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PROSPECTUS OF THE 'COLONIAL BANK OF NEW. ZEAL AND. Capital ... £2,000,000, In 400,000 shares of £5 each. To bo offered to the public by a first issue of one-half, viz., 200,000 shares, to be called up as follows : Five Shillings on application; 10s on allotment; 5s two months after allotment; 5s four months after allotment; 5s six months after allotment; which will amount to £300,000 paid-up capital at the end of six months. No further call will be made for twelve months after the Bank is first opened in Dunedin, and future calls will not exceed share, to be made, if required, at intervals of not less than three months thereafter. Provisional Committee. The Hon. Matthew Holmes W. A. Tolmie, M.H.R. E. Oliver, M.P.C., Oliver and Ulph Dr Webster, M.P.C., Runholder J. M. Ritchie, Russell, Ritchie, and Co. Charles Nichols, Dalgety, Nichols, and Co. James Rattray, Dalgety, Nichols, and Co, J. L. Butterworth, Butterworth Bros. Robert Wilson, R. Wilson and Co. Keith Ramsay, Jetty-street George M. Bell, Runholder, Southland John Cormack, of Morrison and Company, Blue Spur Captain J. T. Boyd . B. C. Haggitt, Provincial Solicitor Alexander Burt, A. and T. Burt 0. S. Reeves, M.P.C. James Marshall, Marshall and Copeland James Copeland, Cumberland-street W. J. M. Larnach, Guthrie and Larnach Daniel Campbell, Great King-street H, S. Fish, jun., Princes-street W. M. Hodgkins, of Howorth and Hodgkins R. H. Leary, High-street J. H. Harris, Solicitor William Fraser, of Strode and Fraser, Runholders J. Logan, Runholder Walter Miller, Runholder J. A. Connell, of Connell and Moodie W. D. Stewart, Barrister M. Price, Dunedin J. S. Webb, Webb and Fulton J. Brown, sen. 0. R. Chapman, Barrister The Hon. James Patterson The Hon. John M'Lean, Redcastle, Oamaru W. Gellibrand, Runholder D. F. Main, Barrister-at Law W. J. Burton, Burton Brothers J. R. Jones, Harbour Steam Company Charles Ziele, Rattray-street James Hazlett, Merchant, Clyde John Reid, Elders!ie, Oamaru Robert Gillies, Gillies and Street Donald Reid, M.H.R. C. R. Howden, Distiller, Cumberland-street Charles Reid, Princes-street

K. Glendinning, Rosa and Glendinning Dr Edward Hulme John Douglas, Runholder, Mount Royal J. T. Wright, Wright, Stephenson and Co. G. F. Reid, Stafford-street R. Paterson, Paterson aud M'Leod R. M. Eobertson, Distiller, Rattray-street James Shand, M.P.C. William Barron, Barron, Grant, and Co. William Park, Park and Curie George Elliott Barton, Barrister-at-Law W. D. Murison, Editor Daily Times Charles de V. Teschemaker, Runholder, Taipo, Oamaru David Proudfoot, Railway Contractor Horace Bastings, M.P.C. W. North, North and Scoular Hugh M'Neil, Briscoe and Co. John Bathgate, R.M. E. B. Cargill, Cargills and M'Lean ' H. J. Walter, Manse-street R. K. Murray, Rattray-streefc James Black, Black and Thomson Marcus Hume, Dunedin James Allan, M.P,C, East Taieri William Snow, Outram, West Taieri A. J. Smyth, Contractor Thomas Birch, Merchant Ed. Herbert, Lawrence Robert Prit'chard, Arrow Walter Inder, Naseby M. J. Malaghan, Queenstown Job Wain, Manse-street James Fulton, R.M. John Scanlan, Scanlan Brothers, Princea-street William Kennedy, Battray-street Edmund Smith, Dunedin Savings Bank George Proudfoot, Railway Contractor C. W. Flexman, Wool Merchant John Macgregor, C.E. W. H. Cutten, late Commissioner of Crown Lands John Reid, of Corner Bush, Merton Gilbert Matheson, of Matheson Brothers, Dunedin Henry Obeli, Runholder, The River, Waikouaiti. With power to add to their number.

Bankers. The Union Bank of Australia The Bank of Australasia. PROSPECTUS. Ist. The great want of a thoroughly Colonial Banking Institution for the whole Colony of New Zealand having long been felt, it has been determined by the Provisional Committee to supply the same by placing before the public the present, carefully-considered scheme, with tho full confidence that it will meet with very genoral support. 2nd. Asa lirst step, it is proposed to offer to the people of this Colony one-half of the nominal capital, or 209,000 shares, in fair proportions to each of the Provinces throughout New Zealand, on the basis of the respective populations of each Province, reserving the other half to be disposed of hereifter, as the rapid progress of the Colony may demand and shareholders may decide ; but in no instance will any of tho remaining shares be offered for sale out of the Colony without having first been offered to the colonial holders, nor will any but a New Zealand Register be kept. 3rd. It is intended that the Head Office of the