AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4459, 20 April 1883, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

■ ■ =";.. ,;■'■=;■ ''\-_ [-- ■■>•■'■" .-•■' - This day. ■ 1 The total private bequests of Costley's". only amount to £39C0, so that the balance of the immense estate, rallied at £135,003, goes to jthe charities:. Thei several be« quests are to be .called; Costley's bequests,' 7: ; k .■;•,>■■■•.,.,=■.. ■ -■■: , ■■ ■ ■ A married woman named Durnall has been missing since Monday last. She left a letter stating that her body would be found amongst the rocks. , There are now 4000 sheep on board of the Mataura. The complement is 6500. i. The City Council have decided to apply t0,..': the : Government for the remission of the legacy duty on the Costley bequests. Two barques are signalled, supposed to be the Auriga and George Bewley from London. ; - Montague Smith, of Gisborne, has purchased the steeplechase mare Perfume for£l6o.-.' '■' .■ „,''■ ' ■[ ''■. ■' Bank of NW Zealand Halfyearly Meeting. The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New: Zealand,was held to-day. The DW rectors' report showed that the nettprofit for the half-year ended 31st March—after appropriation for known bad and^oubtful debts, and in the reduction of bank premises and furniture accounts —amounts to £89,525 18s Id. The b'alarice from last half-year was £9,925 9s lid, and the total amount available for division £99,451 8s as followß:—Payment of dividend at the. rate of 10 perlcent,;per,annum, £50,000; bonus of r ss per share, equal,to 5 per cent, per "ann^m, *£25,600; balance to profit and Jossi 'new account, £24,451 8s — ''£?ss&■ BsP- Balance Sheet; to March ,31st. ....London, January 31st—Liabilities : Capital paid up, £1,000,000; Keserve fund, £600,000; Notes in circulation, £562;564;; Bills payable in circulation, £1,889,600 17^'lOd; Deposits and other liabilities,; £8,580,930. 13s lOdj Balance to and V: £99,451 ASs^otai, ''■■ £12,532,546 19s Bd^ '. kssets---Coin arid cash balancer at {Bankers, £1,157,175 3s 4d ; Money At* fshort call in' London, £225,720; Bull ion" in hand and in ; transitu, £159,232 14s Hd ; Government securities, £3 r l6 f 777 ss; t bills receivable ; and securitie^ih"L^dbn;%2,o42;229 17s: 7d -"bills discounted and other debts due lo'the Bank, £8,389,802 9s lOd; landed; property, Bank premises, etc.,£242,609 9s -•£12,532,546 19s Bd. The Chairman, the J. Williamsori, in moving the adoption of the report, predicted that money would be easier shortly, although muchcould not be expected in the coming six months, He thought the frozen moat. .3trad^'#pjil4 increase""the Value 'of improved land, and lead to the settlement of waste lands. The reports were adopted, md the meeting adjourned.