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Late Advertisements. T ABOUR AND ESTATE AQENCY, JLi DUNEDIN, ALWAYo TO THE FRONT. OR SALE, GAS LIMB. DsliTered on Railway Trucks, Dunedin Station, 23 per Ton. — A. Johnstone, Kensington. 263 THE COLONIAL BANK OF NEW ZK ALAND. Forty-second REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS To the HALF-YEARLY MEKTING OF THE PROPRIETORS To be held at the Bank, Princes street, Duueuin, Ou WEDNESDAY, 25th SEPTEMBER 1895. The directors beg to submit to tho Proprietors the iiccmnpauying balance sheet and statement of accounts for the h»lf-year ended 31st August last. The net profits for the half-year, after deduct- [ ing interest paid and accrued on fixed deposits. ; rebating bills undor discount, and charging all expenses of management, rent, Ac, amount I to £12,935 11 2 i To this has to be added balance from last half-year 8,700 15 6 £21,630 6 8 And there must be deducted land, [ Income, and note tax ... ... 1,656 810 Leaving available jGIit.QSO 2 10 Pending tho rfcfrult of negotiations opened by tho Bank of New Zealand for the purchase of this bank as and from the 31t<t August 1895, it is not the intention of the directors at present to deal with tho balance, but to adjourn the Gtneral Meeting on the 25th September until a date In October, by which timo the wishes of shareholdets as expressed at an emergency meeting fsho/tly to be called, and of which due notice will bo given) will be known. ! The directors regief; to aunouncc the death since tho last report of Mr Ilonry Rose. M.I.A.N Z., one of the bank's auditors.. To fill thevacancy until this meeting they (under o.la\iec 100 of the deed of settlement) appointed Mr G. L. Denniston. The Pleasant Point agency was closed on tbo ' 27th March 1895 GEO. M'LEAJST, Chairman. BALANCE SHKM 1 OF THE COLONIAL 1 BANK OF NFAV ZEALAND. ! As Xt 31st August 1895, including London I Office at 3lst May 1895. Dr. Capital. £2 paid up on 200,000 shares jE40»,000 0 0 Notes in circnla'ioji lt-7,367 0 0 Bills payaMo and other liabilities 457,887 14 7 Deposits 1,947,92113 5 Balances due to other banks ... 3 OSO X 7 Reserve fund 65,000 0 0 Profit and loss , - „. ... 19,980 210 £3,001,236 12 5 Cr. ! Coin, bullion, and cnslj balaucea at baukeis' £363,087 7 2 Money with London brokeraat call and short notice ... 45,060 0 0 £408,067 7 2 Notes of and balanceß due by other banks 9.E89 14 7 Government securities, consols, 4c 168,131 I 5 Remittances in transituaiid await* ing matin ity 548,702 4 4 Landed property and bank premiss 125,389 15 2 Bank furniture and stationery ... 9,717 1 2 Bills discounted, and all other debts due to tho bank 1,731.649 8 7 £3,001,236 12 5 Profit and Loss Account. Dr. To dividend at6perceut. per annum at 2St.h February 1895 £12,000 0 0 Cha-j?e-» forthehalf year, including rent, taxes, salaries, remuneration to directors and auditors, and all other expenses at head ofiicc, 30 branches, and 9 agencies 22,837 14 4 Land, income, and note tax ... 1,656 3JO Balance 19,980 2 10 £56,474 1 0 Cr. By balance profit; and loss at -Sth February 1895 £20,700 15 6 Gross profit for half-year (after making provision for bad and doubtful debts, interest paid and accrued on fixed deposits, and rebate on bills current) amounts t« 35,773 5 0 £56,474 1~0 Reserve Fond. Dr. To balance £65,M10 0 0 £65,000 0 0 Cr. By bn'nncc 28th February 1895 ...£65,000 0 0 ££5,000 0 0 GEO. M'LEAN. Chairman. H. MACKENZIE, General Manager. We have examined tho cash and bills on hand at head office, and compared the abstracts of balances from the various branches, and certify the foregoing statement to be in accordance therewith and correct. | WALTER HJSLOF, M.1.A.N.Z., \ _„,,„.„- G, L. DENNISTON, j- Auditors. Dunedin, 17th September 1895. We have examined tho abstract balance sheet of the Lomlon branch for the half-year ending 31st May 1896, and, having compared the same with the bcoks of the bank, find it to be in accoulance thoicwith. We have counted the cash aud stamps and gone over tbe bills on hand, and found the whole to be correct. We have al»o varified the securities held by your London bankers and compaiecl the bank pass books, and found them to Bgree. THOMSON, JACKSON, GOURLAY, and TAYLOR, C.A. Loc()-n, 13th July isp.s. 2ls Notice. READERS of OTAGO WITNESS, wherever situated, will greatly oblige by informing i the MANAGING DIRECTOR of any locality \ where they may be unable to Procure the ! PAPER, and naming aDy Reliable Person who would probably undertake ita sale. 24cay Missing Friends SAM HARDY (G.M.K.) ia faraestly requested to Return or Write Home. 263 WANTED, preeent ADDRESS oi R. WILLIAMS, lately at Middlemarch.Anyono knowing e_me will oblige by forwarding it to M. P., Box 176, P. 0., Duaedin. im