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Western Australia.

London and Soath African Bank; at Valparaiso F. Huth Groning & Co.; San Francisco, Hellman Bros.; and the English Bank of Rio Janeiro.

The Union Bank of Australia has now (1878) established branches at Perth and York. It is, like the others, a Company, having a paid-up capital of £1,250,000, with reserve funds amounting to £460,000, and was established in 1837. The principal office is at 1 Bank Buildings Lothbury, London. Its Bankers in London the Bank of England, and Messrs. Glyn & Co., and in addition the National Provincial Bank of England, and the London and County Bank. It has also Agents at Liverpool, Lancaster, Carlisle, Manchester, Warrington, York, Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford, Boston, Birmingham, Nottingham, Dudley, Stafford, Northampton, Leighton-Buzzard, Cambridge, Colchester, Portsmouth, Southampton, Bristol, Glamorganshire, Gloucestershire, Chester, Devon, and Cornwall, in the latter at Penzance, Truro, Redruth, Launceston, and Hilston; the principal Banking Companies in Ireland, and Scotland; the Bank of British North America; the Chartered Banks of India, London, and China, Mid of India, Australia, and China; the Mauritius Commercial Bank; the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation; the Standard Bank of British South Africa; the New London and Brazilian Bank; the London and River Plate Bank; the London and San Francisco Bank, and at San Francisco as well, Messrs. Hellmari Bros. & Co., and the Anglo-Californian Bank; Messrs. F. Huth Gruning & Co., Valparaiso, and the Bank of Rotterdam. It has branches at Melbourne, and 12 other principal places in Victoria; at Sydney, Wagga Wagga, Hay, and Deniliquin in New South Wales; at Brisbane and