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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2637, 31 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 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 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. 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 India, 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 Gunmakers and Dealers in Gunpowder. FREDERICK JOYCE & CO., Patentees and Manufacturers, 57 Upper Thames street, London, Contractors to Her Majesty’s War Department. PRIZE MEDALS at Stettin, Cologne and Dublin, 1865 ; Vienna, 1866 ; Paris, 1867 ; For first-class Sawing, Planing, and other Wood-working Machinery. CHARLES POWIS & CO., Cyclops Works, Millwall Pier, London, Contract for the supply of Steam Engines Boilers, and complete sets of Wood-working Maphinery, and Contractors’ Plant of every description, and will furnish prices and drawings, or their illustrated catalogue, on application to their city office, 51 Gracechurch street, London. Combined Mortising, Tenoning, and Boring Machine; price. L2l. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Agents in the Colonies.

Excelsior family sewing and EMBROIDERY MACHINE, Is easy to operate, simple to leam, quiet in action, and not liable to derangement. It will tack, hem, fell, gather, cord, quilt, braid, and embroider; sew trom two ordinary reels ; and the seam, if out a{ every THE NEW STAR PATENT IMPROVED DOUBLE-ACTION ARM MACHINE, For Bootmakers and Manufacturers generally. Complete, LlO lOg. WHITE & MANN, Manufactory : Dipping Works, Ipswich. Agents in all the Colonies. D AM S’ NEW PATENT DOUBLE ACTION REVOLVER. SIX-SHOT REGULATION BORE, on 54 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 391, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. COCKER BROTHERS, (Successors to Samuel Cocker and Son) Sheffield, England, Established 1752. Manufacturers of Steel, Files, Wire, Tools, Reaping-Knives, Saws, Scythes and Sickles, Steel Wire Ropes, Crinoline Steel, and Springs, &c.. GENERAL MERCHANTS. Awarded for the Superior Quality of their Steel, Files, Wire, Tools, &e. inch, will not rip. Price L 6 6s. IMPROVED JOHN ADAMS, Managing Director. Also

OAKEY'S SILVERSMITH’S SOAR (Non-Mercurial,) For Cleansing and Polishing Silver, ElectroPlate, Plate Glass, Marble, &c. Tablets 6d To be had everywhere. OAKEY & SON’S Emery and Black Lead. Mills, 2, Blackfriars road, Loudon, England. Agents in all the Colonies,