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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2653, 18 August 1871, Page 3

Advertisements received too late for Classification. rp H E ANNUAL SOIREE ■ in connection with the KNOX YOUNG MEN’S SOCIETY, Will be held in the Classroom of the Church On TUESDAY, the 22nd inst., The Rev. D. M. STUART in the Chair. Tea on the table at half past Six. Tickets can be obtained from Messrs. Gunn and Ross, Eeitb and Wilkie, and Hudson, Pnnces-street, Mr Baird, George-street, and from members of the Committee. By Order, W. BEGG, Hon. Sec. Notice is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned DAVID BACON and HENRICH WILHELM ELIAS MEYER, as Coal Merchants, Livery Stable Keepers, and Express Proprietors, at Dunedin, under the style or Firm of “Bacon and Meyers,” was on the eighth day of August instant, dissolved by mutual consent. All debts duo and owing to or by the late Firm will be received and paid by the said David Bacon. As witness our hands this eighteenth day of August, 1871. DAVID BACON, H. W. E. MEYER. Witness, D’Arcy Haggitt, Solicitor, Dunedin. DAVID BACON having succeeded to the business lately carried on by Messrs. Bacon and Meyers, respectfully requests a continuance of the support so liberally bestowed on the late Firm. DAVID BACON. REV. JAMES MAXWELL, from Sydney, will preach in the Congregational Church, Port Chalmers, on Sunday next, morning and evening. SATURDAY, 19th AUGUST. At 12 o’clock. gA L E BY AUCTION OF MISS ETTY’S FURNITURE. Ac. London Street. Catalogues at the Rooms of M’L AN DRESS, HEPBURN, and Co. TO-MORROW, SATURDAY, At 11 o’clock. DM. SPED DING will Sell by Auction . at his Rooms, Princes street, at eleven o’clock, to-morrow. A quantity of furniture and sundries, consisting of iron and wood bedsteads, bedAim, tables, chairs, wasbstauda, dressingtables. crockery, &c,, Ac. ; also 25 painted iron buckets, and 20 bags flock. JUST ARRIVED—Ex Gothenburg A Splendid sample of Stewarts Island Oysters, the finest this season, also, a consignment of Southland wild rabbits, in splendid condition, 2s 6d per pair. To be had at JE WITTS Fishmonger and Poulterer, Princes-strees, opposite Provincial Buildings. TENDERS WANTED for Brick Additions to Queen’s Arms Hotel, Queenstown, foe A. Eichardt, Esq. Plans, &c., to be seen, and Tenders received at the office of Mrßurwell, Architect, there, til! Friday, Ist September; and at my office here. DAVID ROSS, Architect, Ac., Princes street. WANTED a good Paperhanger. Apply on Saturday evening to Beck Bros, painters, Ac. Maitland-street. WANTED all the Dunedin Cabinet makers to meet in the HibernUn Hotel on Monday, 21st inst, at 8 p.m. Matters of import.mcc iu connection with the trade to bo submitted. WANTED Tenders for building a Chimney, fixing Grate,, and laying Drain Pipes. For particulars apply to J. Hughes, R.M. Court, Dunedin, WANTED a Good Cook, and a Kitchen maid. Apply at the Athenaeum Private Hotel, Octagon. Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUI: lES. THE Government having been empowered by special Acts of tlic Legislature to enter into contracts for Insurances on Live*, and for the grants of Annuities and Endowments, arc now prepared to execute any )f 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 arc 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-rne days of grace, according to the intervals of payment, are allowed beyond the due dates; aud should the assured die during these periods, the policy will still be valid. 5. Surrender values are granted on the w hole 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.