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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2681, 20 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, 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. Sales by Auction. TUESDAY, 24th OCTOBER, 1871, At 3 o’clock in the afternoon, DUNEDIN GAS- LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY LIMITED, DUNEDIN, OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. BY PUBLIC AUCTION. DRIVER, STEWART and CO., are instructed on behalf of the Debenture Holders of the Company, to Sell by Auction, at their Wool Stores, High-street, Dunedin, on the above date, WITHOUT RESERVE, The whole of the property of the Company, consisting of— All that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Town District of Dunedin, containing by admeasurement two acres or thereabouts, being part of section No 8, Block VII, on the Record Map of the said district, bounded towards the north-east 191 feet and 7-10ths of another foot, by the Government Main . Road leading from Dunedin to the Peninsula ; south-east, 452 feet and 3-10ths of another foot, by section number 7 ; south-west, 191 feet and 4-10ths of another feot, by other part of the said section No, 8 ; and north-west 452 feet and 3-10ths of another foot by the Government road through the said section No. 8 ; which said piece or parcel of land is held by the Company under a lease dated the 20th day of November, 1862 (registered number 3933), granted to them for a term of 21 years, from the Ist August 1862, with a perpetual right of renewal upon and under such terms and conditions as are expressed in the Lease, at an annual rent of LSO, payable half-yearly. . Together with A cottage, stable, and office, purifying house, governor-house, store, and smithy, store, fowl-houses, hut, and watercloset ; retort-house, including unused portion of roof ; base of large chimneystack, to accommodate four retort beds, built at the unfinished end of retorthouse ; temporary chimney and retort bed, condenser, foundations, tar tank and well, bridge and sundry plant, gas holder, tank, and syphon well plant, consisting of retorts, hydraulic main, condenser, purifier, holder, governor, &c., mains, service pipes, and meters. The property offered for sale is subject to an underlease thereof, dated 31st March, 1866 (registered No 12,890), from the Company to Mr S. S. Hutchison, for the whole of the term of the original lease, less the last 10 days thereof, at the yearly rent of L 2400, payable quarterly. The underlease is now vested in Henry Alers Hankey, Esquire, for the residue of the term thereby granted. Every renewal of the lease to be granted, must be applied for in writing two years before the of the current lease. The new rent, if not agreed upon, is to be fixed by arbitration, and in ascertaining the value of the land, the Gas Works are not to be taken into, account. If no renewal be taken, the Company or their assigns may remove the Works. The sale is made under a Deed of Mortgage, dated 29th September, 1864 (registered No 9068), from the Company to John Reid Mackenzie, Esquire, as the Manager of the New Zealand Banking Corporation, Limited (now wound up), and under a Deed dated 18th September, 1865 (registered No 11,266), from the Company to Mr Mackenzie, being a deed of further charge in favour of the Bank, and a charge in favour of the Debenture Holders of the Company, whe are now offering the property for sale through Mr Mackenzie as their Trustee, to satisfy the amount ofthe Debentures held by them, together with interest. Copies of the Leases and Mortgage Deeds can be inspected at the Deeds Registry, Dunedin, on referring to the registered numbers given above, and the originals at the Office of Mr Cook, solicitor, Dunedin. • Further particulars can be obtained on application to the Auctioneers, DRIVER STEWART and CO., At their Wool Stores, High-street, Dunedin j Mr COOK, Solicitor, Dunedin.