JULY 25.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 817

STATEMEN T of the average amount of Liabilities and
Assets of the National Bank of New Zealand, Limited,
in the Colony of New Zealand, during the Quarter ended
30th June, 1889.

LIABILITIES.
Notes in circulation .. .. £ 103,651 16 11
Bills in circulation .. .. 3,865 6 6
Balances due to other Banks .. .. 5,454 4 6
Government deposits .. ..
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. 324,727 7 5
Bearing interest .. .. 636,793 9 11
Total average liabilities .. .. £1,074,492 5 3

ASSETS.
Coined gold and silver and other coined
metals .. .. 220,481 11 8
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. 13,737 14 4
Notes and bills of other Banks .. 4,155 19 4
Balances due from other Banks .. 18,685 18 4
Landed property .. .. 88,090 10 0
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. 319,848 2 7
2. Colonial Government securities ..
3. Other funded securities ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
   debts abandoned as bad) .. 1,172,338 10 4
5. Securities not included under the
   above heads .. .. 11,816 3 9
   Total average assets .. .. £1,849,154 10 4

Amount of the capital stock paid up at the close of the
quarter ended 30th June, 1889, £250,000.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders
(interim), 2\u00bd per cent. for half-year ended 30th September,
1888.
Amount of the last dividend declared, £6,250.
Amount of the reserved profits at 31st March, 1888 (date of
last published balance-sheet), £6,769 1s. 5d.
Dated at Dunedin, this 10th day of July, 1889.

J. STEPHENS, pro General Manager.

Native Land Court Notices.

"Native Land Court Act, 1880." -District of Hawke's Bay.
-Notice of Time and Place for inspecting Plans, Kaira-
kau Block.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1889.

WHEREAS at a sitting of the Native Land Court, held
at Hastings, on the 9th day of May, 1884, an order
was made subdividing the aforesaid block of land:
Now notice is hereby given that the plans and survey of
one of these subdivisions, called Kairakau No. 1, will be
deposited for inspection at the Native Land Courthouse, at
Hastings.

Now, if any person is desirous of making objections to the
boundaries of the aforesaid subdivision of the said block, as
defined by the said plan, he must give notice thereof to the
Court, stating the grounds of his objection. All such ob-
jections will be heard and determined at a sitting of the
Court, to be held at Hastings, on the 11th day of August,
1889.

H. G. SETH SMITH,
Chief Judge.

Sitting of the Native Land Court.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1889.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Land
Court will be held at Greytown, in the District of
Wairarapa, on the 18th day of September, 1889, for the
purpose of ascertaining what amount of compensation ought
to be paid to the Native owners of the land known as Section
60 of Block IX., Kopuaranga District, with respect to the
land taken under an Order in Council dated the 30th day of
October, 1888, and more particularly described in the
Schedule hereto, for the purpose of making a road in the
District of Masterton; and also for the purpose of ascertain-
ing who are the proper persons to receive such compensation,
and what land is affected by the said Order in Council.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate Area
of the Parcel
of Land required
to be taken.

Being
Portion of
Section No.

Situated
in Block No.

Situated in the
Survey
District of

A. R. P.
3 0 6

60 (Native
reserve)

IX.
(Native land)

Kopuaranga.

In the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same is
more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.
15983, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public
Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Welling-
ton, and thereon coloured red.

Survey Fees under "The Native Land Court Act, 1886."

S TATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and
Assets of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, during
the Quarter ended the 30th June, 1889.

LIABILITIES.
Notes in circulation .. .. £ 109,100 10 9
Bills in circulation .. .. 5,113 3 8
Balances due to other Banks .. .. 1,135 8 5
Government deposits .. ..
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. 358,553 16 10
Bearing interest .. .. 790,889 19 1
Total average liabilities .. .. £1,264,792 18 9

ASSETS.
Coined gold and silver and other coined
metals .. .. £ 148,656 5 2
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. 10,983 1 6
Notes and bills of other Banks .. 2,262 1 7
Balances due from other Banks .. 72,724 14 10
Landed property .. .. 95,272 5 5
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. 395,639 7 10
2. Colonial Government securities .. 103,489 19 7
3. Other funded securities ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
   debts abandoned as bad) .. 1,323,974 10 7
5. Securities not included under the
   above heads .. .. 27,221 9 11
   Total average assets .. .. £2,180,223 16 5

Amount of the capital stock paid up at the close of the
quarter ended 30th June, 1889, £400,000.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders, 7 per
cent.
Amount of the last dividend declared, £14,000.
Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such
dividend, £67,419 17s. 3d.
Dunedin, 10th July, 1889.

H. MACKENZIE, General Manager.
H. ADAM, Accountant.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:
DISTRICT OF WAIRARAPA.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1889.

NOTICE is hereby given that it has, under section
eighty-one of "The Native Land Court Act, 1886,"
been certified to this Court that there had become owing to
the certified Surveyor named in the first column in the
Schedule herein the sum set opposite his name in the second
column, by the Native owners of the lands mentioned in the
third column, for a survey of such lands made by the said
Surveyor.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

No.

First Column.
Name of Surveyor.

Second
Column.
Amount.

Third Column.
Name of Block.

1 A. J. Rawson .. .. 116 6 5 Patukawa and Waituhi

And further notice is hereby given that, at a sitting of the
Court to be held at Greytown, Wairarapa, on the 18th day of
September, 1889, orders will, unless cause be then shown to
the Court to the contrary, be made in favour of the said
Surveyor, charging the estate and interest of the respective
Native owners of the said lands with the whole or such
part of the said cost of survey so made for them as the
Court may deem fit.