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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2583, 29 May 1871, Page 4

Government Notices. V, E, NEW ZEALAND rN I)BUS are invite Iby the COLON LL GOVERNMENL' for the construction of SECTIONS No. 2 and 3 of the OTAGO SOUTHERN TRUNK RAfLWAY. extending from CAVERSH AM. ta.the CHAIN HILLS, including the LOOK-OUT POINT TUNNEL Drawings and Specifications may be seen m and after Monday the 24th April, a* t ie 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 necessan y accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Acting Engineer-in-Chief. Dunedin, 30th March, 1871. 1 NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUIIIES. 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, ac« cording to the intervals of payment, are allowed beyond the due dates; and should the assured die during there 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. Re idenoo 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 receive! (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, Commiss : oner. Manufacturers. BRYANT AND MAY'S P ATENT SAFETY MATCHEj Light only en the Box. BRYANT AND MAY’S PATENT SAFETY MATCHES Advantages j Protection from Disease to those employed in the Manufacture. Protection from Fire. B RYANT AND MAY WHITECHAPEL ROADj LONDON. Works r -Bow Common, London. W ATTS’S BRANDISH’S ALKALINE Compound of SARSAPARILLA, or general debility, indigestion, scrofulous affections, chronic rheumatism, &c., as prepared by the la be G. F, WATT S, and sold by Barclay & Son, 95 Farringdon street, and all Chemists and Druggists. Sole Agents: (CEMPTHORNE, PROSSER, AND CO. Dunedin. ADAMS NEW PATENT IMPROVED DOUBLE ACTION REVOLVER. SIX-SHOT REGULATION BORE, or 54 GUAGE. This revolver surpasses all others in the Ease and Rapidity with which it can be loaded and tired, and in Cheapness, Simplicity, Lightness, and Strength Warranted to be of the finest London Manufacture. Sole Manufacturers by Steam Machinery. ADAMS’ PATENT SMALL ARMS COMPANY (Limited), 391, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. JOHN ADAMS, Managing Director. The Company also manufactures guns, rifles (including breech-loading needle-rifles for rook shooting, and Snider breech-loading rifles), And Sporting Appurtenances of all kinds. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Price lists, with particulars, can be obtained on application.