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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
Notice of Special Meeting of Creditors.
No. 28 of 1909.
Re ALBERT ABRAHAM and Yu LEUNG SHIalias YONG ABRAHAM both of No. 1, Clarence Terrace, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong- kong.
RIDAY, the 7th day of May, 1915, at 10.30 o'clock in the forenoon precisely, has been fixed for the Special Meeting of Creditors in the above matter, to be held at the Official Receiver's Office, Victoria, aforesaid.
Notice of Receiving Orders and First General Meetings of Creditors.
No. 14 of 1915.
Re CARLOS GIACINTO PINTOS, Fore- man in the Public Works Depart- ment, Victoria, aforesaid.
Receiving Order dated the 23rd day of March, 1915.
Petition dated the 19th day of March, 1915.
THURSDAY, the 6th day of May, 1915,
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at 11 o'clock in the forenoon pre- cisely, has been fixed for the First General Meeting of Creditors in the above matter, to be held at the Official Receiver's Office, Victoria, aforesaid.
No. 18 of 1915.
Re LUIZ LOPES, foreman in the Sanitary Department, Victoria, aforesaid.
Receiving Order dated the 12th day of April, 1915.
Petition dated the 9th day of April, 1915.
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THURSDAY, the 6th day of May, 1915, at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoon precisely, has been fixed for the First General Meeting of Creditors in the above matter, to be held at the Official Receiver's Office, Victoria, aforesaid.
No Creditor can vote unless he previously proves his debt at least 24 hours before the Meeting.
Forms of Proof and Proxy can be obtained and filled in at the Official Receiver's Office during office hours.
At the First General Meetings the Creditors will be asked to consider whether the Debtors shall be adjudged Bankrupt.
Dated this 30th day of April, 1915.
N
E. CARPMAEL,
Official Receiver.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
In the Matter of the FOOK ON ASSURANCE AND GODOWN COM- PANY, LIMITED
and
In the Matter of the Companies
Ordinances 1911 and 1913.
OTICE is hereby given that a Petition was on the 21st day of April, 1915, presented to His Majesty's Supreme Court of Hongkong by the above-named Company to confirm an alteration of the said Company's
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objects proposed to be effected by a Special Resolution of the Company unanimously pass- ed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the said Company held on the 3rd day of March, 1915, and subsequently unanimously confirmed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the said Company held on the 18th day of March, 1915, and which Resolution runs as follows:-
1. That the Company be authorised to carry on all or any of the following businesses in addition to the business authorised by the Memorandum and Articles of Association :--
(1.) To carry on the business of Life Assurance in all its branches, and in particular to grant or effect assurances of all kinds for payment of money by way of a single payment or by several ay- ments or by way of immedi- ate or deferred annuities or otherwise upon the happen- ing of all or any of the following events namely the death or marriage or birth or survivorship or failure of issue of or the attainment of a given age by any person or persons or the expiration of any fixed or ascertainable period or the occurrence of any contingency or event which would or might be taken to affect the interest whether in possession vested contingent expectant pro- spective or otherwise of any person or persons in any property or the loss or re- covery of Contractual or
testamentary capacity in any
person or persons and also (in connection with assur- ances on the life or lives of the same person or persons but not otherwise) to grant assurances payable upon or after the happening of per- sonal injuries caused by accident of any description or upon the happening of sickness or bodily or mental incapacity.
(2.) To grant annuities of all
kinds, whether dependent on human life or otherwise, and whether perpetual or ter- minable and whether im- mediate or deferred, and whether contingent or other- wise.
(3.) To contract with leaseholders borrowers lenders annuitants and others for the establish- ment accumulation provision and payment of sinking funds and any other special funds and that either in con- sideration of a lump sum or of an annual premium or otherwise and generally on such terms and conditions as may be arranged.
(4.) To purchase and deal in and lend on life reversionary and other interests in property of all kinds whether absolute or contingent or expectant and whether determinable or not; and to acquire lend money on redeem cancel or extinguish by purchase sur- render otherwise
any policy security grant or con- tract issued made or taken over entered into by the Company.
or
(5.) To reassure or counter-assure all or any risks and to un- dertake all kinds of reassur- ance and counter-assurances connected with any of the business aforesaid,
(6.) To give to any class or sec- tion of those who assure or have other dealings with the Company any rights over or
in relation to any fund or funds or a right to particip- ate in the profits of the Company or in the profits of any particular branch Or part of its business or any other special privileges ad- vantages or benefits.
AND NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the said Petition is directed to be heard before His Honour Sir WILLIAM REES DAVIES, Knight, Chief Justice, at 10.15 a.m., on Thurs- day, the 6th day of May, 1915, and any person interested in the said Company whether as creditor policy holder or otherwise desirous to oppose the making of an order for the con- firmation of the said alteration under the above Ordinances should appear at the time of bear- ing, by himself or his Counsel, for the purpose, and a copy of the said Petition will be furnished to any such person requiring the same by the Company's Solicitors Messrs. HASTINGS and HASTINGS, of No. 8, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong on pay- ment of the regulated charge for the same.
Dated the 30th day of April, 1915.
HASTINGS & HASTINGS,
Solicitors for the Company.
THE NEW AMOY DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
Notice of Ordinary and Extraordinary Meetings.
Third Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the 【OTICE is hereby given that the Twenty-
Shareholders in the NEW AMOY DOCK COM- PANY, LIMITED, will be held in the Offices of the General Managers in Amoy on Saturday, the 8th day of May, 1915, at 11.30 of the clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st Dec- ember, 1914, and for the election of Auditors.
The Trausfer Books of the Company will be Closed from the 24th April to 8th May, 1915, 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 same day at 11.30 of the clock in the forenoon or so soon afterwards as the Annual General Meeting shall be con- cluded, an Extraordinary General Meeting of the NEW AMOY DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolu- tions:-
(1) To consider, and if thought fit, approve the draft new Articles. copies of which will be sent to shareholders before the Meeting. And, in the event of the approval thereof, with or without modifications:-
(2) To consider and, if thought fit, to pass an Extraordinary Resolution to the effect --
That the new Articles already approved by this Meeting "and for the purpose of "identification subscribed by the Chairman thereof, "be and the same are here- "by approved, and that such Regulations be and they are hereby adopted as the "Articles of the Company to "the exclusion of, and in "substitution for, all the ex- "isting Articles thereof."
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Should the above Resolutions be passed by the required majority they will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
Dated this 23rd April, 1915,
TAIT & Co., General Managers.