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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2673, 11 September 1871, Page 4

Government Notices. INLAND MAIL SERVICES. SEALED TENDERS will be received at the Chief IVst < 'dice, Limed in, till the ;t()th September instant, for the Conveyance of Mails between the nuclei mentioned places, from the Ist January to the 31st December, 1872, both days included : No. Service?. Frequency each way. Twice daily Twice weekly Once weekly Once daily Once weekly Once weekly Twice weekly Once weekly Once weekly Twice weekly 15, 16 Once weekly Once daily Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly 17. Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly 1. Dunedin and Port Chalmers (including seaborne mails) 2. Dunedin and Poitobello, via North East Harbor 3. Portoh Ho and the Kaik 4. East Taieri and West Ta'eri, via North Taieri 5. Waihol aa ml Taieri Beach 6. Taieri terry and Taieri Beach 7. BalcluthaandKaitangnta Twice weekly 8. Balclutha and Fort Molyneux via Warepa 9. Matam a and Waimahaka 10. Taieri and ffindon 11. West Taieri and Waipori 12. West Taieri and Waipori Lake 13. Lawrence, Weatherstone, and Blit'spur 14. Lawrence and Tuapeka Month Beaumont, Switzers, and Welshmans Tapanui Junction (M’Kays) and Tapanui Oamaru and Onmarama, with branch to Marewhenua 15. Waihemoand Macraes 19. Shag VaPey P. 0. and Macraes 20. Kycburn, Hyde, and Hamiltons 21. Hamiltons and Lmburn 22. Hamiltons, Linburn and Serpentine 23. Blackstone Hill and St Bathaus 24. Mount Ida and Kyeburn diggings ... ... 25. Blacks and Dry bread .. 26 * Clyde and Queenstown 27. Kawarau and Nevis 28. and Nevis Once fortnightly 29. Kawarau and Cardrona, via Rocky Point and Albert Town, with branch to Bendigo ... and Moke Creek 31*Queenstown and Skippers ... .. Once fortnightly 32. Switzers and Waikaka ... ('nee weekly 33. Arrow river and Twelve Mile Creek Once weekly Services marked thus * are terminable by the Postmaster-General on giving six weeks notice. Services at present performed by Coach may be tendered for to be performed by Mail Cai t. Each tenderer will be required to give security, as provided for on the form of tender, for a sum equal to 20 per cent, on the amount of tender, binding the tenderer to take up the Service tendered for, and execute the necessary Contract-bond in the event of his tender being accepted. Forms of tender and security, with terms and conditions of contract, may be procured at any Port-office. No tender will beeonsidered eligible unless made on the printed form provided by the Department. Tenders to be endorsed “ Tenders for Mail Service, No. ,” and addressed to the Post-master-General, Wellington, ARCH- BARR, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post-office, Dunedin September 1, 187 L Once weekly Once weekly Thrice weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly 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 Endow* ments, 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, AH 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, arc allowed beyond the due dates; ami should the assured die during these periods, the policy will still he 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 arc 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 he obtained on application to any Money Order Office or Government Schoolmaster, or to CF-CIL Y. BISS, Sub-Commissioner, Offices, (next Post Office), Central Hall Provincial Buildings, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner. Fishmongers, &c. A. L. MACDONALD, FISHMONGER, POULTI.RER, &c., (Three doors from Blyth’s Grocery Stores, GEORGE STREET, BEGS to intimate to his Friends and the public in general that lie has commenced business in the above line, and will always have on hajid a supply of fresh and cured fisli. Oysters at alj hours. Cheap, good, .and fresh poultry of the choicest k juris will always be selected for this establishment, and orders punctually attended to, A. L. MACDONAND, Proprietor,