1906
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 90

Notice to Mariners, No. 18 of 1897.

TEMPORARY MARK-BUOYS, MAHANGA BAY, PORT NICHOLSON.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 18th October, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that, on the 16th November, 1897, and for a period of about one month afterwards, the Defence Department will lay a number of small mark-buoys, painted red, between Mahanga Bay and Ward Island. This work will be commenced at 8 a.m. on each day, except Saturdays and Sundays, and will be discontinued at 5 p.m., when the buoys will be removed. These buoys will be placed within an area of about 1,000 ft., beginning in the vicinity of Mahanga Bay Wharf, and will be gradually worked towards Ward Island. A steam-launch or cutter will direct mariners on which side to pass, if necessary.

Chart, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 1423; "New Zealand Pilot," Chapter iv., pages 175 to 179.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Settlement of Claim for Compensation under "The Mining Act, 1891."

Mines Department,
Wellington, 14th October, 1897.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the 153rd section of "The Mining Act, 1891," it is hereby notified that the claim for compensation enumerated in the Schedule hereto, in respect to a Proclamation issued under the hand of His Excellency the Governor and the Public Seal of the Colony on the 1st day of February, 1897, declaring that No Town Creek, with its tributaries, in the Provincial District of Nelson, shall be a watercourse into which tailings, &c., may be discharged, has been settled by agreement, as provided by the said Act.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

SCHEDULE.
No TOWN CREEK.

Member of the House of Representatives elected, City of Dunedin District.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 18th October, 1897.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 28th day of September, 1897, for the election of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of City of Dunedin, and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that

ALEXANDER SLIGO

has been duly elected to serve as a member for the said district.

HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.

Officiating Ministers for 1897.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 20th October, 1897.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Joseph Campbell, M.A., F.G.S., F.C.S.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of "The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894."

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

Frank Coffill Catlin, late of Quirindi, in the Colony of New South Wales, settler. Filed on the 21st day of September, 1897.

Duncan Graham Chalmers, late of Whau Asylum, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 24th day of September, 1897.

Thomas Woodward, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 7th day of October, 1897.

Rees William Walters, late of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, upholsterer. Filed on the 7th day of October, 1897.

Gertrude Raven, late of Palmerston North, in the Provincial District of Wellington, married woman. Filed on the 7th day of October, 1897.

William Taylor, late of Martinborough, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 7th day of October, 1897.

George James Wood, late of Linwood, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, plumber. Filed on the 7th day of October, 1897.

Mary Benn, late of Cheviot, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, widow. Filed on the 7th day of October, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, within the Colony of New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 30th September, 1897.

LIABILITIES.

Notes in circulation .. .. .. £543,217 10 9
Bills in circulation .. .. .. 15,807 0 1
Balances due to other Banks .. .. .. 13,125 17 3
Government deposits .. .. .. 725,151 2 3
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. .. 2,481,226 12 1
Bearing interest .. .. .. 3,234,058 10 2

Total average liabilities .. £7,012,586 12 7

ASSETS.

Coined gold and silver and other coined metal .. .. £787,922 2 0
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. 81,776 7 10
Notes and bills of other Banks .. 29,980 12 3
Balances due from other Banks .. 4,877 1 9
Landed property .. 155,250 14 4
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. .. 895,114 13 11
2. Colonial Government securities .. .. 778,248 18 5
3. Other funded securities .. .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) .. 2,899,316 11 11
5. Securities not included under the above heads .. *2,557,948 16 8

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   Total average assets .. £8,190,435 19 1

• This includes an average of £1,549,516 held in Assets Realisation Board Debentures.

4 per-cent. guaranteed stock, £2,000,000.
Preferred shares subscribed for by the Government of New Zealand, £500,000.
Capital payable by shareholders, £500,000.
Reserve fund, £23,474 7s. 4d.
Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of October, 1897.

C. G. TEGETMEIER,
General Manager.

RICH'D. W. GIBBS,
Accountant.