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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2633, 26 July 1871, Page 4

Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES. 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 be}’ond the due dates; and should the assured die during these periods, the policy will still be valid. 6. Surrender values are granted on the whole or any part of a contract which 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. 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 be seen on and after Monday, 10th July, ot the office of W. N. Blair, Esq., Resident Engineer, Dunedin, where Tenders will bo 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 Sales by Auction. SATURDAY, 29th JULY, At 2 o'clock. FREEHOLD CITY PROPERTY, by order of the Mortgagees. M‘L ANDRESS, HEPBURN, and CO., are instructed by the Mortgagees to Sell by Auction at their Rooms, Manse street, on Saturday 29th July, at 2 o’clock, IN LOTS TO SUIT PURCHASERS, All that valuable freehold property, situate between Leith-street and Atbol-place, consisting of nine substantiaby-built brick cottages, securely fenced. Also Two allotments of land adjoining the above, having a frontage to Leith-street and two having a frontage to Athol-place. Each section has a frontage of 40 feet by a depth of 75 feet. The above desirable property will be sold on the most favourable terms—the mortgagees having resolved to take one-fourth in cash, the balance in acceptances extending over 12 months, bearing interest at 8 per cent. Plans to be seen at rooms of Auctioneers. Title guaranteed. Public Notices. “ DANCING. MR. KELLY, Professor from Her Majesty’s Theatre London, would be happy to form Classes and attend Schools the ensuing quarter. First-class Testimonials. Address, Mr. Begg, Music-seller, Princesstreet. Veterinary SurgreonsEXTRAORDINARY NEWS. MR SLESINQER, Veterinary Surgeon, Hope street, Dunedin, announces to his Friends and the Public, his intention, from this date, of reducing his charges for ADVICE and MEDICINE to GNE-HALF of the former rate, so as to enable owners ol the lowest-priced Animals to have them properly attended to. Mr S. takes this opportunity of thanking the public for their liberal support during the past eight years, and trusts by very moderate 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 6d a bottle. Also, Slesinger’s superior Condition Powders, reduced to half-price Manufacturers. OAKEY'S SILVERSMITH’S SOAP (Non-Mercurial,) For Cleansing and Polishing Silver, ElectroPlate, Plate Glass, Marble, &c. Tablets 6d To be had everywhere. OAKEY & SON’S Emery and Slack Lead. Mills, 2, Blaokfriars road, London, England. Agents in all the Colonies.