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New Zealand Mail, Issue 50, 6 January 1872, Page 18

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES. THE Government Laving 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 usua contracts dependent upon the contingencies ot human life. , The following advantages are presented as deserving of Public attention, and especial y of the working cla9Bes : 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 ot, * 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. f Fxtract from page 80 of “ New Zealand Gazette No. 8, February 4, 1871.] Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 3rd February, 1871. tN compliance with recommendations containecLin the Reports of the Flax Comnission Committee, and of the Joint Comnittee on Colonial Industries, to the effect hat “ premiums not exceeding in the whole JSOO should be granted for the encouragement f Sericiculture in the Colony,” and that the [evelopment of certain industrial pursuits rould often be best promoted by the offer of a ionus on production, the following Rewards ,re offered, subject to tie under-mentioned onditions : A bonus of 50 per cent, on the value resized is offered for the production of the first JIOOO worth of cocoons of the Silkworm or ggs of the Silkworm produced in the Colony, o be paid on quantities of not less value than ?50 or more than £IOO produced by any one erson. To any person or persons who shall manuicture, within the Colony, from New Zealand For the first 500 reams of Printing Paper, a um of £4OO ; and a fnrther sum of £250 for he first 500 reams of Packing .Taper; and the ike sum for the first 10,000 yards of Scrimloth suitable for covering flax bales. Conditions. The required quantity of each article to be omplsied before the 30th June, 1872. The weight of each ream of printing paper o be not less than 30 lbs., of each ream of >acking paper not less than 40 lbs., and of ach piece of scrim-cloth of 100 yards m ength and double width, not less than 30 lbs. The rewards, will be paid on the certificate if an officer to be appointed by the Government that the above conditions have been omphed with. w YARROW & HEDLEY’S MALL STEAMERS AND STEAM LAUNCHES, built of Wood, Iron or >l. 23 feet long, seats for 8 persons, come from £145 ; 30 feet long, seats for 14 ions, complete from £195 ; 37 long, s for 20 persons, complete from £245 ; 43 long, seats for 30 persons, complete from 0 ; 50 feet long, seats for 60 persons, come from £650 ; &c., &c. teamers up to 45 feet in length can be isported - on a ship’s deck complete, and ly for immediate use on arrival, be above may be used for conveying pas;ers, carrying cargo, or as tugs, he total working expenses of a steamer 43 long, amount to 15s a day in England ; consumption of fuel being about 6cwt, and an and a boy the crew required, addle and Screw Steamers specially deed for river navigation, having a very shaldraught of water. rachinery supplied for boats built abroad. HARROW & HEDLEY, Engineers and lders, Isle of Dogs, Poplar, London, rospectuses may be obtained at the office his journal. .prii 22nd, 1871. L^ m * DAFNESS ! ! —The undersigned having been for years hard of hearing, procured eh his brother, a banker in England, a 3 from the Royal Infirmary for Diseases e Ear, Dean-street, Soho, London, which mtirely cured him, and will be happy to 3Dond with anyone similarly afflicted. P T. B. HANNAFORD, Land Agent, High-street, Auckland. 3RVOUS DEBILITY. —A Gentleman, after years of suffering, has discovered a e means of self-cure. He will be happy ward the particulars to any sufferer on )t of a directed envelope and postage m Zealand stamps. Address—Mr Horace iley, Post-office, Melbourne.