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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH FEBRUARY, 1886.

JURY LIST-1886.

OTICE is hereby given that Pur- suant to the Provisions of Section 4 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1882, I have This Day caused to be Posted in the COURT HOUSE, a LIST OF ALL MEN ascertained by me to be liable to serve as JURORS.

The said List will remain so posted for the term of one fortnight, in order that any Person may, as the case shall be, apply by Notice in writing to me requiring that his Name, or the Names of some other Person or Persons may be respectively either added to, or struck off the said List, upon cause duly as- signed in such Notice. Registry, Supreme Court,

This 1st day of February, 1886.

EDW. J. ACKROYD, Registrar.

SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

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HECourt will sit in Summary Jurisdiction,

every Friday, until further notice.

THE Court willsit in Original Jurisdiction,

Then every Monday and Thursday, until

further notice.

By Order of the Court,

EDW. J. ACKROYD, Registrar.

DHUNJEEBHOY RUTTUNJEE, deceased.

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URSUANT to an Order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, made on the 12th day of November, 1885, Notice is hereby given that all Persons having Claims against the Estate of the said DHUNJEEBHOY RUTTUNJEE, formerly of Bombay and Calcutta, in the Empire of India, but late of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, (who died at Victoria aforesaid on or about the 22nd day of Septem- ber last and to whose personal estate and effects Administration was granted on the 12th day of November, instant, by the Supreme Court of Hongkong in its Probate Jurisdiction to JAMSETJEE RUTTUNJEE BISNEE of Calcutta, aforesaid, and HORMUSJEE COOVERJEE SETNA, of Victoria, aforesaid, Gentlemen) are hereby required to send in writing Particulars of their Claims to us, the undersigned, Solicitors for the said Executors, on or before the 12th day of February next, after which time the Execu- tors will proceed to distribute the Assets of the deceased among the Persons entitled thereto having regard only to the Claims of which they shall then have had notice.

Dated the 13th day of November, 1885. WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors for the said Executors,

35, Queen's Road,

Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

HE Seventeenth Ordinary Annual Meeting of Shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, Pedder's Street, on Tuesday, the 23rd February instant, at 2.30 p.m. to receive a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1885, 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 10th to the 23rd day of February instant, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers, Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited. Hongkong, 5th February, 1886.

THE LATEST AMERICAN INVENTION.

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THE VICTORY OF ELECTRICITY.

INCE Electricity has been applied for light-

ing purposes, all efforts of inventors have been directed to construct a lamp for general domestic use. The reason why this problem

has till now not been solved. is that none of the

inventors could rid themselves of the idea of gas system of producing the Electricity in some lighting, and that all have adhered to the central place, or by large machinery, instead of first laying down the principle that a Lamp which should ever become generally useful and popular, must be portable, like an Oil Lamp, and contain the generator of Electricity in itself, i. e., in the foot of the Lamp.

The Norman Electric Light Co. has at last succeeded in completely realizing this ideal of Electric Lighting, and there is no doubt that this most important invention will bring about a complete revolution in all branches of light- ing.

Our Electric Lamp, needs neither Machi- nery, Conductors, nor any expensive outlay, and is neither complicated, nor disagreable in manipulation; all that is necessary is to refill it every four or five days with acid. The cost of lighting will be as cheap as gas (2 cents per hour), and it has before the latter the im- mense advantage of neither producing heat, smoke nor carbonic acid, owing to which the air is not impured, and remains at the same degree of temperature. It is further, absolutely inodorous, and does not need to be kindled by match, or otherwise, but simply by turning the key, thus avoiding all danger of fire, ex- plosion or suffocation, as in the case of gas, if the key is left open; and it must be conceded that this advantage alone is invaluable. It is further preferable to any known kind of light- ing for the following reasons:

(1.) Its manipulation is so simple that any child can keep it in order.

(2.) That the Lamp is portable, and can be removed like any Oil Lamp, from one place to another.

(3.) That it neither requires the disagreeable fixing of the wick, or the cleaning of the cylinder, as in the case of Oil Lamps.

(4.) That the light produced is a soft and most steady one; that it never flickers, and the flame, though being equal in power of lighting to gas, can be regulated to any degree.

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Address:

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Price, per Lamp (inclusive of Bronze Font and Globe, richly and elegantly constructed), £2. delivered free to any part of the world.

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Every Lamp is accompanied by a written guarantee for one year, and will be exchanged, or money refunded, if the same should not give complete satisfaction.

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The Norman Electric Light Co.

PHILADELPHIA,

VICTORIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.

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OTICE is hereby given that a General Meeting of the VICTORIA FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY OF HONGKONG, LIMITED, will be held at the Office of Messrs. WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors, No. 35, Queen's Road, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 22nd day of February, 1886, at noon, under the provisions of Section 130 of the Companies' Ordinance, No. 1 of 1865, when the Liquidator of the Company will lay before the Meeting an Ac- count showing the manner in which the Winding-up of the Company has been con- ducted, and also for the purpose of deciding as to the disposal of the Books, Accounts, and Documents of the Company.

Dated the 23rd day of January, 1886.

F. D. SASSOON,

Liquidator.

U. S. of America.

· NORONHA & Co.,

PRINTERS, PUBLISHERS & STATIONERS,

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Printers to the Government of Hongkong, Nos. 5, 7 & 9, ZETLAND STREET,

HONGKONG.

ESTABLISHED, 1844.

Letter-Press Printing. Copper-Plate Printing, Monogram Printing.

Play-bills, Hand-bills, Programmes, Posters, fc., &C.,

neatly printed in coloured ink.

Printed and Published by NORONHA & Co., Printers to the Hongkong Government.