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DIE

ET

MON

DROIT.

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 51.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH DECEMBER, 1869.

VOL. XV.

No. 147.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Ilis Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., has been pleased to direct that the Holidays customary at the approaching Season shall be kept from Thursday, the 23rd, to Saturday the 25th Instant, inclusive, and on New Year's Day.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th December, 1869.

No. 146.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, for the Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION..

The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 30th November, 1869, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th December, 1869.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

A

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.-

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

$

Oriental Bank Corporation,.

701,377

233,793

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,

664,546

250,000

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,.

$98,050 -

133,000

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,.

1,005,201

800,000

TOTAL,.

2,769,174

1,41€,793

No. 145.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

An Index and-Title Page to the Government Gazette for 1869 will be published for binding with the Volume, with the frst issue in 1870.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Ofice, Hongkong, 11th December, 1869-

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,.

Colonial Secretary.