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No. 5.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH JANUARY, 1877.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st December, 1876, is published for general information. By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th January, 1877.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

$

Oriental Bank Corporation,

303,127

150,000

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,....

520,774

190,000

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

439,424

150,000

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,

1,238,700

500,000

TOTAL,

2,502,025

990,000

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

The Money Order Branch of this Department will in future be closed at 1 o'clock every Saturday afternoon.

On other week days Money Order business will be transacted as usual from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M., and on the days before the departures of the British and French Contract Packets from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.

ALFRED LISTER,

Postmaster General.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 3rd January, 1877.

No. 217.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that, in accordance with "The Rating Ordinance, 1875," His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, has fixed the Police Rate for the Year 1877, at Seven-and-three-quarters per cent for Houses in the City of Victoria, and at Five per cent for Houses in British Kowloon and the outlying Villages of the Colony; and the Lighting Rate at One-and-a-half per cent, the Fire Brigade Rate at Three-quarters per cent, and the Water Rate at Two per cent per annum, for Houses in the City of Victoria.

The Police, Lighting, Fire Brigade, and Water Rates will be payable Quarterly in advance at the Colonial Treasury, between the first and last Days of the first Month in each Quarter.

These several Rates shall be charged and chargeable on, and recoverable from, the Owners of the Tenements in respect of which the above Assessments have been made.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th December, 1876.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that the Crown Rents for the half-year ending 25th December, 1876, should be paid into the Treasury on or before the 15th January, 1877.

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 27th December, 1876.

C. MAY,

Acting Colonial Treasurer.