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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2571, 15 May 1871, Page 4

Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUI i lES. 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 arc 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. Fourteenor 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 live years. 6. Residence is permitted in any part of the Australasian Colonics 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 1.2,000, 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 afforuing the best security to the Assured. The fullest information can bo. obtained on application to any Money Order Office or Government Schoolmaster, or to CECIL Y. BISS, Sub-Commissioner, Offices, (next Pod Office). Central Hall Provincial Buildings, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner. V. r>. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TENDERS are invite d by the COLONIAL GOVERNMENT for the construction of SECTIONS No. 2 and 3 of the OTAGO SOUTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY, ex tending from CAVERSHAM to the CHAIN HILLS, including the LOOK-OUT POIN'i TUNNEL. Drawings and Sped death ns 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 oi: Wednesday, the 31st May. The lowest or any tender not necessa i accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Acting Enginccr-in-Chief. Dunedin, 30th March, 1871. ■WatcfamaJrers. Established 1858. vYATCHES, CLOCKS, AND JEWEL LERY. AB E A V E K , WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, Princes Street, Nearly opposite the Bank o Otago, A. B. begs to notify to the inhabitants ol Dunedin and the Province generally, that being in the constant receipt of First-class Gold and Silver Watches, Imported direct from the Manufactures, Expressly Made to Order. A^o, 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 N H ISL 0 P 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. Manufacturers, S. NEWALL & CO. Sole Patentees of UNTWISTED WIRE ROPE, For Ships’ Standing Rigging, NEWALL & Co.’s WIRE RIGGING one-half the weight, onc-sixth the bulk, d one-half the price of hemp rigging, ship ■ ship. It is lighter and stronger than any icr wire rope in the market, and is entirely ichine made. A staff of riggers always idy for work at home or abroad. Their PATENT COPPER WIRE CORD Is also extensively used for window-sash lines, hot-honsea, lightning conductors, picture cord, clock cord, tent ropes, clothes dines, and many other purposes for which hempen rope had previously been used. The exquisite flower baskets in the Crystal Palace are hung with Newall and Co.’s patent Cord. NEWALL l ICo’s PATENT WIRE, ’strand