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172 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1896.

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NOTICE.

HE next Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court will be held on Tuesday, the 18th day of February, 1896, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.

By Order of the Court,

F. A. HAZELAND,

Acting Registrar.

Registry Supreme Court,

Hongkong, 14th February, 1896.

SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG,

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THE Court will sit in Summary Jurisdic- tion, every Friday, until further notice.

By Order of the Court,

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F. A. HAZELAND, Acting Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION,

In the Matter of the HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAM-BOAT COM- 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.

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VICTOR H. DEACON, Solicitor for the Company.

NOTICE.

HE Undersigned have been appointed Sole Agents in Hongkong and China for Messrs. RUDOLF DAESCHNER & Co., and Managers of Messrs. RUDOLF DAL SCHNER & Co.'s Feather Factory at Kennedy Town, Hongkong.

LAUTS, WEGENER & Co. Hongkong, February, 1896.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

In the Mutter of the Estate of JOHN otherwise JOHN HADDOW MAC- DONALD, late of Somerside, Belmont Avenue, Kew, in the Colony of Victoria, Gentleman, Deceased.

OTICE is hereby given that in accordance with the Provisions of Ordinance No. 9 of 1870, section 3, an Order has been made by The Honourable WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN, Acting Chief Justice of Hongkong, limiting the time for Creditors to send in their claims against the above Estate to the 12th day of March, 1896, and that all such claims are to be sent in to the Undersigned on or before that date, or notice will not be taken of them.

All persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to the Undersigned.

Dated at Hongkong,

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the 14th day of February, 1896. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Supreme Court House, Hongkong,

Solicitors for the Administrator.

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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