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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Civil Service Literary Prize.
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Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
Wellington, 20th March, 1880.

AN offer having been made to the Civil Service
Examination Board of a sum of £5 per annum,
for five years, to provide for prizes for the best essays
on the principles and practice of Parliamentary
Government, and cognate subjects, the Board an-
nounce that the subject for the present year shall be

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY
IN ENGLAND.

Prize to be competed for under the following con-
ditions:-

1. Competition to be open to all persons under the
   age of 25 years at this date who have passed either
   the Junior or Senior Civil Service Examination, and
   who are in the Civil Service at the time of competition.

2. The prize to be in books or money, at the option
   of the prize-taker.

3. Essays to be legibly written, and on one side of
   the paper only.

4. Essays to be delivered to the Secretary of the
   Civil Service Examination Board, Wellington, by the
   31st December, 1880.

5. No competitor to allow his name to appear on
   his essay, but to adopt a motto or cypher, which is
   also to be written on a sealed envelope containing
   the author's name, and attached to the essay.

6. The prize will not be awarded unless there is an
   essay which, in the judgment of the examiners, is
   of sufficient merit to entitle the author to receive it.

7. Competitors are advised to keep copies of their
   essays, as those sent to the Board will not be re-
   turned.

G. S. COOPER,
Chairman.

Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such
Dividend, £634,406 1s. 5d.
Dated at Auckland, this 17th day of April,
1880.
D. L. MURDOCH, Inspector.
GEO. WHITELAW, Inspector's Accountant.

STATEMENT of the average amount of the
Liabilities and Assets of the Union Bank of
Australia, within the Colony of New Zealand, during
the Quarter ended 31st March, 1880.

LIABILITIES.

• Notes in Circulation
• Bills in Circulation
• Balances due to other Banks...
• Government Deposits...
• Other Deposits-
  • Not bearing Interest
  • Bearing Interest
    Total average Liabilities

ASSETS.

• Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined
  Metal
• 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 Securities
  3. Other Funded Securities
  4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
     Debts abandoned as bad)
  5. Securities not included under the above
     heads
     Total average Assets

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter
ended 31st March, 1880, £1,500,000.
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders, 16 per
cent. per annum.
Amount of the last Dividend declared, £120,000.
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such
Dividend, £939,539 10s. 9d.
Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of April,
1880.
A. JACKSON, Manager.
WM. JAMIESON, Accountant.

STATEMENT of the average amount of the
Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, within
the Colony, during the Quarter ended 29th March,
1880.

LIABILITIES.

• Notes in Circulation
• Bills in Circulation
• Balances due to other Banks...
• Government Deposits
• Other Deposits-
  • Not bearing Interest
  • Bearing Interest
    Total average Liabilities

ASSETS.

• Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined
  Metal
• 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 Securities
  3. Other Funded Securities
  4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
     Debts abandoned as bad)
  5. Securities not included under the above
     heads
     Total average Assets

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter
ended 29th March, 1880, £1,000,000.
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders, equal
to 15 per cent. per annum.
Amount of the last Dividend declared, £73,515 15s.

STATEMENT of the average amount of the
Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New
South Wales, in the Colony of New Zealand, during
the Quarter ended 31st March, 1880.

LIABILITIES.

• Notes in Circulation
• Bills in Circulation
• Balances due to other Banks...
• Government Deposits...
• Other Deposits-
  • Not bearing Interest
  • Bearing Interest
    Total average Liabilities

ASSETS.

• Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined
  Metal
• 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 Securities
  3. Other Funded Securities
  4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
     Debts abandoned as bad)
  5. Securities not included under the above
     heads
     Total average Assets