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Evening Star, Issue 2860, 19 April 1872, Page 4

Government Notices. s&yi steam mail service. TfTEb DKHS will be received at the GeneI- r.tl 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. ihe days and hours of arrival and departure at and from the various ports to be rixed by the Postmaster-General, who shall also have the power of detaining the vessels it 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 stati d The service to commence at i ictou on the 12th May next. The services to be determined by either party giving three months notice in writing to the other. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. G. ELIOTT ELIOTT, Secretary. General Post Office, Wellington, 7th March, 1872 NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TENDERS are invited by the Colonial Government for convening Bridge Mati rials from the ship Warw ck, at Fort Chalmers to the site of the proposed bridge at the Waitaki Giver. Conditions of Contract may be seen at this Office, where 'lenders will bo received np till noon of Wednesday the 21th April, 1872. The lowest, or any tender, not necessarily accepted. By command, W. N. BLAIR, District Engineer. Public Works Office, Dunedin, 12th April, 1872. NEW Z UAL AND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUI - IBS. rpiJE Government having been empowered JL by special Acts of the Legislature to enter into contracts for Insurances on Lives, and for the grants of Annuities and Endowments, arc 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, arc 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 sealed 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 clauns, 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 Behoolm aster, or to ARCHIBALD BARR, Chief Postmaster, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner. BRANDISH’S ALKALINE Compound of SARSAPARILLA, or general debility, indigestion, scrofulous affections, chronic rheumatism, &c., as prepared by the late G. F- W\\ TT S, and sold !;y Barclay & Son, 95 Parnngdon street, and all Chemists and Druggists. Sole Agents: KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER, AND CO., Dunedin To be bad everywhere. HOLLOWAY’S OINTMENT and PILLS. —Sure relief.—The weak and enervated suffer severly from nervous affections when storms or electric disturbance* agitate the atm-.'sphere. Neuralgia, gouty pangs, and flying pains, so distressing to a delicate system, may be readily removed by rubbing this Ointment upon the affected part after it has been fomented with warm water. The. Pills taken occasion; lly in dosis as prescribe d by the instructions keep the digestion in order, excite a free flow of of healthy bile, and regenerate the impoverished blood with those richer materials, which result from thoroughly assimilated food, and in the absence of which, the strongest must iuevita - ly soon sink into feebleness, and the deicate find it difficult to maintain existence, tollo way’s Ointment and Pills arc infallible remedies.