THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 713

G ENERAL Statement of the average amount of
Liabilities and Assets of the National Bank of
New Zealand (Limited), within the Colony, during
the Quarter ended 30th September, 1875.

LIABILITIES.
£ s. d.
Notes in Circulation ... ... 122,021 9 3
Bills in Circulation ... ... 6,200 16 9
Balances due to other Banks ... 24,077 16 8
Government Deposits ... 3,762 0 1
Other Deposits—
Not bearing Interest ... 304,589 1 0
Bearing Interest ... 355,381 2 11
Total average Liabilities ... £816,032 6 8

ASSETS.
Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined
Metal ... 169,349 11 0
Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars ... 37,439 1 5
Notes and Bills of other Banks ... 7,909 17 1
Balances due from other Banks ... 7,477 12 1
Landed Property ... 54,603 3 10
Amount of all other Securities—

1. Notes and Bills Discounted ... 667,099 12 9
2. Colonial Government Securities ...
3. Other Funded Securities ...
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
   Debts abandoned as bad) ... 547,479 2 4
5. Securities not included under the above
   heads ... 19,863 17 4
   Total average Assets ... £1,511,221 17 10

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter
ended 30th September, 1875, £350,000.
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders, 6 per
cent. per annum.
Amount of the last Dividend declared, £9,904 13s. 3d.
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such
Dividend, £16,866 0s. 2d.
Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of October,
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 27th
September, 1875.

LIABILITIES.
Notes in Circulation ... 34,887 10 6
Bills in Circulation ... 492 9 7
Balances due to other Banks ... 4,652 7 6
Government Deposits ...
Other Deposits—
Not bearing Interest ... 144,784 0 9
Bearing Interest ... 74,141 13 3
Total average Liabilities ... £258,958 1 7

ASSETS.
Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined
Metal ... 88,440 13 9
Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars ... 5,748 15 7
Notes and Bills of other Banks ... 676 12 3
Balances due from other Banks ... 8,948 19 3
Landed Property ... 4,250 11 8
Amount of all other Securities—

1. Notes and Bills Discounted ... 254,654 12 2
2. Colonial Government Securities ...
3. Other Funded Securities ...
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
   Debts abandoned as bad) ... 141,502 7 2
5. Securities not included under the above
   heads ... 6,681 17 9
   Total average Assets ... £510,904 9 7

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter
ended 27th September, 1875, £244,054 13s.
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, £4,723 18s. 10d.
Dated at Dunedin, this 15th day of October, 1875.
L. O. BEAL, Manager.
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NOTICES UNDER LAND TRANSFER ACT.

THE following Applications have been made under
the Act:—

HENRY BROOMWICH and JOHN EDWARD
JACOMBS, as Devisees in trust under Will of
CHARLES PREBBLE, late of Christchurch, deceased, to
be registered as Proprietors of part of Section 839,
City of Christchurch, containing about 7 perches,
with frontage to Hereford Street.

FRANCIS CHARLES TIPPING and HENRY
MCCLINTOCK TIPPING, as Devisees in trust
under Will of FRANCIS HALL TIPPING, late of Ashley
Bank, in the Province of Canterbury, deceased, to
be registered as Proprietors of Rural Sections
14454 and 14455, Oxford District, in said province.

The Applicants will be registered as above unless
caveat forbidding same be lodged with the District
Land Registrar, at Christchurch, in each case, on or
before the 11th day of May, 1876.

Dated at Lands Registry Office, Christchurch, this
2nd day of November, 1875.
623
EDWARD DENHAM,
Deputy District Land Registrar.

To the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages
for the District of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

I, HENRY PEARDE, Licentiate of Royal College
of Physicians, Edinburgh, Licentiate of Royal
College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, Licentiate of Society
of Apothecaries of London, Licentiate of Midwifery
of Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, and Royal
College of Physicians, now residing in Port Chalmers,
do hereby give notice that I intend to apply to you,
on the 10th December, 1875, to have my name placed
on the Register of Medical Practitioners in the
Colony of New Zealand, and I have deposited my
Diplomas, along with this, in your office, for public
inspection, in terms of "The Medical Practitioners
Act, 1869."

HENRY PEARDE.
Dated this 2nd day of November, 1875. 621

NOTICE.

THE Partnership between W. B. Smith and J. C.
Firth, carrying on business as Millers, under
the style of "Thornton, Smith, and Firth," is this day
dissolved.

Dated 3rd September, 1869.
W. BROOK SMITH.
J. C. FIRTH.

Witness—Noah Wood.

THE Partnership heretofore carried on by D. B.
Thornton and J. C. Firth, as Millers, under the
style of "Thornton, Smith and Firth," in the Pro-
vince of Auckland, New Zealand, has this day been
dissolved by mutual consent.
Dated 14th June, 1875.
D. B. THORNTON.
J. C. FIRTH.

Witness to D. B. Thornton's signature—Chas. T.
Coates, St. Petersburg.
Witness to J. C. Firth's signature—J. H. Smith.

WITH reference to the above notices, the business
will be carried on under the old style of
"Thornton, Smith, and Firth," by the undersigned.
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J. C. FIRTH.