GENERAL ABSTRACT, shewing the AVERAGE AMOUNT of the LIABILITIES and ASSETS of the UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA, within the Colony of
New Zealand, taken from the several Weekly Statements, during the Quarter from the 1st January to the 31st March, 1857.

LIABILITIES.

Notes in Circulation ................................................................................................................... { Not bearing Interest 33,406 3 1
Bearing Interest ..........................................................................................................................
Bills in Circulation ...................................................................................................................... { Not bearing Interest 21,985 4 5
Bearing Interest..........................................................................................................................
Balance due to other Banks.......................................................................................................... 559 0 0
Deposits ....................................................................................................................................... { Not bearing Interest 321,769 6 4
Bearing Interest..........................................................................................................................

Total Amount of Liabilities........................................................................................................ 377,719 13 10

ASSETS.

Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined Metals ...................................................................... 95,265 12 8
Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars .......................................................................................... 2 2 8
Landed Property .......................................................................................................................... 944 8 11
Notes and Bills of other Banks.................................................................................................. 2,023 17 2
Balances due from other Banks.................................................................................................. 614 0 0
Amount of all Debts due to the Bank, including Notes, Bills of Exchange } 264,494 19 9
and all Stock and Funded Debts of every description, excepting Notes,
Bills and Balances, due to the said Bank from other Banks .......................................................

Total Amount of Assets......................................................................................................... 363,345 1 2

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at date of the last advices from
London ..................................................................................................................................... £ 820,000 0 0
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders ................................................................ 20 pr. ct. pr. ann.
Amount of the last Dividend declared for the half year ending 31st
December, 1856.......................................................................................................................... 82,000 0 0
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such Dividend 289,138 1 9

A. KENNEDY, Manager.
F. E. STEWART, Accountant.

I, ALEXANDER KENNEDY, make Oath, that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the foregoing Abstract is a true and faithful Account of the Average Amount of Assets and Liabilities
of the above Bank within the Colony of New Zealand during the period specified; and that the same was made up from the Weekly Statements thereof.

ALEXANDER KENNEDY.

Sworn before me, at Auckland, New Zealand, this
eighteenth day of May, 1857.
J. GREENWOOD, Justice of the Peace for the Province of Auckland, N. Z.

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