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Otago Daily Times, Issue 60, 24 January 1862, Page 2

BANK OP NEW ZEALAND. AN AGENCY of this Bank has been established at Wnitaiiunn, under the management of Mr. Alfred Joiip". By order of the Boaru of Directors, ■ J F. LARKWORTHY, Interim Manager.*- • Dunedin, 23rd Dec, ISGI. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. A IST AGENCY of this Bank has been opened at WETHERSTONE'S, wader the Management of Mr. . r "'(N Kisslixo. By order of the "^oard of Directors. P. LARKWORTHY, Interim Manager. Dunedin, 23d Dec, 1801. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. THE THIRD INSTALMENT of £\, payable on Shares alloted in this Bank, in the Province of Otago, lias been fixed by the Directors to be paid at Dunedin, on tlie sth ot Maucu, 18G2. By order of the Board. F. LARKWORTHY, Interim Manager. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. ; Jncorperated by Act of the General Assemhly. Capital, £500,000. THE DUNE DIN BRANCH of this Bank was opened for the transaction of General Banking Business on Monday, the 2nd December, 1851. Itates of Interest, Discount, and Exchange, and general terms of business miry be ascertained upou application at the Banking1 Office, Rattray-street. • By order of the Board of Directors, P.- LARKWORTHY, • ■ ■ • Interim Manager. Dunedin, 23rd Dec, 1801.

The Island of Sahk.—Siirk is governed by feudal customs and peculiar laws. Its language contains many peculiarities of the oldest Norman French mixed up with a good deal of English and a sprinkling of other languages. There is no town or village to be seen ; no house can be built without consent of the feudal lord, and no one can live or even land on the island if lie object. But with all this apparent tyranny, matters, both 'public and private, appear to go on very smoothly. Once there was a threat of serious change, when a vein of silver was discovered in Little Sark ; but after tome £20,000 hart been swallov ed up in researches with but little satisfactory result, and the seigneur had been totally mined, the excitement died away, ami the inhabitant!, seem to have undergone wonderfully little iiltci.i'ion by the in-I cursion of Cornell miners. The ruined lord has I departu'l, and the seigneur who now holds suay over this little Barntyria Jinds more delight in improving his home, gardens, and j-iminds, and making the most of I lie bciuiiies ot hi- inland, than in {slaying at .government or Interfering with the pursuits of his subject-.. Tht'v scille their own disputes ir1 they have any ; and the little pnson that has been buUl leantly would eertamlv be an uncouifort.i!)le residence for the prisoner, since it lias hardly ever bjen inhabited, and must be fearfully damp and unwholesome — CurnluH Magazine. French Policy- i> rin. }«"oi{tii —The Paris correspondent of the Times siyt.:—When the King of Sweden was m England it was said th;>t his Majesty proposed, wh it he proposed during his visit to France—namely, the future formation of a great Seaiidinawan kingdom, according to the "system of nationalities ;'' but th.it the idea met witli much less f.ivouuible reception at ()*- ---bo^ie than at ht. Cloud. The royal warrant legulating the discharge of soldiers was published on W'edne-day at Chatham, ft stctes thil in order to cany out the intention of the warrant, Ihe M-ale of rates for soldiers purchasing their discharge, according to the War-office regulations, shall stand as follows ' Above five and under seven years' actual service ■with one distinguishing mark ; Europeans, cavalry .£23, infantry £18 ; blacks £11. Tlu sirae provision is to be introduced in the artillery scale of the finance regulations. Mr. Watts, the designer of the Warrior, is to he made a companion of the Bath,