Oct. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2381

Reserves in the Town of Cambridge West, Auckland Land District, for Lease by Public Tender.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 6th October, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders will be received at this office up till 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the 10th December, 1902, for leases of the undermentioned reserves, for the term and at the upset annual rentals stated below.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Town of Cambridge West.

Term of lease, fourteen years.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The lessee shall have no right to compensation either for any improvements that may be placed upon the land or for any other cause.

2. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land during the term of the lease without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first obtained.

3. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds or plants on the land comprised in the lease, and shall with all reasonable despatch remove, or cause to be removed, all gorse, sweetbriar, broom, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

4. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free from all deductions whatsoever.

5. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotments, Southland, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 30th September, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned village-homestead allotments will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” at this office, on Monday, the 24th day of November, 1902.

In the event of more than one application being received for the same section on the same day, priority of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—INVERCARGILL HUNDRED.—TISBURY VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.
First-class Land.

• Weighted with £4 12s., valuation for fencing.
  Situated in Seaward Bush, near Tisbury Railway-station. Bush land; soil fair; land nearly level, and well watered.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserve in Marlborough for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 7th October, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserve will be offered for lease by public auction, at the Courthouse, Kaikoura, on Wednesday, the 26th day of November, 1902, for the term and at the upset annual rental stated below.

SCHEDULE.
SECTION 203, Block X., Mount Fyffe Survey District: Area, 29 acres; upset annual rental, £15. Term, fourteen years.

The land is limestone loam, upon limestone subsoil; is all in grass, and has permanent water; situated on South Coast Road, about one mile from Kaikoura Post-office.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. Possession will be given on the 1st January, 1903.

2. The lessee shall have no right to compensation either for any improvements that may be placed upon the land or for any other cause.

3. The lessee shall have no right to sublet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any portion of the land during the term of the lease, without the written consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands first obtained.

4. The lessee shall destroy all rabbits on the land, and shall prevent their increase and spread to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

5. The lessee shall prevent the growth and spread of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds or plants on the land comprised in the lease, and shall with all reasonable despatch remove or cause to be removed all gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or other noxious weeds or plants, as may be directed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

6. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance, free from all deductions whatsoever.

7. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture in case the lessee shall fail to fulfil any of the conditions of the said lease within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to be fulfilled.

C. W. ADAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 29th September, 1902.

LIABILITIES.

| Notes in circulation | £ 715,070 18 5 |
| Bills in circulation | 21,687 9 1 |
| Balances due to other Banks | 14,364 6 7 |
| Government deposits | 970,447 14 3 |
| Other deposits— | |
| Not bearing interest | 3,707,409 11 3 |
| Bearing interest | 3,898,615 1 2 |
| Total average liabilities | ..£9,327,595 0 9 |

ASSETS.

| Coined gold and silver and other coined metal | £ 996,265 10 9 |
| Gold and silver in bullion or bars | 99,099 17 1 |
| Notes and bills of other Banks | 43,524 0 5 |
| Balances due from other Banks | 1,631 8 11 |
| Landed property | 108,037 0 8 |
| Amount of all other securities— | |
| 1. Notes and bills discounted | 778,307 11 0 |
| 2. Colonial Government securities | 578,131 5 0 |
| 3. Other funded securities | .. |
| 4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) | 3,399,853 1 9 |
| 5. Securities not included under the above heads | 1,359,193 11 1 |
| Total average assets | ..£7,364,043 6 8 |

4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £2,000,000. (Interest, £40,000 per six months, paid May last.)
Capital payable by shareholders, £500,000.
Rate of last dividend declared to the shareholders, 5 per cent.
Amount of the last dividend declared, £21,366.
Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such dividend, £23,474 7s. 4d.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of October, 1902.

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