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crematoria and the conditions under which cremation may take place.
It prohibits the construction of such edifices near human habitation, highways or any consecrated ground and it prescribes penalties for breach of any regulations made under the provisions of the Ordinance.
Jous A. BUCKSILL Attorney Geneva).
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEpartment.
No. S. 36.-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 Ilongkong.
18th April, 1913. No. S. 110.
Burmah.
Hongkong declared a Plague-infected port.
Chittagong. Regulations for the prevention of the introduction of Plague
by sea enforced against arrivals from Hongkong.
India.
Netherlands Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the 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.
18th April, 1913. No. S. 111.
18th April, 1913. No. S. 112.
23rd May, 1913. No. S. 147.
No. S. 37.-Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st January, 1914, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks:-
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
ន
$
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
6,240,492
· 2,000,000*
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,.
21,872,888
15,000,000
949,016
525,000†
TOTAL,....$
29,062,396
17,525,000
*
Sterling Securities lodged with the Crown Agents in London for £166,666. 13s. 4d.—$1,666,666. Securities with the Crown Agents £68,040.
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