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Evening Star, Issue 2900, 5 June 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 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 : I. The tables of Premiums in all the branches are considerabty 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. 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. U 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 en 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 v * SUPPLY OF TIMBER. TENDERS are invited by the Colonial Government for a SUPPLY OF BUILDING TIMBER, to be delivered on Ripa Island, Lyttelton harbour. General conditions and specifications may be seen at the office of the resident Minister for the Middle island, at Christchurch ; at the offices of the District Engineers at Dunedin and Hokitika ; and at the office of W. H. Pearson, Esq., Invercargill. Tenders will be received at the Office of the Resident Minister, Christchurch, endorsed “ Tender for Supply of Timber,” until noon of Saturday, 15th day of June next. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By direction of the Resident Minister.] THOMAS WM. MAUDE, Secretary. Resident Minister’s Office. Christchurch.

Medical. SINGLETON’S SARSAPARILLA, — Manufactured from the formula of the celebrated Dr Pereira, M,D., F.R.C.S., L.A.C., Lecturer on Chemistry and Thera' peutics at the London Hospitals,—is the best preparation of the real Jamaica root ever offered to the public. It is warranted free from mercurial or other deleterious ingredients, combines the agneable flavor of a cordial with the active principles of the famous Red Jamaica Sarsaparilla, and is highly recommended for its curative and restorativ* properties by the most eminent medical men. SINGLETON’S SARSAPARILLA May be obtained from all druggists, mer chants, and storekeepers, throughout the world. WATTS’S SIR RICHARD JEBB’S STOMACHIC A.PERIENT PILLS, or Bilious and Liver Complaints, Indigestion, Costiveness, Piles, Head Ache, &e. ka prepared by the late G. F. Watts, and sold by T. Keating, St. Paul’s Chorohyard; ant all chemists and druggists. Sole Agents— KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER, & CO. MORE COD LITER OIL.—

Syrups of lodized Horseradish. Prepared by Grimault and Co., Chemists, 7 Rue de Feuilladc, Paris. According to the certificates of the physicians of the Paris hospivtals detailed in the prospectus, and with the approbation of several Academies, this syrup is employed with the greatest success in place of Cod Liver Oil, to which it is ready superior. It cures diseases of the chest, scrofula, lymphatic green sickness, muscular atony, and loss of appetite, it regenerates the constitution by purifying the blood, and is, in a word, the most powerful depurative known. It neves fatigues the stomach and bowels like the iodide of Potassium and the lodide of Iron, and is administered with the greatest efficacytoyoungchildreasubjecttoehumonrs, or obstruction of (the glands. D’Cazenave of St Louis Hospital, Paris, recommends it particularly in cutaneous diseases conjointly with the pills which bear his name. Manufactured by Grimault & Co., Chmists, Rue de FeuiUade, Paris. This new medicine, which is delicious to the palate, is a sovereign remedy for cough, colds, irritation of che lungs, and is also an excellent remedy in cases of consumption. Under its influence the cough abates, nocturnal perspiration cease, and the patien rapidly recovers health aud flesh Agents in all the Colonies. BRYANT AND MAY’S PATENT SAFETY MATCHES Light only on the Box. To be had in any Town in the Colonies.