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Marlborough Express, Volume VI, Issue 294, 27 May 1871, Page 3

©obcrmncnt Notice. 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 on 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 ot Attorney and other documents, are free of Stamp Duty and all taxation. 2. No charge is made beyond the purchase money or premium, which may be paid half-yearly or quarterly. 3. Should the assured die during the days of grace, the policy will still be valid. • 4. Surrender values are granted on the whole or any part of a contract which has endured for five years. 5. The tables of Premiums in all the branches are considerably less than in any other office in New Zealand. 6. Residence is permitted in any part of the Australasian Colonies and Europe, and premiums may be paid on the due dates at the nearest Money Orde .• Office. 7. Insurances effected for the benefit of and settled on Wife and Children are free, to the extent of £2,000, 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 duly invested at compound interest, at any time being insufficient to meet demands, thus affording the best security to the assured, f The fullest information can be obtained on application to any Money Order Office, or to the Chief-Postmaster, Blenheim. W. Gisborne, c 1 3 Commissioner. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 3rd February, 1871. IN compliance with recommendations contained in the reports of the Flax Commission Committee, and of the Joint Committee on Colonial Industries, to the effect that “premiums not exceeding in the whole £SOO should be granted for the encouragement of Sericulture in the Colony,” and that the development of certain industrial pursuits would often be best promoted by the offer of a bonus on production, the following rewards are offered, subject to the under-mentioned conditions : A bonus of 50 per cent, on the value realised is offered for the production of the first £I,OOO of cocoons of the Silkworm or eggs of the Silkworm produced in the Colony, to be paid on quantities of not less value than £SO or more than £IOO produced by any one person. To at.y person or persons who shall manufacture, within the Colony, from New Zealand Flax— For the first 500 reams of Printing Paper, a sum of £4OO ; and a further sum of £250 for the first 500 reams of Packing Paper ; and the like sum for the first 10,000 yards of Scrim-cloth suitable for covering flax bales. CONDITIONS. The required quantity of each article to be completed before the 80th June, 1872. The weight of each ream of printing paper to be not less than 301b5., of each ream of packing paper not less than 401b5., and of each piece of scrim-cloth of 100 yards in length, and double width, not less than 30lbs. The rewards will be paid on the cartificate of an officer to be appointed by the Government, that the above conditions have been complied with. cl 3 W. Gisborne. Sutherland Gold Mining Company (Registered). NOTICE ishereby given that the first ■half-yearly GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the said Company will be held at James’s Assembly Rooms, on MONDAY, the twenty-ninth day of May instant, at eight o’clock p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Half-yearly Accounts and the Balance Sheet of the said Company, together with the Report of the Auditors snd Directors thereon; and also to elect a Director in the place of Mr Joseph McArtney, who has retired from office ; and to appoint two Auditors for the ensuing half-year. Dated this twelfth day of May, 1871. Harry Pitt, / Legal Manager.