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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

GENERAL Abstract showing the average amount
of the Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of
Australasia, within the Colony of New Zealand,
taken from the several Weekly Statements during
the Quarter from the 1st April to 30th June, 1875.

LIABILITIES.
Notes in Circulation—
Not bearing Interest ... ... ... ... £ s. d.
Bearing Interest ... ... ... ... 49,374 12 3
Bills in Circulation—
Not bearing Interest ... ... ... ... 4,287 7 6
Bearing Interest ... ... ... ...
Balances due to other Banks ... ... ...
Deposits—
Not bearing Interest ... ... ... 129,698 1 0
Bearing Interest ... ... ... ... 88,590 17 4

Total Amount of Liabilities ... ... £271,950 18 1

ASSETS.
Coined Gold and Silver and other coined
Metals ... ... ... ... ... ... £ s. d.
Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars ... 76,141 4 2
Landed Property ... ... ... ... 3,437 0 11
Notes and Bills of other Banks ... ... 30,513 16 11
Balances due from other Banks ... ... 964 7 0
Amount of all other Securities—

1. Notes and Bills Discounted ... ... 469,442 11 4
2. Colonial Government Securities ... ...
3. Other Funded Securities ... ...
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
   Debts abandoned as bad) ... ... 203,688 15 4
5. Securities not included under the above
   heads ... ... ... ... ... ... 268 8 2

Total amount of Assets ... ... ... £784,456 3 10

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at this date, £1,200,000.
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders, £12 10s.
per cent. per annum.
Amount of the last Dividend declared, £75,000.
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such
Dividend, £374,119 2s. 4d.
Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of July, 1875.
J. SAWERS, p. Manager, } at Wellington.
W. RILEY, p. Accountant,

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter
ended 30th June, 1875, £350,000.
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders, 6 per
cent. per annum.
Amount of the last Dividend declared, £10,000.
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such
dividend, £1,565 6s. 4d.
Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of July, 1875.
THOS. BUCHANAN, Manager.
W. KNOWLES, Accountant.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities
and Assets of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand
within the Colony, during the Quarter ended 28th
June, 1875.

LIABILITIES.
Notes in Circulation ... ... ... ... £ s. d.
27,116 3 0
Bills in Circulation ... ... ... ... 44,591 8 0
Balances due to other Banks ... ...
Government Deposits ... ... ...
Other Deposits—
Not bearing Interest ... ... ... 95,702 12 6
Bearing Interest ... ... ... ... 54,462 4 9

Total average Liablities ... ... ... £221,872 8 3

ASSETS.
Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined
Metal ... ... ... ... ... ... £ s. d.
82,665 4 1
Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars ... 3,789 9 7
Notes and Bills of other Banks ... ... 1,314 8 1
Balances due from other Banks ... ... 57,695 7 4
Landed Property ... ... ... ... 2,916 2 5
Amount of all other Securities—

1. Notes and Bills discounted ... ... 204,539 8 8
2. Colonial Government Securities... ... 658 0 0
3. Other Funded Securities ... ...
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
   Debts abandoned as bad) ... ... 99,971 7 4
5. Securities not included under the above
   heads ... ... ... ... ... ... 6,289 17 1

Total average Assets ... ... ... £459,839 4 7

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter
ended 28th June, 1875, £237,964.
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders, nil.
Amount of last Dividend declared, nil.
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such
Dividend, £1,401 5s. 3d.
Dated at Dunedin, this 28th day of June, 1875.
L. O. BEAL, Manager.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels
of land hereinafter described will be brought
under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act,
1870," unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same
within one calendar month after the publication of this
notice.

RICHARD BROWNSDON, Applicant.—1 rood,
Section 547, Town of Picton. Also 1 rood, Section
116, Town of Picton.

JOSEPH WARD, Applicant.—436 acres, more or
less, Sections 110, 111, and 112, Omaka District.
Also 96 acres 1 rood and 23 perches, more or less,
Section 13, of Block I., in said district. Also 545
acres, more or less, Section 14, of Block I., in said
district. (Edmund Eccles, Broker.)

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.
Dated this 6th day of August, 1875, at the Lands
Registry Office, Blenheim.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.
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