196 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1896.
SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
TH
HE Court will sit in Summary Jurisdic- tion, every Friday, until further notice.
By Order of the Court,
F. A. HAZELAND, Acting Registrar.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
In the Matter of the Estate of FRANK TROWERS, late of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that His Honour
WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN, Acting Chief Justice, has, by virtue of Section 3 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1879, made an Order limit- ing to the 17th March, 1896, the time for sending in Claims against the said Estate.
All creditors are hereby required to send in their claims to the undersigned before the said date.
Dated the 22nd February, 1896.
F. A. HAZELAND, Acting Registrar
and
Acting Official Administrator.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
No. 20 of 1895.
In the Matter of EDWARD FRANK BIRCHAL, lately carrying on busi- ness at No. 22, Stanley Street, at Victoria, in the Colony of Hong- kong, as VILLA, LOPEZ & Co.
Named Debtor was adjudicated Bank- OTICE is hereby given that the Bhore
rupt on the 6th instant, and that the under- signed was appointed Trustee.
ARATHOON SETH, Official Receiver.
Land Office, Hongkong, 17th day of February, 1896.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
A
IN BANKRUPTCY.
No. 12 of 1895.
In the Matter of TAM CHUNG 'I, trading as the KAU CHEUNG Firm, lately residing and carrying on business at No. 70, Jervois Street, in the Colony of Hongkong.
DIVIDEND is intended to be declared in the matter of TAM CHUNG 'I, trad- ing as the KAU CHEUNG Firm, adjudicated Bankrupt on the 25th day of October, 1895.
Creditors who have not proved their debts by the 23rd day of March, 1896, will be ex- cluded.
Dated this 19th day of February, 1896.
ARATHOON SETH,
Trustee.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONGKONG.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
No. 10 of 1895,
NOTICE.
ress as
.
In the Matter of KwOK PO SHAN, deceased, lately carrying on busi- Cattle Dealer and Butcher at No. 78. First St eet, ictoria, Hongkong, under the Am names F KAM HING and TSUI HING.
DIVIDEND of $12 per cent. has been declared and is payable on application at the Land Office on and after Tuesday, the 25th instant,
ARATHOON SETH,
Trustee.
Land Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1896.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONGKONG.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
In the Matter of the HONGKONG, CANTON COM- AND MACAO STEAM-BOAT PANY, LIMITED AND REDUCED,
and
In the Matter of the COMPANIES' ORDI-
NANCES 1877 and 1886.
OTICE is hereby given that the Order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong dated the 12th day of February, 1896, confirm- ing the reduction of the Capital of the above named Company from $1,600,000 to $1,200,000 and the minute (approved by the Court) showing, with respect to the Capital of the Company as altered, the several particulars required by the above mentioned Ordinances were registered by the Registrar of Companies on the 12th day of February, 1896. And further take notice that the said minute is in the words following:-"The Capital of the HONG- "KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAM-BOAT "COMPANY, LIMITED AND REDUCED, is "$1,200,000 divided into 80,000 shares of $15 "each. At the time of the registration of this "minute the sum of $15.00 has been and is to "be deemed to be paid up on each of the said "shares."
Dated this 12th day of February, 1896,
VICTOR H. DEACON, Solicitor for the Company.
NOTICE is hereby given that PRICE'S
PATENT CANDLE COMPANY, LIMITED,
of Battersea, in the County of Surrey, England, Manufacturers, have this day by their Mana- ging Director, applied to His Excellency the Governor under the provisions of Ordinances. 16 of 1873, 8 of 1886 and 20 of 1895, for leave to register two several TRADE MARKS in the Register of Trade Marks in the Office of the Colonial Secretary in the name of the said Company.
One of the said Trade Marks (consisting of a representation of a ship in full sail) will be used in respect of CANDLES, NIGHT-LIGHTS, COMMON SOAP, OILS, PREPARATIONS FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES, TOILET SOAPS and GLYCERINE, and the other Mark (representing a palm tree in the centre of a small landscape) will be used in respect of CANDLES.
Specimens of the said marks may be seen upon application being made at the Colonial Secretary's Office.
Dated the 15th day of January, 1898.
Τ
H. L. DENNYS, Solicitor for
I'RICE'S PATENT CANDLE COMPANY, LIMITED.
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE Twenty-Seventh Ordinary Annual Meeting of Shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, Pedder's Street, on Thursday, the 27th proximo, at Noon, to receive a State- ment of Accounts to 31st December, 1895, and the Report of the General Managers, and to elect a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 14th to the 27th proximo, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers, Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Hongkong, 27th January, 1896.
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