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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2679, 18 September 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, ac- ' cording 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. 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, &0., Also GENERAL MERCHANTS. Awarded for the Superior Quality of their Steel, Files, Wire, Tools, &<?. Agents in all the Colonies. JOYCE’S SPORTING AMMUNITION Established 1820. FREDERICK JOYCE & CO. Invite the attention of Sportsmen to the foP 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 Brecch-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. Agents in all the Colonies, RS. NEWALL &CO. • Sole Patentees of UNTWISTED WIRE ROPE, For Ships’ Standing Rigging, NEWALL & Co.’s WIRE RIGGING Is one-half the weight, one-sixth the bulk, , and one-half the price of hemp rigging, ship for ship. It is lighter and stronger than any other wire rope in the market, and is entirely machine made. A staff of riggers always ready for work at home or abroad. Their PATENT COPPER WIRE CORD Is also extensively used for window-sash lines, hot-houses, lightning conductor, picture cord, clock cord, tent ropes, clothes dines, and many other purposes for which hempen rope had previously been used. The exquisite flower baskets in the Crystal Palace are hung with Newall and Co.’s Patent Cord. NEWALL & Go’s PATENT WIRE, STRAND. Agents in all the Colonies. BRYANT AND MAY’S PATENT SAFETY MATCHES Advantages:— Protection from Disease tp those employed in the Manufacture. Protection from Fire. Agents in all the Colonies. BRADFORD’S PATENT “VOWEL” WASHING MACHINE. without any hesitation, and in the t f fullest confidence, recommend every housekeeper or housewife, who has the requisite conveniences, to avail herself of our terms of trial—“one or two months”—before definite purchase ; very many have done so during the last two or throe years, and the result has been in the highest degree satisfactory, both to purchasers and ourselves, as will be seen from the numerous unsolicited letters from all parts of the kingdom, and from every class of purchasers, in our illua trated catalogue, which may be had post-free on application. Agents in all the Colonies, Nightman. WILLIAM GREENWOOD, Nightman. Address Boxes : Queen’s Arms Hotel, Union Hotel, Cragieburn Hotel, Provincial Hotel, Glasgow Arms Hotel, Royal George Hotel, York Hotel, Loudon Tavern, Empire Hotel, Old Identity Hotel, Sussex Hotel, Oddfellows’ Arms Hotel, Robert Burns Hotel, Hibernian Hotel. Rubbish taken away on the shortest notice. N.B.—Chimney sweeping dorc, William Greenwood’s nam* alone on the boxes,