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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 7.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 12TH FEBRUARY, 1876.
VOL. XXII.
No. 37.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st January, 1876, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th February, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
Oriental Bank Corporation,
493,328
200,000
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,. Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
784,870
270,000
631,180
225,000
1,621,002
600,000
TOTAL,....
..$
3,530,380
1,295,000
No. 38.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., is pleased to direct that the following revised Rates of Postage (including those already notified) be published for general information.
France and Algeria, via Brindisi,
Spain and Portugal, via Brindisi, Brazil, Registration Fee,
By French Packet.
LETTERS.
Continent of Europe (France excepted),
Ports of China and Japan (To or from), Aden, Ceylon, India, Pondicherry, Saigon,
Cents.
.12 per 1 oz. .18 per .16.
OZ.
.18 per
ΟΖ.
8 per OZ.
.12 per 1⁄2 oz.
The above are all the changes hitherto made in the Table of Rates dated the 1st January, and must be regarded as superseding that Table so far as they apply.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th February, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 39.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Returns connected with the business of the Superior and Subordinate Courts of the Colony, for the Year 1875, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th February, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
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