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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 219, 4 November 1874, Page 2

Land! Land! Land! £3,000. FTIHE undersigned having been commissioned -*■ to invest the sum of Three Thousand Pounds sterling in Land, persons having -properties for sale or lease, may communicate either personally or by letter. AH communications held strictly confidential. JOHN DRUMMOND, Civil Engineer, Surveyor. PANUITANGA. KIA rongo mai koutou nga Maori me nga Pakeha e whai whenua ana kua riro mai ki au e toru mano pauna (£3,000) hei hoko whenua. Ko nga tangata c hiahia ana ki te hoko whenua me tuhituhi mai ki au. Na Taramana, Kai-ruri Whenua.

NOTICE. MB. J. O’MEARA is authorized to collect, and to give receipts for, monies due to the Proprietor of this Journal. Amount of Customs duties collected at the port of Gisborne for the month ending 31st October, 1874: — £ s d Spirits ... ... ... 391 6 11 New Zealand distilled ... IU 15 5 Cigars ... ... ... 7 19 5 Tobacco ’ 11l 17 6 Wine ... ... ... 11 10 0 Ale in bottle 5 15 0 Tea 26 16 6 Cocoa, Chocolate, &c ... 4 40 Sugar ... ... ... 37 18 3 Goods by weight ... ... 36 19 6 Ad Valorem ... ... 50 6 0 Other duties ... ... 8 17 0 704 5 6 Fees under Arms Act ... 18 0 £705 13 6 A meeting of the directors of the Bank of New Zealand was held in Auckland on the 21st ult. The report showed the nett profit to be £45,702; balance from last account, £13,212. A dividend of 10 per cent was declared, and a bonus of 5 percent, making 15 per cent in ail for the year. The balance carried forward is £13,916. The report was adopted, and the Hon. James Williamson was elected a director, vice Taylor, resigned. Mr. Taylor was elected auditor.

Building Society.—The Gisborne Laud and Building Society’s advertisement in an other column, is significant of the fact that a considerable number here must be alive to the benefits reaped through such societies elsewhere, and the doubts of those who wavered as to its establishment are now removed. We are informed that the sum advertised as for loan will be open to any who may take up shares on or before evening of 16th inst.