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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2579, 24 May 1871, Page 4

Government Notices. V. 11. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TENDER? are invited by the Colonial Government for the Construction of about ten miles of the OTAGO SOUTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY, being the Clutba Contract, and extending northwards from the River CJutha. Drawings and specifications may bo seen on and after Monday, 10th July, ot the office of W. N. Blair, Esq., Resident Engineer, Dunedin, where Tenders will bo received until noon of Monday, the 7th August. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, OHM BLACKETT. Acting Engineer in Chief. Public Works Office, Wellington, May 19, 1871. 2 NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUI! lES. THE Government Laving been empowered by special Acts of the Legislature to enter into contracts for Insurances on Live*, 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 arc 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. 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 he valid. 5. Surrender values are granted on the whole or any part of a contract which has endured for five years. 6. Re-idenco is permitted in any part of the Australasian Colonies or Europe, and premiums may always bo 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 bo obtained on application to any Money Order Office or Government Schoolmaster, or to CECIL Y. BISS, Sub-Commissioner, Oliices, (next Post Office), Central Hall Provincial Buildings, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner. Itfedlcal. JJ K DE JONGH’S (Knight of the Order of Leopold of Belgium) LIGHT-BROWN COD LIVER OIL, Unequalled for Purity, Palatablcness, and Efficacy ; Prescribed by the most eminent Medical Men as the safest, speediest, and most effectual remedy for CONSUMPTION. DISEASES OF THE CHEST, AND DEBILITY. “ I consider Dr De Jongh’s Light Brown Cod Liver Oil to be very pure Oil, not likely to create disgust, and a therapeutic agent of Seat value.— Sir Henry Marsh, Bart., .D., Physician in Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland. “ In all cases I have found Dr Do Jongh’s Cod Liver Oil possessing the same set of properties, among which the presence of cholaic compounds, and of iodine in a state of organic combination, are the most remarkable.”—Dr Letheby, Medical Officer of Health to the City of London, “I.find Dr De Jongh’s Light Brown Cod Liver Oil to be much more efficacious than other varieties of the same medicine.”— Edwin Canton, Esq,, Surgeon to Charingcross Hospital. Sole Consignees— ANSAR, HARFORD, & CO., 27, STRAND, LONDON. W.C. Caution. —Beware of mercenary attempts substitute other kinds. Sold only in capsuled Imperial Half-pints, Pints, and Quarts, by all respectable Chemistsand Druggists at Home and abroad. SINGLETON’S SARSAPARILLA,— Manufactured from the formula of the celebrated Dr Pereira, M.D., F.R.C.S., L.A.C., Lecturer on Chemistry and Therapeutics at the London Hospitals,—is the best preparation of the real Jamaica root ever offered to the public. It is warranted free from mercurial or other deleterious ingredients, combines the agreeable flavor of a cordial with the active principles of the famous Red Jamaica Sarsaparilla, and is highly recommended for its curative and restorativ* properties by the most eminent medical men, SINGLETON’S SARSAPARILLA May bo obtained from all druggists, merchants, and storekeepers, throughout the world. rjMlE _ WAY : TO OBTAIN SOUND JL HEALTH. Ist.—Cleanse the Stomach from all offensive accumulations, which so usually produce functional derangement vitiating the ood. 2nd.—Purify the blood from all acrid humors, and you will remove the causes of the greatest mass of the diseases which afflict so many of the human family. A REMEDY, proved by thirty years’ experience, capable of effecting such a desirable and important purpose, is still before the public in WHELPTON’S VEGETABLE PURIFYING PILLS. Prepared and sold wholesale and retail in boxes, price 7£d, Is 1.(.d, and 2s 9d each, by G. Whelpton and Son, 3, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London and may be had of all Chemists an Medecine Vendors in the Colony,