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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 243. Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th September, 1917, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks :---

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

$

.

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

6,760,029 5,000,000*

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,

21,548,800

£8,000,000

1,148,670

550,000†

TOTAL,

29,457,499

23,550,000

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

† Securities with the Crown Agents £110,000.

No. S. 244.-The following statement of the securities lodged with the Crown Agents by the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, against their notes in circulation, is published for general information under Section 5 of the Mercantile Bank Note Issne Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 of 1911) :

Security.

Amount,

5% War Loan,

£110,000

Nominal Value.

Price when deposited.

Latest market price.

No. S. 245.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.

Place or Port.

Dairen.

Nature of Measures.

Date.

Reference to Govern- ment Noti- fication,

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

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

5th October, 1917.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary,

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