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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2565, 8 May 1871, Page 4

Government NotlceSi NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUI r IES. THE Government having been empowered by special Acts of the Legislature to enter into contracts for Insurances on Lives, and for the grants of Annuities and Endowments, are now prepared to execute any of the usual contracts dependent upon the contingencies of human life. The following advantages are presented as deserving of Public attention, and especially of the Working Classes 1. The tables of Premiums in all the branches are considerably less than in any other office in New Zealand. 2. All transactions, and Powers of Attorney and other documents, are free of [ Stamp Duty and all taxation. 3. No charge is made beyond the purchase money or premium, paid quarterly, half-yearly, or annually. 4, Fourteen or twenty-one days of grace, according to the intervals of payment, are allowed beyond the due dates; and should the assured die during these periods, the policy will still be valid. 5. Surrender values are granted on the whole or any part of a contract which has endured for five years. 6. Residence is permitted in any part of the Australasian Colonies or Europe, and premiums may always be paid on the due dates at the nearest Money Order Office. 7. Insurances effected for the benefit of and settled on Wife or Children are free, to the extent of L 2,000, from the claims of Creditors. 8. The Consolidated Revenue of the Colony is liable for all claims, in the event of the monies received (which are safely invested at compound interest) at any time being insufficient to meet demands, thus affording the best security to the Assured. The fullest information can be obtained on application to any Money Order Office or Government Schoolmaster, or to CECIL Y. BISS, Sub-Commissioner, Offices, (next Post Office). Central Hall Provincial Buildings, Dunedin. W, GISBORNE, Commissioner, V. R, NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TENDERS are invited by the COL ONIAL GOVERNMENT for the construction of SECTIONS No. 2 and 3 of the OTAGO SOUTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY, extending from CAVERSHAM to the CHAIN HILLS, including the LOOK-OUT POINT TUNNEL. Drawings and Specifications may be seen on and after Monday the 24th April, at the office of W. N, Blair, C.E., Dunedin, where tenders will be received until noon of Wednesday, the 31st May. The lowest or any tender not necessari’y accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Acting Engineer-in-Chief. Dunedin, 30th March, 1871. Professional. DR CRAWFORD, Consulting Surgeon and Accoucheur, may be consulted, in all the Branches of his Profession, at the Medical Laboratory, Princes street, opposite the Criterion Hotel. Dr C. has great experience of the following diseases, &c.:— Diseases peculiar to women and children Diseases of the heart and lungs Diseases of the digestive system Diseases of the nervous system Diseases of the eye Diseases of the skin Diseases of the blood. Advice gratis from 9 to 12 a.m., and from 6to 9 p.m. House : Dundas street (comer of Georpe street). Watchmakers. Established 1858. WATCHES, CLOCKS, AND JEWELLERY. BEAVER, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, Princes Street, Nearly opposite the Bank o Otago, A. B. begs to notify to the inhabitants of Dunedin and the Province generally, that being in the constant receipt of First-class Gold and SHver Watches, Imported direct from the Manufactures, Expressly Made to Order. Also, JEWELLERY, Consisting of Colonial and English Gold Guards, and Alberts, Brooches, Ear-rings, Lockets, Rings, Necklets, Pins, and a variety of other goods, &c. Field Glasses, and Nautical Instruments. To MEET THE TIMES, Prices on all Goods are considerably reduced, N.B. —Every article sold guaranteed. Watch repairing executed at Reduced Prices, Jewellery manufactured to any design. [Established 1856.] J°"H‘ SLOP LATE ARTHUR BEVERLY. CHRONOMETER, WATCH, AND CLOCK MAKER, Exactly opposite the BANK OF OTAGO Princes street, Dunedin, SHIP CHRONOMETERS Cleaned and rated by transit observations. Nautical Instruments repaired.