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New Zealand Mail, Issue 45, 2 December 1871, Page 1

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 working classes : 1. All transactions and Powers of Attorney, and other documents, are free of stamp duty and sill taxation. 2. No charge is made beyond the purchase money or premium. 3. Surrender values are granted on the wlple or any part of a contract which has endured for three years. 4j. 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 ; cr to Mr Joseph Wilcox. Victoria Avenue, Wanganui. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner. USTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. Established 1849. FOR MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, &c. '" NEW ZEALAND BRANCH : Head Office : Wellington. LocAii Board oe Directors : The Hon C. J. Pharazyn, M.L.C., Chairman The Hon. William Fitzherbcrt, 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 Bant 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. \j OE ROYAL MAIL COACHES TO WAIRARAPA Leave the booking office, at Martin & Downes Pier Hotel, on and after the sth June, Every Wendesday and Saturday morning at 7 a.m., arriving at Masterton same day, 1. The Hutt 7. Featherston 2. Taita 8. Tauherinikau 3. Silver Stream 9. Grey town 4s. Upper Hutt 10. Carterton 5. Mungaroa 11. Mastertoi. 6. Pakaratahi. Return Coaches leave Dixon's Accomdation House, Masterton, for Wellington, every Monday and Thursday, at 6.30 a.m., arriving in Wellington at 5 p.m. REDUCTION OF FARES. Wellington to Masterton ... ... 20s Do Grey town ... ... 15s All parcels for transmission must be prepaid W. R. HAST WELL, Proprietor. WILLIAM LYON, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, AND NEWSAGENT, Willis street, Wellington. The <: Home News," and " European Mail' received by the Suez Mail and the " News of the World," by the San Francisco Mail. Orders received for all New Books, and English Papers, and Periodicals.