NEW ZEALAND GAZETTES.

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1721, 6 September 1862, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTES.

Gazettes of the date 20th and 2;ird of August have been published, and contain among other matter the Governor’s acceptance of the resignation of the lion. Francis Dillon Bell holding the offices of Colonial Treasurer and Commissioner of Customs, and that of the hon. Walter 15. 1). Mantcll, holding the offices of Postmaster-General and Secretary for Crown Lands. The appointment of the hon. Header Gilson Wood to the office vacated by Mr. Bell, and that of the hon. Crosbie Ward to he Postmaster-General also appear. The resignation of the hon. Thomas 15. Gillies, holding the office of Attorney-General, has likewise been accepted, and the hon. Henry Sewell, M.L.C., if} gazetted to the vacant office. The hon. Alfred Domett is also appointed Secretary of Crown Lands. A proclamation appointing a special sitting of the Supreme Court to he held at Napier and also at Auckland on the 17th day of September for the despatch of civil business, is announced; also, a proclamation from his Excellency declaring “ that all loose letters received at any post office in.tins colony, from any other part of the colony, shall, if the same be not prepaid, he liable to a double rate of postage, payable by the person to whom the same shall be addressed.” Henry Clinton Salkcld Baddelcy has been appointed post master at Kapanga (Coromandel). The Gazette contains copies of a correspondence, and the rules and conditions adopted by Sir G. Lewis for regulating the supply of arms and ammunition to militia and volunteers corps in tins different colonies’ The copy of tut Act passed in Victoria permitting the passage, free of duty, through that colony of gold previously imported. r lhe returns ol the Custom’s revenue during the quarter ended 31st March, 1802 and the returns of the value of exports ami imports during the same period.

The following is the return of the Banks of New Zealand, New South Wales, and the Union Bank, in New Zealand, lor the quarter ended 30th June, 1802:—We find that in the Bank of New Zealand the total liabilities amount to £597,773 3s. lid., while the assets amount to £706,582 15s. lid. The amount of capital paid up at the close of the quarter, ended 80th June, amounted to £122,(597 12s. 6d. The rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders was £G per cent, per annum, and the amount £2370 125., the amount of the reserved profits at that period being £0097 ss. In the. Union Bank of Australia, within this colony, the gross liabilities (or the same period have been £979,879 os. sd. The corresponding assets, £1,118,80S Od. Gd., and the rate of the last dividend declared to shareholders, 14 per cent, per annum. Of the Bank of New South Wales, in New Zealand, the total average liabilities were, for the same quarter, £473,501 Os.-. assets, £695,355 35., the rate of last dividend declared to shareholders being 16 per cent, per annum.