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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 252, 30 July 1872, Page 4

Miscellaneous. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES. THE Government having been empowered by special Acts of the Legislature to cuter into contracts for Insurance 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 : 1. All transactions, and Powers of At* torney, and other documents, are free of Stamp Duty and all taxation. 2. No charge is made beyond the pur* chase-money or premium, paid quarterly. hal,-yearly, or annually. 3. Fourteen or twenty-one days of grace, according to the intervals of payment, are allowed beyond the due dates ; and should the assured die during these periods, the policy will still be valid. 4 Surrender values are granted on the whole or auy part of a contract which has endured for five years. E. The tables of Premiums in all the branches are considerably less than any other office in New Zealand. 6. Residence is permitted in any part o 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 £2OOO, from the claims of Creditors. 8. The Consolidated Revenue of the Colony is liable for all claims, in the event of the receipts (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 CECIL Y. Biss, Sub-Commissioner. Offices : Central Hall (next Post Office), Provincial Buildings, Dunedin. W. GISBORNE, Commissioner. AUCKLAND AGENCY. WE beg to NOTIFY that we have appointed Mr 11. J. ELLIS as our Agent in Auckland for the Sale of the THAMES GUARDIAN, and also for Receiving Advertisements. _ All orders can be left at the Daily Southern Cross Office, Queen-street, Auckland, where copies of the paper an also be obtained. Grahamstown, March 14, 1872. THE EUROPEAN MAIL. A SUMMARY of the Month’s News for Australia and New Zealand. Mr. J. H. Jefferson is the Thames Agent for the sale of the above newspaper, which is delivered immediately on arrival of each mail via Brindisi. The European Mail is acknowledged to contain the fullest selections of the n ws of the world up to the time of its despatch. Copies may be had at J. H. Jefferson s. Book-seller and News Agent, Pollen-street, Shortland.