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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2689, 29 September 1871, Page 4

Government Notices, Twice daily Twice weekly Once weekly Once daily Once weekly Once weekly INLAND MAIL SERVICES. SEALED TENDERS will be received at the Chief Post Office, Dunedin, till the 30th September instant, for the Conveyance of Mails between the undermentioned places, from the Ist January to the 31st December, 1872, both days included : No. Services. Frequency each way. 1. Dunedin and Port Chalmers (including seaborne mails) 2. Dunedin and Portobello, via North East Harbor 3. Portobello and the Kaik 4. East Taieri and West Taieri, via North Taieri 5. Waihola and Taieri Beach 6. Taieri Ferry and Taieri Beach ... ... ... vui;g w coiiiy 7. Balclutha and Kaitangata Twice weekly 8. Balclutha and Port Molyneux via Warepa ... Twice weekly 9, MatauraandWaimahaka Once weekly 10.* North Taieri and Hindon Once weekly 11, West Taieri and Waipori Twice weekly 12. West Taieri and Waipori V Lake 13. Lawrence, Weatherstone, and Bluespur 14. Lawrence and Tuapeka Mouth 15. Beaumont, Switzers, and Welshmans ... 16. Tapanui Junction (M'Kays) and Tapanui Once weekly 17. Oamaru and Oamarama, with branch to Marewhenua 18. Waihemo and Macraes 19. Shag Valley P. 0. and Macraes 20. Kyeburn, Hyde, and Hamiltons 21. Hamiltons and Linburn 22. Hamiltons, Linburn and Serpentine ... • ... 23. Blackstone Hill and St Bathans 24. Mount Ida and Kyebum diggings 25, Blacks and Dry bread .. 26 Clyde and Queenstown 27. * Kawarau and Nevis 28.*Kawarau and Nevis Once 29. Kawarau and Cardrona, via Rocky Point and Albert Town, with branch to Bendigo .., Once weekly 30*Queenstown and Moke Creek Once weekly 31Queenstown and Skip* pers ... .. Once fortnightly 32. Switzers and Waikaka... Once weekly 33. Arrow river and Twelve Mile Creek .., ... Once weekly 34. Kakanui P.O. and the Telegraph Office, Kakanui mouth ... ... Twice weekly Services markei 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 Cart. 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 Post-office. No tender will beconsidered 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. BARE, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post-office, Dunedin September 1, 1871. Once weekly Once daily Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once weekly Once Weekly Thrice 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 ®n Lives 1 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 bo 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.