DUNEDIN.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 30, 31 January 1877, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

."X vT fr ~C llt r ;> January^T* 7. The half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Bank will be .held on Wednesday. The net profit for the half year, after i deducting all .salaries and expenses of management, rent and other charges, and' after making fulloprovision ! f or bad and doubtfuL debts, and interest accrued on deposits, amount's ito> £10*264" 16s sd, to which add balance of profit and loss account carried dverifrom the, 30th June last £2,651 3s, making an availableMaitfordivisidn iof -£13^915 0.95.5d> as may be resolved on by the meeting. The Directors recommend that* it' shall be appropriated as follows : — To increase the reserve' ifund' (which ■> will , then /be £10*000),. £1,738 ; to payment of a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum »n; the vfpaid-up jcapital of the Bank on 31st December, £9,774 Is 2d ; £1, 152 7s 2d, the balance of £2,403 12s 3d, to be carried forward to the profit and loss new ;for; the. current half year. • ; . . ,. Tuesday. Initne, casepf . Robertson v. Ross the jury, after being' lb'cked up nearly- five ; hours, brought m a verdict for defendant.vJTJie verdict of .three-fourths of the/^fQpbsas taken under the Act passed last- session, as ,the jury were not unani-. moiis m all tKe issues, ' but were so on ; . the point that, they- were .not likely, to agree as a whole on all the questions involved m the. case,. , In addressing the jury His Honor said he was sure botiL. parties and the public would be exceedingly, obliged to , them .for the great pains and trouble they' had taken m this case. -- >, ■_??• • ;• A cowardly , attack was made last night on the Artillery Band near the. corner, of King and Union 1 streets. As the Band were playing and leading 'the Batallion they were assailed with a volley of stones. Sergt. R. Hogg/ of the Band was seriously, hurtj his nose being broken, and,- several members. of-, the Band, were struck, one on the back of the head.; \jrere saved by their ; instrumerfts, which, were more or less; damagecl. Et 6 one could tell whence the missiles came. ' In thel District Court James O'Brien,, late ■■-.- lecturer; for tite ;Americ.an JNtiii Diorama, sued Harry Stanley its manager for £200 damages,, sustained by Stanley's having assaultedJiim at Mossgiel m December last.' The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff m the sum of £60. .:■-.; ; r > The.ratable Talue of property m. the city ; ;of ■ Dunedin for 1877 is £226,817, showing ah increase of £17,168 over that.of the 'previous year. . . ;