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Evening Star, Issue 2806, 14 February 1872, Page 3

Wool Sale*. WOOL SALES. npHE Undersigned are now receiving "*■ Wool for Sale at their NEW WOOL STORES, PRINCES STREET SOUTH. WEEKLY SALES will be held every TUESDAY throughout the season. CARGILLS and M'LEAN. snipping. H. HOUGHTON & CO. Will despatch the following Steamers as under ; STORM BIRD, s. s., for WAIKAVA, and IN* VEKCARGILL WHARF about Friday next. RAKGATIRA, s.s, for LYTTELTON. WELLTNGTON, and NAPIER, about Saturday, Feb. 17th. HARBOR STEAM COMPANY, AGENTS. KEERA, s.s,, for LYTTELTON, WELLINGTON, NAPIER, POVERTY BAY, TAURANGA, and AUCKLAND, To-morrow, Thursday 15th. Cargo till 2 p.m. Passengers at 6p.m. Maori, s.s., for timaru, akaroa, and LYTTELTON, on Friday, February llith. Return tickets (available for this trip only) £4, Cargo till 10 a.ro. Passengers at 4 p. m, PRETTY JANE, s.s., for PORT MOLY* NEUX (transhipping “ perTuapeka ” per Kaitangata, Balclutha, &c.), about Friday, 16tn inst. . Beautiful star for invercar* GILL WHARF and BLUFF, on Mon* day, 19th February. PHOEBE, s.s., for LYTTELTON, WELLINGTON, PICTON, NELSON, TARANAKI, and MANUKAU, on Tuesday 20th February, Offices : Harbor Chambers. THE UNITED STATES, NEW ZEALAND, AND AUSTRALIA MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE. NEVADA, 2143 Tons, J. H. Blethen, Commander. NEBRASKA, 2,143 Tons, I. Harding, Commander. DACOTAH, 2,143 Tons. Under contract with the Government of New Zealand for a four-weekly service lx • tween Port Chalmers and San Francisco. Leaving Port Chalmers on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, And every fourth Friday thereafter, at noon. Freight—Bills of Lading issued to San Francisco, New York. Boston, and London at moderate rate*. Wool and flax must be hydraulic pressed. For rates of freight and passage and a 1 further particulars, apply to DRIVER, STEWART, and Co., Agents. 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 \he contingencies of humau life. Ths following advantages arc 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, Fourteeu or tweu ty -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 tbs whole or any part of a contract which has endured for live years, 6. Residence is permitted in any part of the Australasian Colonies or Europe, ami premiums may always he paid on the due dates at the nearest Money Order Office. 7. Insurances effected for the Ijcnetit of and settled on Wife or Children are free, to the extent of L2,C00, from the claims of Creditors. S. 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 iuformation cau be obtained on application to any Money Order Office or Government Schoolmaster, or to ARCHIBALD BARR, Chief Postmaster, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner TUESDAY, 20th FEBRUARY, At 3 o’clock sharp. TOWN RESIDENCE FOR SALE. POWER. PANTLIN, and Co., have received instructions to sell by auction, at the Long Room of the Criterion Hotel, on Tuesday, the 20th February, at 3 o’clock p.m., sharp, That Valuable and Choice Site, the property of William Johnston, Esq., known as INGLEWOOD, Situated in Queen-street, being Sections 65, 66, 67, and 68, Block XIX., Dunedin, with eight roomed bouse, stable and coach-bottlf thereon.