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Evening Star, Issue 2858, 17 April 1872, Page 4

Government Notices. STEAM MAIL SERVICE. TENDERS will be received at the General Post Office, Wellington, till the 22nd April next, for the performance of the undermentioned Mail Steam Service : Between Picton and the Manakau, calling at Nelson and Taranaki, and back to Picton by the same route, once every four weeks. The names, tonnage, and horse-power of the vessels proposed to be employed to be stated, and the vessels to be approved by the Postmaster-General, and to be surveyed by some person appointed by him whenever he may consider it necessary. A chief cabin passage free of cost either for passage or victualling to be provided when required for an officer of the Post Office Department. A proper and secure room to be provided for the mails, and all mails to be landed and shipped by and at the expense of the contractor. The days and hours of arrival and departure at and from the various ports to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, who shall also have the power of detaining the vessels if necessary, for forty-eight hours after the days fixed for their departure from Manakau, without charge. For any other detention the rate of demurrage per hour to be stated The service to commence at Picton on the 12th May next. The services to be determined by either party giving three months notice in writing to the other. The low r eat or any tender not necessarily accepted. G. ELIOTT ELIOTT, Secretary. General Post Office, Wellington, 7th March, 1872 NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUIIIES. rfIHE Government having been empowered i 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 arc 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, aud 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 he obtained on application to any Money Order Office or Government Schoolmaster, or to ARCHIBALD BARK, Chief Postmaster, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner V. R, NOMINATED IMMIGRATION. PUBLIC NOTICE. riTHE Immigration Regulations may be J. obtained at any Post Office or Immigration Office, and Applications for Nominated Passages will be received at any Money Order Post Office, or by the Immigration Officer, Custom House, Dunedin. Terms : By Cash in Advance, L 5 per statute Adult. By Bills, payable 30 days after arrival, L 7 10s per statute Adult. J. EDWIN MARCH, Chief Immigration Officer for the Middle Island. Immigration Office, Custom House, Duuediu, April 6th, 1872. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TENDERS arc invited by the Colonial Government for conveying Bridge Materials from the ship Warw ck, at Port Chalmers to the site of the proposed bridge at the Waitaki River. Conditions of Contract may be seen at this Office, where Tenders will be received up till noon of Wednesday the 24tb April, 1872. The lowest, or any tender, not necessarily accepted. By command, W. N. BLAIR, District Engineer. Public Works Office, Dunedin, 12th April, 1872. Public Notices.. DREDGING Contract, No. 639., at proposed Railway Pier, Port Chalmers, has been withd; awn. HUGHES’S Retail COAL and WOOD Yard, Melville street, opposite Presbyterian Church. RINTING! PRINTING .'PRINTING! at the Ecmtvj Star Office,