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BANKING HOUSES.
ter and Salford Bank and branches; Beckett & Co.,
Leeds ; Leeds and County Bank and branches ; Stour-
bridge and Kidderminster Bank and branches ; York
Union Bank and branches ; Carlisle City and District
Bank and branches; Coventry Union Bank, Samuel
Smith and Co., Derby; Huddersfield Banking Company
and branches ; Samuel Smith Brothers & Co., Hull ;
Nottingham and Notts Bank and branches ; Preston
Banking Company and branches; Whitehaven Joint
Stock Bank and branches ; Shefneld Banking Com-
pany and branches ; Bank of Bolton; Ulster Banking
Company and branches ; Provincial Bank of Ireland
and branches ; Bank of Ireland and branches ; North
of Scotland Bank and branches ; certain branches of
the Eoyal, Union, and Clydesdale Banks ; Bank of
Montreal and branches ; Union Bank of Australia
and branches; Bank of New Zealand and branches.
Negotiates bills on all places throughout the United
Kingdom and abroad, where there is a bank.
Clydesdale Bank, St. Vincent Place. — G. Eead-
aaan, manager; J. M. Cunningham, assistant-manager;
J. Cameron, secretary ; Jn. Harvie, assistant-secretary,
branch department ; Duncan Dewar, accountant ; F.
Johnston and D. Wilson, cashiers; J. Paterson, P.
Clark, and R. Carruth, inspectors of branches ; D. Mac-
Millan, D. Nicol, W. H. Smith, W. M-Kissock, and
W. Shanks, tellers. Draw on Barnetts, Hoares, &
Co., London ; London and Westminster Bank, London ;
and Clydesdale Bank, 32 Lombard Street, London ;
Liverpool Union Bank, Liverpool ; Manchester Union
Bank, (Limited) and branches ; Manchester and
Liverpool District Bank and Branches; W. W.
Brown & Co., bankers, Leeds; Birmingham and
Midland Bank; Sheffield Banking Company and
branches ; W. H. Lanibton & Co., Newcastle and
branches; Huddersfield Banking Co. and branches;
Hull Banking Co. and branches ; Halifax Joint
Stock Bank ; Carlisle City and District Bank and
branches ; West of England and South Wales Dis-
trict Bank, Bristol, and branches ; National Pro-
vincial Bank of England and branches; Moore &
Eobinson, bankers, Nottingham; Coventry Union
Bank ; Yorkshire Bank, Leeds, and branches ; Lan-
caster Banking Company and branches ; Bank of
Whitehaven (Limited); Whitehaven Joint Stock
Bank; Barnsley Bank; County of Gloucester Bank,
Cheltenham, and branches; Derby and Derbyshire
Bank and branches; Messrs Gurney & Co., Nor-
wich, and branches ; Royal Bank of Ireland, Dublin ;
National Bank and branches; Ulster Bank and
branches; Belfast Bank and branches; North of
Scotland Bank, Aberdeen, and branches ; Caledonian
Bank, Inverness, and branches ; certain branches of the
Bank of Scotland, City of Glasgow, National, Royal,
and Union Banks ; Bank of British North America
and branches ; Union Bank of Australia and branches ;
and Merchants' Bank of Canada and branches.
Commercial Bank of Scotland, 10 Gordon
Street. — Agents, Stuart and Sloane ; accountant, Wm.
Laidlaw; tellers, S. Peploe, G. Halliday. J. M'Laren,
T. S. Simpson, and Wm. Shiel. Draw on and are
agents for the following establishments: — viz., Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, London; Coutts &
Co., London ; Beckett & Co., Leeds ; Birmingham
Joint Stock Bank; Boyle, Low, Murray, & Co.,
Dublin ; Bradford Banking Company ; Bank of
Whitehaven; Bank of Westmoreland; Carlisle City
and District Bank and branches; Cumberland Union
Bank and branches; Halifax Joint Stock Banking
Company ; Hibernian Bank : Hull Banking Company
and branches ; Lambton & Co., Newcastle ; Cunliffes,
Brooks, & Co., Manchester and Blackburn; Leeds
and County Bank and branches ; Leicestershire Bank-
ing Company, Leicester, and branches; Liverpool Com-
mercial Bank ; Lloyd's Banking Company (Limited)
and branches; Manchester and Salford Bank; Man-
chester and Liverpool District Bank and branches ;
Munster Bank (Limited); National and Provincial
Bank of England and branches; The National Bank
(Ireland) and branches ; branches of the Bank of
Scotland ; North of Scotland Banking Company and
branches ; Northern Banking Company, Belfast, and
branches ; Parr's Banking Company, Warrington,
and branches ; Preston Banking Co. and branches ;
Eoyal Bank of Ireland, Dublin ; ShefSeld Banking
Company ; Stourbridge and Kidderminster Bank and
branches ; West Eiding Union Banking Company,
Huddersfield, and branches ; Wolverhampton and
Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolverhampton ;
Woods & Co., Berwick upon Tweed ; J & J. C.
Wright & Co., Nottingham ; York Union Bank and
branches ; Bank of British North America and
branches ; Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank ;
Woodall, Hebden, & Co., Scarborough; J. G.
King's Sons, New York; Commercial Banking
Company of Sydney, N.S.W. ; Union Bank of Aus-
tralia, Melbourne, and branches ; De Rothschild
Brothers, Paris; Oriental Bank, India, China, Aus-
tralia, Ceylon, and the Mauritius ; Natal Bank, Africa.
Negotiates bills on every place in Great Britain
and Ireland where there is a bank or banker ; issues
circular notes ; grants drafts or letters of credit on
the principal cities and towns of England and Ire-
land, and of Canada, and on New York and Paris;
grants drafts and letters of credit, and negotiates bills
on India, Australia, and New Zealand.
National Bank of Scotl.\nd, Queen Street.
— Michael Balmain, agent ; William Henderson,
accountant ; George Imrie, cashier. Draw on Glyn
& Co., the Union Bank of London, and Messrs.
Coutts & Co., London; and have correspondents in
all the principal towns in England and Ireland, on
the Continent, in the Colonies, and elsewhere abroad.
In addition to their own ninety-one branches, grant
drafts or letters of credit on most other places in the
United Kingdom. Also issue foreign credits and cir-
cular notes available in all parts of the world, and
negotiate bills in every place in Scotland, England,
Ireland and abroad, where there is a bank or banker.
London Office, 37 Nicholas Lane, E.C. , William
Strachan and James Cowan, agents.
National Secukity Savings Bank of Glas-
gow.— W. Meikle, actuary and cashier; G. H.
Mackay, accountant ; W. M'Kim, cashier. Offices —
99 Glassford Street, 36 Bridgeton Cross, 2 Dumbar-
ton Eoad, 47 New City Eoad, 27 Bridge Street. Open
every day from 10 to 3 ; evenings, Monday 6 to 8,
Wednesd.ay 6 to 8, Saturday 5 to 8. This bank
was established in 1836, under Act of Parliament,
" to provide for the safe custody and increase of small
savings belonging to the industrious classes." Indi-
viduals may deposit from Is. to £30 in a year.
Societies may lodge larger sums. Interest is allowed
at the rate of £3 per cent. The funds of the bank
amount to £2,978,070 7s. The number of deposi-
tors is 102,611. Government annuities, from £4 to
£50, may be purchased through this bank.
North British Bank, 124 Bath Street. — In-
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