INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2263, 25 October 1889, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

♦ (PUB PBHSS A88O0IATIOM.) Wellington, Ootober 24. Saving Biuka returns show tba*: 5499 aooounts were opened and 3846 ol> Bed. The deposits amounted to £365 404, aad the withdrawals to £348,104. ./looey orders were laaoed to tbe value of £149,717, and paid to the va'ue of £138,635. Bank return* for qaa't?r ended Sep- I tember 30th :— Bank of New Zealand, Ma. bliitlea £4,767,791 3 i 6d, asjeta £7.125,026 4* 6d; Union Bank of Australia, £2 462,577 12d6d— £2,641 235 10i Id ; Bane' of Now Souh Wales, £1,785,189 lis lid— £2,337,255 17 . 7i ; Bank of Australasia, £1.089.050 lis Id— £l 402 936 15» 9d ; tfaiioual Bank of New Zaaland £1,248,959 7* 10d— £1,918.791 U 51 ; Ooionlai Bank of New Z«l(ind, £1,298 852 lOi lOd— £2,247721 7s sd. Total liabilities, £12 602,420 17s 6d ; total adsets, £17.672 96616 i9d i In order to test; the qaestlon whether butohers and bakers will be compelled to take out a license under the Hawkers By-laws for vending wares, the Corporation Inspector haa laid an Information against a suburban bntoher for vending without a license. The Free Pabllo Library fund has reaohed the sum of £1295. Timabtj, Ootober 24 James Olark, aged 53, who has a wife and nine children, and is a surfaceman on the railway at Makikihi has been missing slnoe yesterday morning, when he left home ooatless. He had been melancholy lately, and It is feared that he has made away with himself.