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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2591, 7 June 1871, Page 3

Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUIIIES. THE Government having been empowered by special Acts of the Legislature to enter into contracts for Insurances ©n Lives, and for the grants of Annuities and Endowments, are now prepared to execute any of the usual contracts dependent upon the con 4 tingencies of human life. The following advantages are presented as deserving of Public attention, and especially of the W Wking 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 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. Re-idence 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. » V. R. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TENDERS are invited by the Colonial Government for the Construction of about ten miles of the OTAGO SOUTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY, being the Clutha Contract, and extending northwards from the River Clutha. Drawings and specifications may he seen on and after Monday, 10th July, ot the office of W. N. Blair, Esq., Resident Engineer, Dunedin, where Tenders will be received until noon of Monday, the 7th August, The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Bycommand, JOHN BLACKETT, Acting Engineer in Chief. Public Works Office, Wellington, May 19, 1871. 2 Shipping, HARBOUR STEAM COMPANY AGENTS. MAORI for TIMARU, AKAROA, and LYTTELTON, on Friday, 9th inst. Shipping Orders issued and cargo received till 2p.m. Passengers at 7 p.m. Beautiful star, bluff, Invercargill, and RIVERTON, on Satuvßay, 10th inst. Taranaki, for all northern PORTS, about Friday, 23rd inst. PRETTY JANE, for BLUFF, on Saturday, 10th inst. Offices, Harbour Chambers. Public Notices. IN the ESTATE OF SCOTT & JOSLING. TENDERS will he received up till 4 o’clock on Friday, the 9th inst., for the purchase of the hook debts due to the above estate. Tenders to he lodged at the office of the undersigned, where full particulars may be obtained. RICHARD H. LEARY, Accountant, High-street, Agent for the Trustees. JUST ARRIVED PER MAIL. Gilmore's All Round the World*. Morley’s Clement Marot. Buchanan’s Laud of Lome. Readc’s Put yourself in his place. Earl’s English Premiers. Hinton on Health. Brougham’s Autobiography. Hamilton’s Moses, Missionary of the Apodolic School. Arnold’s Friendship’s Garland. A large Invoice of New' Books, per Roslyn Castle, now lauding, RfilTH AND WILKIE, Publications. WILL be published to-morrow (Saturday) a SERMON on “ THE PERPETUAL OBLIGATION OF THE SABBATH,” preached on Sunday, May 2S, by the Rev. J. Smoult Smalley. Price CJ. To be bad at all the Booksellers. Hairdressers F B E I S S E L , Hairdresser and Perfumer, By Appointment to H.R.H. the Dukt ot Edinburgh, and His Excellency the Governor and Volunteers, Warm, Cold, and Shower Baths always ready. Ladies’ Room Up-stairs. Opposite the Bank of New South Wales, PRINCES STREET