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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 137. Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st May, 1917, as certi- fied by the Managers of the respective Banks :-

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

6,844,777

5,000,000*

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,

22,717,903

18,000,000

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,

1,122,070 ⠀⠀

550,000†

TOTAL.

30,684,750

23,550,000

*

Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £150,000.

† Securities with the Crown Agents £70,000.

No. S. 138. The following statement of the securities lodged with the Crown Agents by the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, against their notes in circulation, ist published for general information under Section 5 of the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 of 1911):-

Amount,

Nominal Valne.

Price when deposited.

Latest market price.

Security.

44% War Loan,

£70,000

No. S. 139.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.

Place or Port.

Nature of Measures.

Date.

Reference to Govern. ment Ncti- fication.

Dairen.

India.

Quarantine restrictions against all ships arriving at Dairen or Port Arthur from or by way of Canton and all other South-China ports.

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, and 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 newspaper, 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.

31st August, 1916. No. S. 194.

27th April,

No. S. 108.

1917.

8th June, 1917.

**

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Colonial Secretary.