National Provincial Life Assurance Society: The second annual general meeting of the proprietors and assured members of this society was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street. The chair was taken at 1 o’clock by John Poole Esq: … [financial statement, election of officers etc, towards the end of the meeting.] … Mr. L.T. King said the report which had been laid before the meeting was such as to require that they should ask themselves, to whom they were indebted for such great success? (hear, hear) Though many modern societies had attained great prosperity, their own success had been excelled by none, and equalled by few, and they might depend upon it that it could not have been secured without the most untiring zeal and energy. (Cheers) he felt that it was impossible for them to adequately to regard the directors by any amount which they might vote to them, but as it was incumbent upon them to take some means of manifesting their sense of such services, he would vote that they should be assigned to the moderate sum of £750 (Cheers). Mr Pinsent seconded the motion:
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