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Evening Star, Issue 3513, 27 May 1874, Page 1

public Notices. PROSPECTUS OP The colonial bank of new ZEALAND. CAPITAL .... £2,000,000 In 400,000 Shares of £5 each. To be offered to the Public by a first issue of one-half, viz., 200,000 Shares, To be called up as follows : Fire Shillings on application; 10s on allotment ;Ss two months after allotment; os four months after allotment; 5s six months after allotment; which will amount to £300,000 paid-up Capital at end of six months. No further Call will be made for 12 months after the Bank ia first opened in Dunedin, and future Calls will not exceed 5s per Share, to be made if required, at intervals of not less than three months thereafter. Provisional Committee : The Hon. Mathew Holmes W. A. Tolmic, M.H.R. R. Oliver, M.P.0., Oliver and TJlph 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, Lutterworth 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. O. Haggitt, Provincial Solicitor Alexander Burt, A. and T. Burt O. 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, jim., Princes street W. M. Hodgkins, of Howorth and Hodgkins R. H, Leary, High street J. H. Harris, Solicitor Wm. Fraser, of Strode and Fraser, Runholders J. Logan, RunholderWalter Miller, Runholder J. A. Connell, of Connell and Moodio W. D. Stewart, Barrister M. Price, Dunedin J. S. Webb, Webb and Fulton J. Brown, sen. C. E. Chapman, Barrister The Hon. ■ James Paterson W. Gellibrand, Runholder D. F. Main, Barrister-at-Law W. J. Burton, Burton Bros. i J. E. Jones, Harbor Steam Company Charles Zcile, Rattray street James Hazlett, Merchant, Clyde John Reid, Elderslie, Oamaru 'Rol)ci-b-Oilliap,- CHWxot- o.nr] StrpAf Donald Reid, M. H. R. .... C. R. Howden, Distiller, Cumberland street Charles Reid, Princes street R. Glendininp, Ross and Glendining Dr Edward Hulme John Douglas, Runholder, Mount Royal . J. T. Wright, Wright, Stephenson, and Co. G. F. Reid, Stafford street R. Paterson, Paterson and M'Lcod R. M. Robertson, Distiller, Rattray street James Shand, M.P.C. Win, Barron, Barron, Grant, and Ce. Wm. Park, Park and Curie George Elliot Barton, Barrister-at-Law W. D. Mnrison, Editor * Daily Times’ Charles De V. Teschemaker, Runholder, Taipo, Oamaru David Proudfoot, Railway Contractor Edmund Smith, Dunedin Savings Bank Horace Bastings, M.P.C. W. North, North and Scoullar Hugh M'Neil, Briscoe and Co. John Bathgate, E.M. E. R. Cargill, Cargills and M‘Lean H. J, Walter, Manse street R. K. Murray, Rattray street James Black, Black and Thomson Marcus Hume, Dunedin James Allen, M.P.0., East Taieri William Snow, Outram, West Taieri A. J. Smyth, Contractor Thomas Birch, Merchant Ed. Herbert, Mayor of Lawrence Robert Pritchard, Arrow Walter Indor, Naseby M. J. Malaghan, Queenstown , Job Wain, Manse street James Fulton, R.M. John Scanlan, Scanlan Brothers, Princes street William Kennedy, Rattray street The Hon. John M‘Lean, Redcastle, Oamaru John McGregor, C.E. 0. W, Flexman, Wool Merchant Geo. Proudfoot, Railway Constructor W. H. Outten, late Commissioner of Crown Lands John Reid, of Corner Bffsh, Merton Henry Orbell, ■ Runholder, The River, Waikouaiti T. A. Clowes, of Ashcroft, Spence, and Co., Oamaru With power to add to their number. Bankers : The Union Bank of Australia. The Bank of Australasia.

Isk The great want of a thoroughly Colonial Banking Institution for the whole Colony of I New Zealand having been long felt, it has been determined by the Provisional Committee to supply the same by placing before the public the present carefully considered scheme, with the full confidence that it will meet with very general support. 2nd. As a first step, it is proposed to offer to the people of this Colony one-half of the nominal capital, or 200,000 shares, infairproSortions to each of the Provinces throughout Tew Zealand, on the basis of the respective. Sulations of each Province, reserving the erhalf to be disposed of hereafter, as the rapid progress of the Colony may demand and shareholders may decide ; but in no instance will any of the remaining shares be offered for sale out of the Colony without having been first 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 Bank shall be in Dunedin, and that a General Manager of high professional standing shall be appointed to guide the operations of the Bank ; and also that a Board of qualified Directors shall be elected from among the Committee to advise with the General Manager, and generally watch the interests of the whole Institution. , 4th. As soon as a sufficient number of Shares shall have been applied for to warrant the commencement of business, the Head Office will bo opened in Dunedin, in suitable Promises already secured under offer, and thereafter Branches will gradually be opened in the Chief Centres of Settlement throughout the Colony. sth. It will be the chief aim of the Promoters of this Bank to aid and conserve alike the inter ests of the whole ocmmnnity in this Colony. The Mercantile, Trading, Pastoral, Agricultural, lijiimng, Arfizan, and Laboring classes will each have fair and support from the Colo-