j Prospectus. or nearly two millions of money belonging to colonists entrusted to Boards of Director* in Melbourne or Sydney to control or mani- pulate a9 it may please their tastes ; or as it may be convenient for the good of commerce in Victoria or New South Wales j or for tho beneficial regulation of their exchange opera- tions in those Colonies. Bth. The Promoters, in placing the fore- going facts before the people of this Colony, desire to point out the very great disadvan- tages that colonists are sure to labour under by lending — or rather giving — such a largo sum of money as stated above to foreign Banks, to be lent back to tho people here at very high rates of interest, and on more arbi- trary conditions. They, therefore, have no hesitation in suggesting the prudence and wisdom of the colonists keeping within thoir own domain the absolute control of their own moneys ; as by so doing they will moat effeo- tually destroy the risk in future monetary disturbances, which they have bad on more than one occasion to deplore in the past, brought about solely by some crisis that has occurred in one or other of the Australian Colonies, where the real interests of tho foreign Bank most strongly take root. 9th. It has been determined by the Pro- moters that the first issue of 200,000 Shares shall be conducted by Committees, to bo ap- pointed severally in the chief city in each Provinze ; and no Shares will be given or re- served to the Promoters 5 but each member of the Provisional Committee is willing to become a subscriber for tho number of Shares standing opposite to bis name. * 10th. It is proposed at the issue of Shareß above referred to that 5s per Share be paid on Application ; that 10s per Share be paid on Allotment; that a Call of 5s per Share bo made and payable two months after Allot- ment ; that a Second Call of 53 per Share be made and payable four months after Allot- ment; and that a Third Call of 5s per Share be made and payable six months after Allot- ment — making together 30s paid up per Share. 