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In addition to these names additional names appear on a list of firms in liquidation and the respective liquidators. These additions were:
Wendt and Co.
O. Struckmeyer, Siemssen and Co.
Hugo G. Fromm
Witzke and Co.
Hill, Bergdahl and Co. and personal affairs of Mr. F. Lonia
A. Bune, personal affairs
Hamburg Amerika Line Norddeutsche Lloyd Austrian Lloyd
H. Wicking and Co.
Pustau and Company
William Charles Engelbrecht von Pustau announced in a Hong Kong newspaper that on 1 January 1846 the business of William Pustau would in the future be carried on under the name of William Pustau and Co, at Hong Kong and Canton. (FC 12 Jan. 1846). In 1848 the company was appointed agent for the Austrian Lloyd Steam Navigation Co. They advertised the "Overland Route" from Trieste to Alexandria. The passengers would then cross by land to the Red Sea where they would connect with the P. and O. route to Ceylon (FC 20 Nov. 1858).
William Pustau was named Consul for Bremen in 1852 (FC 31 Jan. 1852). He later returned to Germany and opened an office of the firm at Hamburg. The firm failed in 1878 (DP 30 Dec. 1878). This failure pushed him into a breakdown and he entered a mental asylum where he died in 1880 aged fifty-nine (CM 18 Feb. 1880). His business failure may have been caused by over-extension into real estate. In 1867 news from London stated that William Pustau of Altona had lately bought 19 Pall Mall and was in the course of erecting "a magnificent mansion of five storeys on the site" (CM 4 Jan. 1867). Three years later news from Hamburg stated that he had purchased "the extensive and beautifully wooded grounds at Münstedten, on the banks of the Elbe, known as Parish's Villa from the family of Mr. Parish, formerly the head of the firm of Parish and Company, China Merchants, Hamburg, for the sum of 2,000,000 marks. "Mr. Pustau intends to pull down the building and substitute a handsome modern country villa on a better locality in the centre of the park" (CM 30 July 1870).