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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2589, 5 June 1871, Page 4

Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNDIIIES. THE Government bavin# been empowered by special Acts of tbe Legislature to enter into contracts for Insurances on Lives, and for tbe 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 tbe Working Classes : 1. The tables of Premiums in all tbe 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. Fourteenor twenty-one days of grace, according to the intervals of payment, arc allowed beyond the due dates; and should the assured die during these periods, tbe 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. Retidenoe 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 a fe 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 Pot Office), Central Hall Provincial Buildings, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner. Public Notices. CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. WPERCIVAL respectfully cautions • the Public against buying their Spectacles from incompetent persons, who do not understand the science .of Optics, for by so doing they injure their vision. To remedy this, buy of the maker, W. Percival, Practical Optician and Spectacle Maker. Spectacles properly ground and adapted to suit impaired and defective visions. His pure Brazilian pebbles and tinted spectacles are highly recommended for strengthening weak sights. GEORGE STREET, DUNEDIN. NOTICE. STE \DM AN’S COACH leaves the “G K (DI RON HOTEL, ’’ Princes-street, every morning, at half-past eight, for WEST TAIERI And from snne place, at halfpast four every evening for EAST TAIERI and Reliance Hotel, Otakia. J. STEADMAN, Junction Hotel, East Taieri. TO GOAL CONSUMERS OF OTAGO. JOHN FINDLAY has on hand, and continually arriving shipments of the hert Newcastle Coal. Also a Shipment of good Scotch coal just lately arrived. THE TRADE and SHIPPING SUPPLIED in any quantity at lowest current rates. Colonial Coal. Firewood, cut and uncut, always on hand. OTAGO COAL DEPOT, OCTAGON. Manufacturers. JOYCE’S SPORTING AMMUNITION Established 1820. FREDERICK JOYCE & CO. Invite the attention of Sportsmen to the fol& lowing Ammunition, of the best quality, now in general use throughout England Lidia, and the Colonies. Joyce’s Treble Waterproof Central Fire Percussion Caps, Chemically-prepared Cloth and Felt Gun Wadding, Cartridge Cases of superior quality for Breech-loading Guns, and Wire Cartridges for killing Game at long distances, And every description of Sporting Ammunition. Sold by all Gunraakcrs and Dealers in Gunpowder. FRED ERICK JO YCE & CO., Patentees and Manufacturers, 57 Upper Thames street, London, Contractors to Her Majesty’s War Department. RICE FLOUR IS NOT CORN FLOUR. ’caution. Brown & pols on were the first to adopt the name Corn Flour, and they are greatly interested in maintaining its reputation, which is liable to be discredited by the unwarrantable appropriation of the name to articles of a different character, prepared as in one prominent instance, from Rice. The Public, it is hoped, will discriminate between articles bearing a false name and BROWN & POLSON’S CORN FLOUR, Which is prepared solely from Maize or India Corn. WATTS’S BRANDISH’S ALKALINE Compound of SARSAPARILLA, or general debility, indigestion, scrofulous affections, chronic rheumatism, &c., as prepared by the late G. F. WATT S, and sold by Barclay & Son, 95 Farringdon street, and all Chemists and Druggists. Sole Agents: KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER, AND CO. Dunedin.