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Evening Star, Issue 2825, 8 March 1872, Page 4

Government Notices. 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 TRUNK RAILWAY, being the Clutha Contract, and extending northwards from the Clutha River. The drawings, specification, and original Contract may be seen on and 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 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 ARCHIBALD BARK, Chief Postmaster, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner Boot and Shoemakers. V. UASi R. BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. MFLEM I N G , • (Late of Stafford Street) PINK OF FASHION DRESS BOOTMAKER To His Excellency Sir George Fergusson Bowen, Governor of New Zealand. M.P. 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 be has reduced his prices, and is now prepared to supply FIRST-CLASSS DRESS BOOTS, made to the full Fink 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 - Literature. English and European news —The Mail, a paper containing tha news, the principal leaders, a well-digested Summary and all interesting matter from The Times. The newspaper hitherto known as The Eveening Mail, having become the property of the proprietors of The Times, is now published twice a week, under the title of The Mail, at the price of threepence per copy as heretofore. The days of publication will be Tuesday and Friday, and each paper will contain the news and all matters of interest aypearing in the three previous numbers of The Times, which will thus be rendered available, in a cheap and convenient form, for persons residing abroad or in the Colonies. Subscribers can obtain The Mail through Newspapers Agents, or may have it from the Publisher on pre-payment, at Printing-House Square, London. THE YOUNG LADIES’ JOURNAL Contains suitable Reading for families Elegant Designs in all kinds of useful and ornamental Needlework, accompanied by simple and complete directions. To be had everywhere Q MAW & SON, Manufacturers of Surgeons’ instruments, Infants' Feeding Bottles, Lint, &0., &o. And dealers in all kinds of DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES, Apothecaries’ Wares, II and 12 Aldersgate street, London, E. CAgent in the Colonies. OAKEY & SON’S Emery and Black Lead. Mills, 2, Blackfriars ..road, London, England. Agents everywhere.