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Evening Star, Issue 2823, 6 March 1872, Page 4

Government Notices. pPp25& NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TENDERS are invited by the Colonial Government for the construction and completion, in terms of the contract made with Messrs McLeod and Co., of about Ten and one-half Miles of the OTAGO SOUTHERN THUNK RAILWAY, being the Clutha Contract, and extending northwards from the Clutha River. The drawings, specification, and original Contract may be seen on anti after Thursday, the 7th March, at the Public Works Office, Dunedin, where tenders will be received until noon of Thursday, 28th March. The lowest, or any tender, not necessarily accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. Public Works Office, Wellington, 28th February, 1872. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUIUES. 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 ARCHIBALD BARR, Chief Postmaster, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner Boot and Shoemakers. v. MBpsy R. BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. MFLEM I N G , • (Late of Stafford Street) PINK OF FASHION DRESS BOOTMAKER To Hjs Excellency Sir George Fergcsson Bowen, Governor of New Zealand. M. F. begs to return thanks to his supporters and the Public for the patronage he has received during the past three years ; and desires to intimate that he has reduced his prices, and is now prepared to supply FIRST-CLASSS DRESS BOOTS, made to the full Pink of Fashion, at 32s fid ; Clump Bottom Double Soles at 355. PRINCES STREET NORTH. Between Mr G. R. West’s Music Establishment and Mr D. R, Hay’s Clothing Establishment Veterinary Surgeons. EXTRAORDINARY NEWS. MR SLESINGER, Veterinary Surgeon, Hope street, Dunedin, announces to his Friends and the Public, his intention, from this date, of reducing his charges for ADVICE and MEDICINE to ONE-HALF of the former rate, so as to enable owners of the lowest-priced Animals to have them properly attended to. MrS. takes this opportunity of thanking the public for their liberal support daring the past eight years, aud trusts by very moderate charges to secure a still further increase of their patronage. The purest Horse and Cattle Medicine supplied at lower prices than any chemist and druggist’s house in Dunedin. Slesinger’s Blister Ointment, superior to James’s, Is fid a pot only ! Slcsinger’s superior Embrocation for Sprains, Rheumatics, and Saddle Galls from 2s fid a bottle. Also, Slesinger’s superior Condition Powders, reduced to half-price Manufacturers. BRADFORD’S PATENT “VOWEL” WASHING MACHINE WE, without any hesitation, ana in the 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 three years, and the result has been in the highest degree satisfactory, both to purchasers and ourselves, as will be seen from fcbe numerous unsolicited letters from all parts of the kingdom, and from every class of purchasers, in eur Ulus trated catalogue, which may be had post-free on application.