THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH OCTOBER, 1869. 495
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information, by order of His Excellency SIR RICHARD Graves MACDONNELL, that, the system of registration has been, from this date, extended to letters and other descriptions of correspondence transmitted by the Post, in the Mails by both the British Contract Packets and by Private Ships, between this Office and each Agency thereof in China and Japan, viz.: Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Hiogo, and Yokohama, and also between any two of these Agencies.
The fee for registration is 8 cents each letter, &c.,
No Letter, Book, or packet of patterns can be registered unless the full postage upon it, as well as the registration fee, be paid in advance in postage Stamps.
Letters, &c., for registration will be received up to half an hour before the time fixed for closing the Mails.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong 13th October, 1869.
No. 118.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 30th September, 1869, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th October, 1869.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
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AVERAGE
BANKS.
AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
Oriental Bank Corporation,..
750,201
250,067
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,.
581,584
250,000
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,.
364,650
125,000
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
1,168,938
800,000
TOTAL........
2,865,373
1,425,067
No. 116.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, Esquire, having reported his return to the Colony, has this day resumed his duties as Registrar General.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th October, 1869.
No. 117.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, by Additional Instructions under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, dated Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 16th of August, 1869, and addressed to His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., has been pleased to appoint CECIL C. SMITH, Esquire, to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Colony of Hongkong.
The Honorable CECIL C. SMITH has been this day sworn in accordingly.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th October, 1869.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
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