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New Zealand Mail, Issue 38, 14 October 1871, Page 18

Australian mutual provident society. Established 1849. FOR MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, &c. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH: Head Office : Wellington. Local Board of Directors:. The Hon C. J. Pharazyn, M.L.C., Chairman The Hon. William Fitzherbert, M.H.R. Deputy Chairman A. de B. Brandon, Esq., M.H.R. The Hon Morgan S. Grace, Esq., M.D., M.L.C. George Hunter, Esq , M.H.R. Auditors : Thomas Buchanan, Esq. Joe Dransfield, Esq. Medical Officer : Alexander Johnstone, Esq , M.D. Bankers : The Bank of New Zealand. The New Zealand Branch of the above Society is now established, and is prepared to carry on business in their offices, Grey-street, Wellington. Prospectuses showing the present state and progress of the Society, and forms of proposal, may be had, or will be sent, on application to any of the agents, or at the head office as above. JOSEPH DYER, Resident Secretary. 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 auman life. The following advantages are presented as deserving of Public attention, and especially of the woi’king classes : 1. All transactions and Powers of Attorney, and other documents, are free of stamp duty and all taxation. 2. No charge is made beyond the purchase money or premium. 3. Surrender values are granted on the whole or any part of a contract which has endured for three years.. 4. The tables of premiums in all the branches are considerably less than in any other office in New Zealand. 5. Residence is permitted in any part of the Globe distant except within 31 ° S., or 33 °N. of the Equator, or in any part of the Australian Colonies south of the 25th parallel of south latitude, and premiums may always be paid on the due dates at the nearest Money Order Office. 6. Insurances effected for the benefit of, and settled on wife or children are free, to the extent of £2OOO, from the claims of creditors. 7. The Consolidated Revenue of the ' Colony is liable for all claims, in the event of the receipts 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 Post Office, or to Mr Benjamin Smith, at the offices of B. Smith & Co., Wellington ; or to Mr Joseph Wilcox, Victoria Avenue, Wanganui. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner. [Extract from page 80 of “New Zealand Gazette,” No. 8, February 4, 1871.] Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 3rd February, 1871. IN compliance with recommendations contained in the Reports of the Flax Commission Committee, and of the Joint Committee on Colonial Industries, to the effect that “ premiums not exceeding in the whole £SOO should be gi-anted for the encouragement of Sericiculture in the Colony,” and that the development of certain industrial pursuits would often be best promoted by the offer of a bonus on production, the fallowing Rewards are offered, subject to tie under-mentioned conditions : A bonus of 50 per cent, on the value realized is offered for the production of the first £IOOO worth of cocoons of the Silkworm or eggs of the Silkworm produced in the Colony, tolbe paid on quantities of not less value than £SO or more than £IOO produced by any one person. To any person or persons who shall manufacture, within the Colony, from New Zealand flax— For the first 500 reams of Printing Paper, a 1 sum of £4OO ; and a further sum of £250 for the first 500 reams of Packing Paper; and the like sum for the first 10,000 yards of Scrimcloth suitable for covering flax bales. ' Conditions. The required quantity of each article to be completed before the 30th June, 1872. The weight of each ream of printing paper to be not less than 30 lbs., of each ream of packing paper not less than 40 lbs., and of each piece of scrim-cloth of 100 yards in length and double width, not less than 30 lbs. The rewards will be paid on the certificate of an officer to be appointed by the Government that the above conditions have been complied with. W. GISBORNE. ADAMS’S PATENT C. F. BREECHLOADING REVOLVERS as exclusively adopted by H.M. War Departments. Reprints of special articles from the “ Engineer,” “ Daily Telegraph,” “Pall. Mall Gazette,” &c., on competitive trials, of this revolver, with price lists, can be obtained on application to John Adams, at the Factory and Depot, 391, Strand, London, W.C., the sole &(idr6B9 Breech loading guns and rifles with all necessary appurtenances. Caution. —It is necessary to caution purchasers against spurious imitations of tliis revolver of the most inferior make.