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Press, Volume XVI, Issue 2162, 23 March 1870, Page 1

Exhibition. ART EXHIBITION, 1870. LAST WEEK OF THE EXHIBITION. THB EXHIBITION will POSITIVELY CLOSE on SATURDAY, tho 26th instant. MUSIC EVERY EVENING. Admission—One Shilling; ALEXANDER LEAN, Seerstar March 19,1870. 3-19 Kaiapoi JT a i R; THURSDAY, MARCH 84. ALL ENTRIES FREE. 314 Merohandise,n&c ON SALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED, in great variety—Timber and building materials of all kinds, posts and rails, corrugated iron, ridging, spouting, doors, sashes, stone piles, firewood, &c. Best Newcastle coals. JOHN T. BROWN, 12-23 Tuam street and Railway station. GLEN PARA WINES. QHIRAZ, CARBONET, five years old. Carbonet and Mataro, three years old. Samples on view at our office. BELCHER & FAIRWEATHER, 317 Kaiapoi. GRAIN. AND OTHER PRODUCE STORED AT CURRENT RATES. REVELL & 00. Charles afreet, Kaiapoi. 3*a7 Publicli Companies. '1 "'^SOCIETY GRANTS POLICIES OF LIFE ASSURANCE, And Guarantees the Fidelity of Officials in th® service of Government, Banks, Acj &0 n at moderate rate*; Agent for Canterbury— 12-11 W. L. HAWKINS. PACTFIO INSURANCE COMPANY. THIS COMPANY it: now prepared to take RISKS against FIRE aa well m Marine. W. L. HAWKINS, Agent. 8-S2 Colombo strait, Government Notices. Government Annuities OfSoe, Wellington, Ist March, 1870. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Government Insurance and Annuities offices, under "The Government Annuities Act, 1869," have been opened at the Chief Post Offices at Auckland, New Plymouth, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill, and at the Post Offices at Hokitika, Greymouth, Westport, and Charleston. All persons wishing to obtain Annuities, immediate or deferred, Life Insurances, or other advantages under this Act, will receive every information and the necessary forms on application at either of the above-named offices. W. GISBORNE, 3-7 Commissioner, NORTHERN RAILWAY. PRELIMINARY ADVERTISEMENT. THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT is PREPARED to RECEIVE PROPOSALS for the CONSTRUCTION of a RAILWAY to the north, from the western side of Christohurch, in accordance with the resolutions of the Provincial Counoil of ia&t session. The Government has in hand a sum of £50,000, whioh is available towards the purchase of land, and the construction of the work. Particulars will shortly be prepared as to the cost of the purchase of land on alternative lines. All information at present in possession of the Government can be obtained e.% the office of the Secretary for Public Works. EDWD. JOLLIE, Secretary for Public Works. Publio Works Office, _ Christohurch, Nov. 15i 1869 a 11-10