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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
Notice of Ordinary and Extraordinary Meetings
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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET- ING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corpora- tion will be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on Saturday, the 22nd day of August, 1914. at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th June. 1914. and for the confirmation of the election of Directors.
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from Monday, the 10th August, to Saturday. the 22nd | August. 1914, (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
AND NOTICE is hereby also given that at the same place and on the s me day at Noon, or so soon afterwards as the Ordinary Half- Yearly Meeting shall be concluded, an Extra- ordinary Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corporation will be held, when the sub-joined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions :-
(1.) That the Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation be and they are hereby requested and authorised by and on behalf of the Shareholders of the Company to take the steps necessary to apply for the introduction of an Ordinance into the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong supplemental to The Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance, 1866. and the enactment of the same by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof to effect the amend- ment of Section 20 of The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance. 1866, bereafter set out with such modifica- tions (if any) as they may think fit and to accept such Ordinance (if any) when enacted.
The following is the amendment above referred to:-
The deletion from Section 20 of the said Ordinance of the words "to take and "accept an lands, houses, or other "real or personal property in satis- "faction, liquidation, or payment of "any debt absolutely and bonâ fide "previously due and owing to the "Company, and also to take any "mortgage or other lien or charge
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'on real or personal property as a "security for any monies actually “and honâ fide previously due to the Company or for which any person may have rendered himself liable "to the Company, and to hold such "lands. houses and other real and
personal property respectively for "such reasonable time as may be **necessary for selling and disposing "of and converting the same into "money", and the substitution there- for of the following words :-" To "take accept, enforce, release, realise or deal with any security now held "or which may hereafter be bold by "the Company, for any moneys owing or 10 become owing to the Company, or for any liabilities incurred or "to be incurred towards or by the "Company by way of mortgage, "pledge, hypothecation. deposit or "otherwise howsoever of every kind "of property or rights".
(2.) That the Deed of Settlement of the Company be altered in manner fol- lowing:-
(4.) That the following words be
struck out of lines two and three of Article 56, namely, the words for not exceeding fifteen days before and seven days after every Ordinary Meeting" and that the follow- ing words be adopted and subsituted therefor namely, "during such time as the Court thinks fit, not exceeding in the whole thirty days in each year".
(b.) That the following words be struck out the last line of Article 56, namely, "after the Meeting" and that the follow- ing words be adopted and substituted therefor, namely,
after the re-opening of the Register".
(e.) That Articles 76, 77 and 78 be
cancelled,
(d.) That the following Articles be adopted and substituted for Articles 76, 77 and 78, namely:-
Article 76.-- General Meet-
ings shall be held once in every year, at such time and place in the Colony as may be pre- "scribed by the Company "in General Meeting, and if no such time or place "is prescribed. then at "such time and place as may be determined by "the Court, and unless "and until otherwise pre- "scribed or determined
as aforesaid a General Meeting shall be held in "the month of February
in every year".
Article 77.-"The General
Meetings mentioned in "the last preceding Article "shall be called Ordinary
*Meetings".
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Article 78,- "All other Gen- "eral Meetings shall be "called Extraordinary "Meetings".
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
WHONGKONG.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
Notice of Dividend.
No. 1 of 1914.
Re The HON HING COMPANY, lately carrying on business at No. 210, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.
first and final dividend of $12.50 per cent. has been declared in the above
matter.
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OTICE is hereby given that the above mentioned dividend may be received at the Official Receiver's Office, Victoria, aforesaid, on Wednesday, the 29th day of July, 1914, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and on any subsequent day during office hours.
Creditors applying for payment must pro- duce any bills of exchange or other securities held by them and must sign a receipt in the prescribed form.
Notice of Adjudications and Appointment of Trustee.
No. 15 of 1914.
Re The FOONG TAI Firm, lately carrying on business at No. 9, Victoria Street, ground floor, Vic- toria, aforesaid, Compradores.
THE "or
(e) That Article 90 be altered by inserting and adopting after the word "holding" in line five thereof the words representing by proxy" and by striking on at the end of the said Article the words
present in person”.
(f) That the following words be
added to Article 94:-
The Court may from time to "time pay to the Share- "holders such interim "dividends as appear to "be justified by the posi- tion of the Company".
(9.) That the following words be strnck out of the first three and a half lines of Article 174, namely, the words" Half- year ending the 30th June and the 31st December, shall make a General Half-yearly", and that the following words be adopted and substituted therefor Year ending the 31st day of December, shall make a General ".
(.) That the word "Half" be struck out of the eighteenth line of Article 71 and also out of the sixth line of Article 175.
(1.) That the word "twice" and
the words "the 30th day of June and be struck out of lines 4 and 5 of Article 176, and that the word "once" be adopted and substituted for the word "twice" in the fourth line thereof.
(j.) That the words "or the Ordinary Half-yearly" and the words as the case may be" be struck out of lines 10 and 11 of Article 177.
Should the Second Resolution be passed by the required majority, it will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution to a Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
By Order of the Court of Directors.
A. G. STEPHEN, Acting Chief Manager.
Hongkong, 21st July, 1914.
HE above named FooNG TAI Firm were adjudicated Bankrupt on the 23rd day of July, 1914, and the Official Receiver, Mr. E. CARPMAEL, was appointed Trustee of the Estate of the Bankrupt.
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No. 18 of 1914.
Re LUIZ CARLOS XAVIER, Clerk in the Naval Yard, Victoria, afore- said.
HE above named LUIZ CARLOS XAVIER, was adjudicated Bankrupt on the 23rd day of July, 1914, and the Official Receiver, Mr. E. CARPMAEL, was appointed Trustee of the Estate of the Bankrupt.
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No. 19 of 1914.
Re JOHN ANDERSEN, Clerk in the Taikoo Dockyard, Victoria, aforesaid.
HE above named JOHN ANDERSEN was adjudicated Bankrupt on the 23rd day of July, 1914, and the Official Receiver, Mr. E. CARPMAEL, was appointed Trustee of the Estate of the Bankrupt.
Notice of Intended Dividend.
No. 11 of 1913.
Re MAHOMED SHELLIM HARTEAM of Victoria, aforesaid, Writer.
first dividend is intended to be declared
A in the above matter after the expiration
of one month from the 25th day of July, 1914.
No. 11 of 1912.
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Re ANTONIO MARIA COSTA, lately of No. 8, Queen's Road West, Victoria, aforesaid, Telegraphist.
second and final dividend is intended to be declared in the above matter after the expiration of one month from the 25th day of July, 1914.