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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4159, 20 July 1874, Page 4

Prospectus. PR 0 S P BO T U S OP THE COLONIAL BANK OB NEW ZEALAND. Capital. .. ... £2,000,000 In 400,000 shares of £6 each. To he offered to tho.Puhlic by a first issue of one-half, viz., 20,000 shares, To he 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 £3.00,000 paid-up capital at 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 nut 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. Tolmie, M.H.B. B. 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 Cormaclc, of Morrison and Company, Blue Spur Captain J. T. Boyd B. C. 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. Pish, jun., Princes street W. M. Hodgkins, of Howorth and Hodgkins R. H. Leary, High street J. H. Harris, Solicitor William Eraser, of Strode and Eraser, 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 Eulton J. Brown, sen. C. R. Chapman, Barrister The Hon. James Paterson W. Gellibrand, Runholder D. E. Main, Barrister-at-Law W. J. Burton, Burton Bros. J. R. Jones, Harbor Steam Company Charles Zeile, Rattray street James Hazlett, Merchant, Clyde John Reid, Elderslie, Oamaru . Robert Gillies, Gillies and Street Donald Reid, M.H.R. C. R. Howden, Distiller, Cumberland street Charles Reid, Princes street R. Glendining, Ross and Glendining Dr. Edward Hulme John Douglas, Runholder, Mount Royal J. T. Wright, Wright, Stephenson and Co. G. E. Reid, Stafford street R. Paterson, Paterson and McLeod R. M. Robertson, Distiller, Rattray street James Shand, M.P.C. William Barron, Barron, Grant and Co. William Park, Park and Curie George Elliot Barton, Barrister-at-Law W. D. Murison, Editor “ Daily Times ” Charles De V. Teschemaker, Runholder, Taipp, Oamaru David Proudfoot, Railway Contractor Horace Bastings, M.P.C. W. North, North and Scoullar Hugh McNeil, Briscoe and Co. John Bathgate, R.M. E. B. Cargill, Cargills and McLean H. J. Walter, Manse street R. K. Murray, Rattray street James Black, Black and Thomson Marcus Hume, Dunedin James Allen, M.P.C., East Taieri William Snow, Outram, West Taieri A. J. Smith, Contractor Thomas Birch, Merchant Ed. Herbert, Mayor of Lawrence Robert Pritchard, Arrow Walter Inder, Naseby ,M. J. Malagan, Queenstown Job Wain, Manse street James Eulton, R.M. John Scanlan, Scanlan Brothers, Princes street William Kennedy, Rattray street The Hon John M'Lean, Redoastle, Oamaru With power to add to their number. Bankers : The Union Bank of Australia. The Bank of Australasia. Ist. The great want of a thoroughly Colonial Banldng Institution for the whole Colony of 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 steji, it is proposed to offer to the people of this Colony one of the nominal capital or 200,000 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 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 bo appointed to guide the operations of the Bank ; and also that a Board of qualified Directors shall he 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 be opened in Dunedin, in suitable Premises already secured under offer, and thereafter Brandies will gradually be opened in the Chief Centres of Settlement throughout the Colony. sth. It will ho the chief aim of the Promoters of this Bank to aid and conserve alike the interests of the whole community in this Colony. The Mercantile, Trading, Pastoral, Agricultural, Mining, Artizau, and Laboring Classes will each have fair treatment and support from the Colonial Bank. To the Mining Interest, special attention will ho given, with a desire to acquire for the Miners the Mint value of their Gold, whether in large or small quantities, and until such value can he ascertained, a liberal advance will he made upon any gold deposited for the purpose of coinage. 6th. It is not intended by the Promoters that this Bank shall purchase Gold, hut merely ho prepared to make advances upon it until realised, in the same manner that it will he ready to do upon wool, grain, or other produce. 7 th. The amount of New Zealand money in the hands of the three Banks from Australia trading in the Colony on the 31st December last, as shown hy then* several, returns fui’nished to the Government, appear thus, without giving odd numbers Deposit. Circulation. Total. Union Bank of Australia ... Bank of New South Wales Bank of Australasia £870,000 £123,425 £993,425 560.000 104,849 664,849 193.000 38,962 231,962 Showing a total of ... £1,890,236 or nearly two millions of money belonging to colonists entrusted to Boards of Directors in Melbourne or Sydney to control or manipulate as it. may please their tastes ; or as it may oe convenient for the good of commerce in Victoria or Now South Wales ; or for the beneficial regulation of their exchange operations in those Colonies.