BANK RETURNS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 151, 24 January 1868, Page 2

BANK RETURNS.

(From the General Government Gazette, of the 11 th imt.J BANK OV OTAGO. Statement of the average amount of liabilities and assets of the Bank of Otngo (Limited), at Dunedin, during the quarter ended 30th Ssplember, 1867:—Liabilities.—Notes in circulation, £30,841 17s 8d ; bills in circulation, £706 19s; balances due to other banks, £9273 1 Is 4d ; other deposits, not bearing interest, £60,582 6s; bearing interest, £33,017 2s 2d. Total average liabilities, £140,421 16s 2d. Assets. —Coined gold and silver, and other coined metal, £20,904 7s 7d; gold or silver in bullion or bars, £8277 12s 6d; notes and b.lis of other banks, £IO4O 4s 7d; balances due from other banks, £442 3s 10d; landed property, £18,392 lis 9d; amount of all other securities—l, Note and bills discounted, £80.930 19s 8d; 2, Colonial Government securities, £83,206 16s 2d ; 3, Other funded securities,nil; 4, Debts due to the bank, exclusive of debts abandoned as bad, 202,298Z 11 s 7d; 5, Securities not included under the above head, 5967Z 16s sd. Total average assets, 421,461?4s Id.—Amount of the capital stock paid up at the close of the quarter ended 30th September, 1867, 231.475Z; rate of the last dividend declared to the .shareholders, 6 per cent, per annum; amount of the last dividend declared, 7198Z 12s 2d; amount of the rt served profits at the time of declaring such dividend, 5958? 18s lOd.