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Westport Times, Volume 1, Issue 148, 21 January 1868, Page 2

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Wesfokt Times Office, January 20. The amount of Customs' Revenue received this day for Import Duties, was .£43 3s 7d. BANK RETURNS. fFrom the General Government Gazette, of the 11th insl.J BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. Statement ef the average amount of liabilities and assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in the colony, during the quarter ended 30th September, 1867 : —Liabilities.—Notes in circulation, £299,050 8s 9d; bills in circulation, £22,197 16s 7d; balances due to other Banks, £119,094 9s 8d; Government deposits, £141,026 18s lid ; other deposits not bearing interest, 659,319 4s 6d ; other deposits bearing interest, £367,301 15s lid. Total average liabilities, £1, 608,020 14s 4d. Assets.— Coined gold and silver and other coined metal, £330,229 Is Id; gold and silver in bullion or bars, £246,087 17s 5d ; notes and bills of other Banks, £7,799 6s 6d ; balances due from other Banks, £B5l 12s 9d ; landed property, £20,948 Is 4d ; amount sf all other secnrities —1, notes and bills discounted, £729,815 12s 9dj 2, Colonial Government Securities, £221,414 5s 9d; 3, other funded securities, nil; 4, debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad), .£805,499 6s Id; 5, securities not included ■under the above heads, £195,218 4s 3d. Total averago assets, £2,563,863 7s lid. Amount, of the capital stock paid up at the close of the quarter ended 30th September, 1567, £500,000; rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders, 17 per cent; amount of the last dividend declared, £42,500 ; amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such dividend, £207,064 3s Id. UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA.

Statement of the amount of the liabilities and assets of the Union Bank of Australia, in the colony of New Zealand, during the quarter ended 30th September, 1867: Liabilities.— Notes in circulation, .£127,712 3s lOd; bills in circulation, £19,8*1 15s lOd ; balances clue to other Banks, £lO3 2s 3d; Government deposits, £1,094 Gs 2d ; other deposits not bearing interest, £433,219 4s 8d; other deposits bearing interest, £327,076 3s Bd. Total average liabilities, £G10,079 16s od. Assets. —Coined gold and silver and other coined metal, £264,727 Os 6d ; gold and silver in bullion or bars, £97,721 10s sd; notes and bills of other Banks, £6,511 3s 7d ; balances due from other Banks, £18,788 2s 8d ; landed property, £13,122 7s; amount of all other securities—l, notes and bills discounted, £608,097 10s 7d; 2, Colonial Government Securities, £SCO ; 3, other funded securities, nil; 4, debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad), .£272,370 18s 6d ; 5, securities not included under the above heads, £2,601 9s sd. Total average assets, £1,241,'144 2s 8d ; amount of <the capital stock paid up at the close of the •quarter -ended 30th Juno, 1867, £1,250,000 ; a-ate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders, 17 per cent por annum; amount 'ot the 'last dividend declared, £106,250; amount of tho rcservocl profits at the time of such dividend, £508,017 4s lOd.