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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

order that the officers of the Telegraph Department
may not be deprived of the privileges of the day
more than can be helped.

Any infringement of these directions will be
followed by the officer in fault being surcharged
with the expense of the unnecessary work thus
occasioned.

W. Fox
(for the Postmaster-General and
Commissioner of Telegraphs).

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, 2nd May, 1872.

T is hereby notified for general information, that
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Immi-
gration Officers:—
NELSON—Alfred Greenfield, Esq.
BLENHEIM—John Barleyman, Esq.
GREYMOUTH—James Wylde, Esq.
HOKITIKA—J. S. Browning, Esq.
CHRISTCHURCH—John Edwin March, Esq.
TIMARU—F. LeCren, Esq.
OAMARU—John Locke, Esq.
DUNEDIN—Colin Allan, Esq.
INVERCARGILL—Walter H. Pearson, Esq.
And that John Edwin March, Esq., has been ap-
pointed Chief Immigration Officer for the Middle
Island: this appointment to date from 1st January
last.

W. REEVES.

Office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,
Wellington, 8th May, 1872.

I, JOHN ELISHA SMITH, Registrar of Joint
Stock Companies for the Province of Welling-
ton, do hereby notify that I have this day registered
a Memorandum of Association, accompanied by
Articles of Association, establishing a company, with
limited liability of the shareholders therein, entitled
"The Wellington Public Hall Company, Limited."
The objects for which the Company is established
are: "To acquire by purchase or lease a piece of
land in the City of Wellington, and to erect thereon
a hall or building, and to use the same as a place for
public and private meetings, entertainments, assem-
blies, and theatrical performances, and to let the
same for any period for any or all of such purposes;
to let on building lease, or occupation lease, or other-
wise, such parts of any lands or buildings acquired
by the Company as may not for the time being be
required for use by the Company for the purposes
first above mentioned; to do all such things as may
be incidental to any of the above purposes or benefi-
cial to the Company."
And I further notify that, in pursuance of the pro-
visions of "The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860,"
a Certificate of Incorporation of the said Company
has been duly issued by me, bearing even date here-
with.

JOHN E. SMITH,
Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.

STATEMENT of the Average Amount of LIABILITIES and ASSETS of the BANK OF NEW
ZEALAND, in the Colony of NEW ZEALAND, during the Quarter ended 25th MARCH, 1872.

LIABILITIES.
Notes in Circulation
Bills in Circulation.
Balances due to other Banks
Government Deposits
Other Deposits—
Not bearing Interest
Bearing Interest

Total Average Liabilities £2,230,037 4 6

ASSETS.
Coined Gold and Silver, and other
Coined Metals
Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars
Notes and Bills of other Banks
Balances due from other Banks
Landed Property
Amount of all other Securities—

1. Notes and Bills Discounted
2. Colonial Government Secu-
   rities
3. Other Funded Securities
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclu-
   sive of Debts abandoned as
   bad)
5. Securities not included under
   the above heads

Total Average Assets £2,697,543 10 1

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter ended
the 25th March, 1872
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders equal to
Amount of the last Dividend declared
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such Dividend
Dated at Auckland, this 20th day of April, 1872.

D. L. MURDOCH, Inspector.
FREDK. BATTLEY, Inspector's Accountant.