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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2609, 28 June 1871, Page 4

Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUL. lES.. THE Government having been empowered by special Acts of the Legislature to enter into contracts for Insurances, on Live?, and for the grants of Annuities and Endow* meats, are now prepared to execute any of tho usual contracts dependent upon the con* tingcncies 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 beyoud 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 be valid. 5. Surrender values are granted on the whole or any part of a contract wl>ich has endured for live years. 6. Residence 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. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TENDERS are invited by the Colonial Government for the Construction of about teii miles of the OTAGO SOUTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY, being the Clutha Contract, and extending, northwards from the River Clutha. Drawings and specifications may be 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 V. E. TENDERS are invited for the Erection pf a Post Office and J elegraph Station at Tokomairiro in the Province of Otago. General conditions, specifications, and drawings may be seen at tho offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington ; at the Post Office, Dunediu ; and at the Post Office, Tokomairiro. . Tenders will be received by the undersigned up to noon on the 15th day of July next. . The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. (Signed) W. H. CLAYTON, Colonial Architect V. R. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS, TENDERS are invited by the Colonial Government for the construction of TiiN MALLEABLE IRON GIRDERS, 33 feet six inches long, for the OTAGO SOUTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY. Drawings and Specifications to be seen at this Office, where Tenders will be received until noon of Friday, the 30th inst. The lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted. By command, W. N. BLAIR, District Engineer. Public Works Office, Dunedin, I2th June, 1871. 1 Manufacturers. A DAMS’ NEW PATENT IMPROVED DOUBLE ACTION REVOLVER. SIX-SHOT REGULATION BORE, oa 64 GUAGE. This revolver surpasses all others in the Ease and Rapidity with which it can be loaded and fired, 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; Nightmen. WILLIAM GREENWOOD, Nightma Address Boxes : Queen’s Arms Hot Union Hotel, Cragiebum Hotel, Provinc Hotel, Glasgow Arms Hotel, Royal Geot Hotel, York Hotel, London Tavern, Empi Hotel, Old Identity Hotel, Sussex Hot Oddfellows’ Arms Hotel, Robert But Hotel, Hibernian Hotel Rubbish tak away on the shortest notice. N.B.—Chi rey sweeping done. William Greerwooi nam« alone or the boxe*