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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 265.Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.

Place or Port.

Nature of Measures.

Date.

Reference to Govern- ment Noti-

fication.

Orissa.

Plague Regulations imposed in Orissa Ports against arrivals

from Hongkong.

18th April, 1913. No. S. 110.

Burmah.

Hongkong declared a Plague-infected port.

18th April, 1913. No. S. 111.

Chittagong.

Regulations for the prevention of the introduction of Plague

by sea enforced against arrivals from Hongkong.

18th April, 1913. No. S. 112.

Netherlands- Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the

India.

following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily prohibited :-(1) wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal. (2) rags. Re- fuse of new goods coming direct from the weaving-mills, from workshops where apparel is made or from bleaching- establishments, artificial wool, and cuttings of new paper, are not considered as rags.

Quarantine up to 21 days according to the state of health on board the ships but subject to exemption on production of certificates legalised by the Netherlands Consul General at Hongkong.

23rd May, 1913. | No. S. 147.

Singapore.

Hongkong declared an infected port on account of Plague.

18th July, 1913. No. S. 217.

No. S. 266.-Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st August, 1913, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks:-

BANKS,

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

$

$

6,840,287

5,000,000

21,473,694

15,000,000

855,661

252,000*

TOTAL,....

S

29,169,642

20,252,000

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, -

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,........

* Securities with Crown Agents £73,000.