretary.
Owing to unrest ip Ireland in 1848, mth Gre nad: life; business: was temporarily suspended in the dis turbed areas, and' in the following year fire transactions were atoppd throughout the island. In January, the fire business of the Hercules [Company was acquired by the Scottish Union.. From that time until. 1878, the only notable event was the election of the Duke of Hamilton to the position of Governor. In 1878, however, the amalgamation with the Scottish National Office, which had been est ablished in 1841, was brought about, Jand the title of the company was changed to Scottish Union & National. A proud moment was when; in 1879, the company took possession lof its" present head office in St, Andrew Square.
Outstanding events since the. amalgamation have been the entry, upongforeign business in 1878 and' 1880, the re-arrangement of the capital' in 1888, the Inauguration of. fan accident "department, and the acquirement of the Lancashire Yorkshire Insurance Company la 1006, the purchase in 1913 of the Maxsuat, Chang Tso-lin proposes to erect' a" monument at Shanhaikuan in honour of his men who fell in the recent Fengtien-Chihli battle and in the war two years ago. 'Marshal Feng Vu) order. ed his engineering new gate through the Peking wall and name it the Ho Ping Men—the "Gate of Peace.'
QommeenriNG on "the announce ment that Mr. Roy Chapman JAndrews is to lecture on "Where the Dino Peking I very well for Pro fessor Andrews to tell us where: the Dinosaur laid his eggs, but will ho let us into the secret of where the female of the species laid hers'
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