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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2826, 1 December 1903, Page 2

Advertisements. i tar r\ t> * i Unvu What is it? TRY T. E. TAYLOR & CO., • ■;« AKAROA, Telephone No 19. Public Notices. WANTED. 'T'HREB WEANER PIGS. Apply, H. C. JACOBSON, Mail Office, Akaroa. NEW ZBALAND GOVERNMENT U PER CENT. 5/20 DEBENTURE LOAN. ISSUE OF £500,000. Part of £1,000,000 authorised to be raised under an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, and emituled "The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act, 1903.' MINIMUM PRICE OP ISSUE, £100 PEK CENT. TBE COLONIAL TREASURER invitee Tenders for £500,000 New Zealand Government 4 per cent. Dabenturesi. payable to Bearer, atd of the face value of £1,000, £500, £200, and £100 respectively, ac may be dfsired. These Debentures are .secured ou the Public Revenues of New Zealand, , The Principal will te repaid at par not earlier than five years nor later than twenty years from the let Febiuary, 1904, the Go. vernment reserving to itself the right of redemption (by conversion or otherwise) on the Lab February or the Ist August, 1909, or in aoy year after tho year 1909, upon giving s ; x months' notice in the Government " Gazette,•' and in at least four newspapers published in the Colony, of its intention to do so. Both Principal and Interest will be made payable at the Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand; Dividends, represented by coupons at* tached to the dabentures, will be payable on the Is February and the Ist August in eaoh year during the currency of tho Loan, at the Cashier's Office, Treasury, Wellington, nr at any Branch of the Bank of New Zealand in Niw Zi aland or Australia. At the option of the holder of any debenture, and on application made in that behalf at the Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand, he may at any time during its currency have it indorsed payable, both as to principal and interest, at any specified Branch of the Bank of New Zealand in Auetratia: Provided that the indorsement shall be made not leei than one month before the due date of the next ensuing payment of interest. Scrip Certificates (with Coupon attached for the payment of Intereet for the broken period from the 4th January, to the let February, 1904) will be issued, to be exchanged for the Debenture-bonds with Interest coupons attached. The firßt six months' interest, calculated upon the nominal amount of the Debenture, will be payable on the Ist August, 1904. The issue price will be at the rate of £100 in money for every £100 expreaeed in deben* turee (below which no tender will be accepted), payable as followe :— Deposit of 5 per oent. on application. First instalment of 45 per ceut on Mon* day, 4th January, 1904. Second instalment of 50 per cent, on Monday, Ist February, 1904. Paynvnts may be made in full at any time an or after the 4th January, 1904, and prior to the Ist Febiuary, 1904, at a discount at the rate of one pound ten shillings per centum per annum. Bealed tenders, addressed to the Secretary to the Treasury, Government Buildinge, Wellington Bccompauied wi.h the 5 per cent, deposit, will ba received up to noon of Wednesday, 23rd December, 1903, when they will be opened in the presence of the Colonial Treasurer and the Controller and Auditor General, and allotment will forthwith be made. If cheques are lodged with a Tender, they must ba drawn upon a Bank in Wellington, and be marked by such Bank »s " good " for 14 days. Cheques issued by a Bank need not be so marked. Tenders may be for the whole or any part of the Loin, and muse state what amount of money will be given for every £100 of the Debentures tendered for. Tenders must be for even hucdreds of pounds sterling, and at prices which are multiples of cix pence. Tenders at different prices must be on eeparate forme. The nominal amount of Debentures tendered for must be written on the outside of the Tender. In case of default in the payment of any instalment at its proper date, the deposib and instalment (if any) previously paid will be liable to forfeiture. If no allotment is made, the deposit will be returned. The first and second instalments may be paid at any Branoh of the Bank of New Zealand either in lhe Colooy of Australia, to the credit of the Public Account, or at the Treasury, Wellington, no later thau the several dates previously mentioned. Tenders must be on printed forms, which may be obtained at the Caehier'a Office, Treasury, Wellington, cr at the Offices of the Bank of New Zealand at Sydney. Melbourne, Auokland, Wellington, Ohristchurch or Dunedin. Offioe of the Colonial Treasurer, Wellington, 25th November, 1903.