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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2567, 10 May 1871, Page 4

Government Notices.' NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES. 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 loss than in any other office in New Zealand. 2. All transactions, and Powers of Attorney and other documents, are free ef 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. 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 Georye street). EXTRAORDINARY NEWS. MR SLESINGER, Veterinary Surgeon, Hope street, Dunedin, announces to his Friends and the Public, his intention, from this date, of reducing his charges for ADVICE and MEDICINE to ONE-MALE of the former rate, so as to enable owners of the lowest-priced Animals to have them properly attended to. MrS. takes this opportunity of thanking the public for their liberal support during the past eight years, and trusts by very moderate charges to secure a still further increase of their patronage. The purest Horse and Cattle Medicine supplied at lower prices than any chemist and druggist’s hou?e in Dunedin. Slesinger’s Blister Ointment, superior to James’s, 1s 6d a pot only ! Slesinger’s superior Embrocation for Sprains, Rheumatics, and Saddle Galls, from 2s 6d a bottle. Also, Slesinger’s superior Condition Powders, reduced to half-price ! ! Publications and Literature. QASSELL’S TECHNICAL EDUCATOR. „ ILLUSTRATED HISTORY of THE WAR b.tween France and Germany. „ HOUSEHOLD GUIDE in vols. Dean Alford’s Lessons on the War, War Correspondence of Daily News ; Napoleon Fallen, by Buchanan ; Raskin’s Selections ; Hinden’s Life Studies, &c., &c., AT REITH & WILKIE’S, Princes street, Dunedin. JUST PUBLISHED, BY C . BEG G , A SELECT CATALOGUE of Vocal and Instrumental Music. Free o» application. LONDON PIANOFORTE AND MUSIC SALOON, Princes street. THE YOUNG LADIES JOURNAL Contains suitable Reading for families Elegant Designs in all kinds of useful and ornamental Needlework, accompanied by simple and complete directions. To be had of all Booksellers. English and European news —The Mail, a paper containing tho news, the principal leaders, a well-digested Summary and all interesting matter from The Times. The newspaper hitherto known as The Eveening Mail, having become the property of the proprietors of The Times, is now published twice a week, under the title of The Mail, at the price of threepence per copy as heretofore. The days of publication will be Tuesday and Friday, and each paper will contain the news and all matters of interest aypearing in the three previous numbers of The Times, which will thus be rendered available, in a cheap and convenient form, for. persons residing abroad or in the Colonies. Subscribers can obtain The Mail through Newspapers Agents, or may have it from the Publisher on pre-payment, at Printing-House Square, London.