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Title or Description of Work.

Name of Author.

Name of Proprietor of the Copyright.

Date of Notice.

uot, date

of death.

Whether anthor alive; if

Date of Expiration of the Copyright.

Simon de Montfort

Alfred Hayes................

Methuen & Co., Ltd. Feb. 11, 1919.

Alive

Soldier Colonists, The

+

W. H. Warman...... Chatto & Windus...

Jan. 2, 1919.

Alive

Soul of the Soldier, The...

Thomas Tiplady

Methuen & Co., Ltd. Feb. 11, 1919.

Alive

Special Performances

William Pett Ridge Methuen & Co., Ltd. Feb. 11, 1919.

Alive

Tales of the Sorbonne...... Rachael Fox

Methuen & Co., Ltd. Feb. 11, 1919.

Alive

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Tales of Secret Egypt......

Sax Rohmer

Methuen & Co., Ltd. Feb. 11, 1919.

Alive

Tommy Smith Again at

the Zoo. Top Speed

Edmund Selous......

Methuen & Co., Ltd.

Feb. 11, 1919.

Alive

William Pett Ridge

Methuen & Co., Ltd. Feb. 11, 1919.

Alive

Twenty Poems from Rud-|

yard Kipling.

Rudyard Kipling

Methuen & Co., Ltd. Feb. 11, 1919.

Alive

Twixt Eagle and Dove

Vertebrate Palaeontology, Glossary and Notes on. Word Pictures of War.....

Edward Verrall Methuen & Co., Ltd. Feb. 11, 1919.

Lucas. Stanley A. Pelly

Alive

Methuen & Co., Ltd. Feb. 11, 1919.

Alive

W. F. de Bois Methuen & Co., Ltd. Feb. 11, 1919.

Maclaren.

Alive

No. S. 120. Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th April, 1919, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks :-

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

$

$

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

7,911,932

5,000,000*

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,

22,316,500

17,000,000

1,162,047

550,000†

A

TOTAL,

$

31,390,479

22,550,000

Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £340,000.

† Securities with the Crown Agents £125,000.

No. S. 121. 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 Issue Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 of 1911):-

Security.

Amount.

Nominal Value.

Price when deposited.

5% War Loan,

£125,000

-

Latest market price.

£95. 17s. 6d.