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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2615, 5 July 1871, Page 4

Government Notices. NEW Z '.LAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNCUIES. 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, 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 which has endured for five 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 tho 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. jyy| r. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. ri'W.NDERS are invited by the Colonial X 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 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. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Acting Engineer in Chief. Public Works Office, Wellington, May 19, 1871. 2 LANDS RtGISTRY OFFICE, DUNEDIN LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES. ITT HE REAS the persons named at foot W hereof have each respectively fur himself made application to have* the land set forth and described before his name brought under the operation of “ the Laud Transfer Act, 1870 ” Notice is her j'jy given that unless caveat be lodged with the District Land Registrar of the District of Otago by some person haviug estate or interest in the said lands, on or before the date herein below for each case specified, the said pieces of land will be brought under the operation of the said Act as by law directed. Diagrams delineating these parcels of land may be inspected at this office. James Macandrew, of Upper Harbour District, Esq., Arthur John Bums, of Dunedin, Esq., and Arthur William Morris, of Dunedin, Esq., Sections 14, 15, Block VI., To wn of Dunedin. Also Section 8, Block VI, Town of Dunedin. Also Sections 50, 51, and 399 Town of Port Chalmers. Caveat iu each case must be lodged on or before the 24th day of Jply, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. Dated this 4th day of July, 1871, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin. D. F. MAIN, District Land Registrar of the District of Otago. Veterinary Surgeons. EXTRAORDINARY NEWS. MR SLEBLNG ER, Veterinary Surgeon, Hope street, Dunedin, announces to his Friends and the Public, his intent! >n, from this date, of reducing his charges for ADVICE and MEDICINE to ONE-HALF of the former rate, so as to enable owners of the lowest-priced Animals to have them properly attended to. Mr 8. takes this opportunity of thanking the public for their liberal support during the past tight years, and trusts by very mod rate charges to secure a still further increase of their patronage. The purest Horse and Cattle Medicine supplied at lower prices than any chemist and druggist’s house in Dunedin. Slesinger’s Blister Ointment, superior to James’s, Is 6d a pot only ! Slesinger’s superior Embrocation for Sprains, Rheumatics, and Saddle Galls, from 2s fid a bottle.

Also, Slesiriger’s superior Condition Powders, reduced to half-price Nightmen. WILLIAM GREENWOOD, Nightman. Address Boxes: Queen’s Anus Hotel, Union Hotel, Cragiebum Hotel, Provincial Hotel, Glasgow Arms Hotel, Royal George Hotel, York Hotel, London Tavern, Empire Hotel, Old Identity Hotel, Sussex Hotel, Oddfellows’ Arms Hotel, Robert Burns Hotel, Hibernian Hotel. Rubbish taken away on the shortest notice. N.6.—Chimney sweeping done. William Greenwood’s name alone or. the boxe*