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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1905.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 348.

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Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Tuesday, the 20th day of June. 1905, for the erection of a Market at Mong-kok-tsui.

No work will be permitted on Sundays.

For form of tender, specification and further particulars apply at the Public Works Office. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st June, 1905.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 349.

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Tuesday, the 20th day of June, 1905, for forming and kerbing streets in the vicinity of the proposed new Mong-kok-tsui Market on Kowloon Inland Lot 1163 in Kowloon.

No work will be permitted on Sundays.

For form of tender, specification and further particulars apply at the Public Works Office. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

By Command,

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st June, 1905.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 350.

Notice is hereby given that the CROMPTON AND KNOWLES LOOM WORKS, a Corporation organised under the Laws of the State of Massachusetts, with its principal place of business at Worcester, in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, one of the United States of America, having, by assignment, become entitled to Mr. EDWARD HOLLINGWORTH'S Letters Patent of the 29th April, 1904, registered in this Colony in respect of an Invention for Improvements in weaving or forming selvage edges on Straw or like matting and in means employed therein have been, in pursuance of an Order by His Excellency the Governor in Council, registered as the proprietors of the said Patent.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd June, 1905.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 351.

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary,

The following Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st May, 1905, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks, are published.

By Command,

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd June, 1905.

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

$

$

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

3,260,310

2,200,000

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, .. ...........

15,567,847

11,000,000

National Bank of China, Limited,

135,719

100,000

TOTAL

18,963,876

13,300,000

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