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Evening Star, Issue 2888, 22 May 1872, Page 4

Government Notice. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES. THE Government having been empowered by special Acts of the Legislature to enter into contracts for Insurances ©n 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 1 Stamp Duty and all taxation. 3. No charge is made beyond the purchase moaey or premium, paid quarterly, half-yearly, or annually. 4. Ttwenty-one days of grace, 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 three 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 arc 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 BAKE, Chief Postmaster, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner V. R, TENDERS are invited for the erection of Immigration Barracks at Dunedin, in the province of Otago. General conditions, Specifications, and Drawings, may be seen at the Offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington, at the Offices of the Resident Minister, Christchurch, at the Public Works Offices, Dunedin, and at the offices of the General Government Agent, Auckland. Tenders will he received by the undersigned, up to noon on Saturday, the 25th day of May. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. W. H. CLAYTON, Colonial Architect. Wellington, Ist May, 1872. MedicalPARADOX TO SUFFERERS. NERVOUSNESS ITS NATURE AND CURE. WHAT IS NERVOUSNESS ? Various answers might be given to this question, according to the constitution and knowledge of the individual. Strong healthy persons, whether medically educated or not, generally regard nervousness as more or less an “imaginary complaintit is sometimes only believed to be real when the patient is found to be dying or dead. The best answer to the question, probably, is this—nervousness IS AN UNNATURAL CONDITION OF THE nervous system. Sometimes this unnatural state is accompanied with considerable bodily weakness! 1 , loss of flesh and loss of strength ; but in most cases there is in earlier stages of the disorder no outward sign of weakness. The sufferers are found in both sexes ; they often have the bloom of health upon the cheek ; they are surrounded by kind friends, yet existence to them has no charms, for they feel that they cannot enjoy it. Without intending it, they annoy other people about the merest trifles ; if they encounter some person unexpectedly they feel confused, afraid, and alarmed ; the heart beats violently, the hand shakes when writing, and the whole frame at times experiences a complete tremulousness. The intellect also is sometimes clouded, the memory fails, the judgment becomes indistinct, the will capricious and undecided, the taste vitiated, the imagination broods upon unpleasant topics, the spirits are either very low or very excited, the ordinary duties of life become burdensome, society is shunned and business neglected. A STRANGE SPECTACLE. It is certainly strange, but not the less true, that perfectly sane persons in the prime of life, with firm step and healthy countenance, may occasionally be met with, who, in spite of possessing all theadvantages of education, religion, amplemeans and kind friends nevertheless are victims of the nervousness above described; unhappy themselves, they render other people unhappy. Why, is this? What cause has operated to change the cheerful, active, obliging, unsuspecting, and uncomplaining youth into the unhappy, drowsy, listless suspicious and gloomy misanthrope ? Many causes, or one cause only, may operate to produce this sad state ! The cause may be either mental or physical, or both combined, Attempts to cure nervousness by means of ordinary toniusehave so frequently proved fruitless, that the leading physicians now for the most part recommend kygeuic means, such as exercise in the open air, regular habits, sea bathing, the cold bath friction ; change of air and scene, as in travelling. If all these fail, as they often do, what is to be done ? The answer will be found by carefully perusing the following work. Ninth Edition, Post Free, Is 4 d. NERVOUS DEBILITY ITS cause and cure, With Plain directions for perfect Restoration to Health, Applications fo’’ a copy of the above work must be accompanied by the amount in New Zealand or other stamps, also a properly directed envelope CHARLES SENNET, Agent, Brooklyn House, Flagstaff Gardens, Melbourne.