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Evening Star, Issue 2813, 23 February 1872, Page 4

Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUI. lES. 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 ihe 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 live 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 ARCH IBALD BARR, Chief Postmaster, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner

Medical. NO MORE POVERTY OF TJIE BLOOD. Ur Leras, Apothecary Doctor of Scienct, 7 Rue de la Feuillade, Paris. This new ferruginous medicine contains the elements of the bones and blood, and iron in a liquid state. From observations made in the Fans hospitals, and detailed in the Prospectus, it is superior to ferruginous pills, lactate of iron, iron reduced by hydrogen, pills and syrupu of the iodide of iron, and cores rapidly stomach complaints, painful diges. tion, poverty of the blood, loss of strength and appetite, and diseases incident to females. It is the best adjunct to Cod Liver Ojl, mid the best preserver of health in tropical o|i> mates Elixir of Pepaine. Prepared by Grimault & Co., Chemists, Rea de Feuillade, Paris. According to the formula of Dr Corvisart Knight of the Legion of Honour, Physician to ELM. the Emperor of the French, Pepaine is the gastric juice itself, or rather the active principle purified, which digests food in the stomach. When from various causes the supply ef the digestive fluid s too small, the inevitable consequences aro bad digestion, gastritis, gas* tralgia; inflammation of the mucous coat of the stomach and bowels, heart - bum, anoemea, loss of strength, and in females general de* "angement. The Elixir of Pepsine, which is sanctioned by the approbation of the Paris Academy of Medicine speedily cures all such diseases, and prevents vomiting daring preg* nancy. Agents in all the Colonies. rriHE BLOOD PURIFIER, OLD DR X JACOB TOWNSEND’S SARSAPA* RILLA. TWO CASES OF CONSUMP* TlON.—Broad street, Park, Sheffield, Mar. 20, 1869. Messrs Dean, Steel, and Co.— Gentlemen, —Some months age a young mar called upon us and purchased a bottle of “ The Blood Purifier,” Old Dr Jacob Townsend’s Sarsaparilla, So delicate was his state of health that it was the subject of remark; there was hurried breathing, emaciation, debility, and other unmistakeable symptoms of phthisis. He called several times afterwards, each time buying a bottle, and so improved in appearance that we congratulated him upon it. He said that Old Dr Jacob Townsend’s .Sarsaparilla had saved his life, and also that of his brother, who was far gone in consumption, and who had been taking it with the same benefit as him* self. Both brothers are now in vigorous health, each weighing more than 13 stone.— Robekt Roper and Son. Sold by all druggigtg at Home and in the Colonies. Chief Depot—l3l, Fleet street, London. In botties of various sizes. Caution.—Get the Red and Blue Wrappers, with the Old Doctor’s head in the centre. No other genuine.

In all cases 1 have found Dr De Jongh’s Cod Liver Oil possessing the same set of properties, among which the presence of cholaio compounds, and of iodine in a state of organic combination, are the most remarkable.”—Dr Letheby, Medical Officer of Health to the City of London. Ageuts in New Zealand. WILLIAM GREENWOOD, Nightman. Address Boxes : Queen’s Arms HoteJj Union Hotel, Cragiebum Hotel, Provincial Hotel, Glasgow Arms Hotel, Royal George Hotel, York Hotel, London Tavern, Empirp Hotel, Old Identity Hotel, Sussex Hotel, Oddfellows’ Arms Hotel, Robert Rnrna Hotel, Hibernian Hotel Rubbish taken away on the shortest notice. N.B.—Chimney sweeping done. William Greenwood's name alone on the hove**. WELP TON'S VEGETABLE PURIPYING PILLS. Prepared and sold wholesale and retail in boxes, price 74d, Is 14d, and 2s 9d each, by G. Whelpton and Son, 3, Crane Court, Elect Street, London, and may be had of all Chemists and Medecine Vendors in the Colony. OAKEY’S Wellington Knife Polish Packets 3d each; tins 6d, Is, 2$ 6d and4s each. Agents in all the Colonies.