JULY 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1425

Time and Place for the First Meeting of the Contributors to the Pahiatua Hospital appointed.

Charitable Department,
Wellington, 19th July, 1900.

H IS Excellency the Governor has, in terms of section 49 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” appointed Friday, the 10th day of August, 1900, at 12 o'clock noon, to be the time, and the Borough Council Chambers, Pahiatua, to be the place, for the first meeting of the contributors to the Pahiatua Hospital.
W. C. WALKER,

Notice to Mariners No. 38 of 1900.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1900.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Board of Trade, London, are published for general information.
WM. HALL-JONES.

CHINA SEA, ETC.

China.
GUTZLAFF Lt.-H.—The erection of a new Lt.-H. will shortly be commenced, and during a certain stage of the work the present lt. (30° 49' N., 122° 10' E.) will be obsc. from W.S.W. ½ W. to W. ⅓ S. When this occurs a F. white lt. is to be exh. from the ern. side of the new Lt.-H. June.

Formosa.

KELUNG HARB.—On 1st April, 1900, a F. lt., showing white from S. 28° E., through S., to S. 3° W.; red from S. 3° W. to S. 9° W., over Arase (Audacious Rks.); and white from S. 9° W., through W., to N. 12° W.; elev. 133 ft., R. 15 miles, was to be exh. from a white Lt.-H., 28 ft. high, in 25° 9¼' N., 121° 44½' E., on Image Pt. (Banjintaibi), W. side of entr. to the harb. Also, a fog siren, sounding 2 blasts, each of 2 secs. dura., with an interval of 4 secs. between, at intervals of 50 secs., was to be est. at the Lt.-H. June.

TAMSUI HARB.—Considerable changes have taken place in the shoal parts extending from both sides of the harb. May.

Notice to Mariners No. 39 of 1900.

SUBMARINE CABLE, MOTUIHI-AUCKLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 25th July, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that a telegraph-cable has been laid down between the south end of Motuihi Island and a point on the mainland about a mile west of Howick Wharf. Masters of vessels should not anchor where their anchors would be likely to foul the cable.
WM. HALL-JONES.

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

Mines Department,
Wellington, 16th July, 1900.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the 153rd section of “The Mining Act, 1891,” it is hereby notified that the claims 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 29th day of June, 1900, declaring that the Anatoki and Takaka Rivers and Landing Creek, with their tributaries, in the Land District of Nelson, shall be watercourses into which tailings, &c., may be discharged, have been settled by agreement, as provided by the said Act.
JAMES McGOWAN.
Minister of Mines.

SCHEDULE.

LANDING CREEK. |
Aaron Carne | Sections 32, 37, and 42, Block XII., Inangahua.
T. Bell | Sections 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 27, Block XII., Inangahua.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 24th July, 1900.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by
THOMAS ALEXANDER MUNRO, of Kurow, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.
JAMES McGOWAN.

Member of the House of Representatives elected, Waihemo Electoral District.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1900.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ issued on the 30th day of June, 1900, for the election of a Member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Waihemo, and by the indorsement on such writ it appears that
THOMAS MACKENZIE
has been duly elected to serve as the Member for the said district.
HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 22.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th July, 1900.

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:—

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend William Henry Corcoran.

[ERRATUM.—List of Officiating Ministers for 1900, Notice No. 1, Wesleyan Methodist Church : For Reverend Keal, Robert Purcell, read Keall, Robert Purcell.]

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 25th June, 1900.

LIABILITIES.
£ s. d.
Notes in circulation .. .. .. 715,076 12 4
Bills in circulation .. .. .. 20,217 9 10
Balances due to other Banks .. .. 16,413 16 9
Government deposits .. .. .. 790,374 4 9
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. .. 3,285,510 7 5
Bearing interest .. .. .. 3,235,716 4 1
Total average liabilities .. £8,063,308 15 2

ASSETS.
£ s. d.
Coined gold and silver and other coined metal .. .. .. .. 738,620 4 4
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. .. 64,375 4 7
Notes and bills of other Banks .. .. 41,805 10 8
Balances due from other Banks .. .. 1,309 4 6
Landed property .. .. .. 130,645 16 1
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. .. 754,221 11 2
2. Colonial Government securities .. 578,131 5 0
3. Other funded securities .. .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) .. .. 3,054,818 19 1
5. Securities not included under the above heads .. .. .. 1,815,748 9 6
   Total average assets .. .. £7,179,676 4 11

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 10th day of July, 1900.

JAMES EMBLING, General Manager,
RICH'D. W. GIBBS, Accountant.