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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH OCTOBER, 1884.

NOTICE.

WILLIAM BOLTON SPRATT, deceased.

NOTICE is hereby given that all Creditors

and other l'ersons having any Claims or Demands upon or against the Estate of WILLIAM BOLTON SPRATT, late of No. 19, Hollywood Road, Victoria, Hongkong, Gentle- uan, who died on the 4th day of July, 1881, and whose Will was proved by CHARLES CAIRNS ́ and CHEASY EWENS, the Executors therein named, in the Supreme Court of Hong- kong on the 6th day of Angust, 1884, are hereby required to send particulars in writing of their Claims and Demands to ine the undersigned. CREASY EWENS, of No. 45, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on or before the 20th day of November next, after which date the Exc- cutors will proceed to distribute or dispose of the Assets of the said Deceased, having regard to those Cabins only of which they shall then have had notice, and the Executors will not be liable for the Assets or any part thereof so distributed to any person or persons of whose Claims or Demands they shall not then have had notice.

Dated this 16th day of October, 1881.

C. EWENS, Solicitor to the said Erecutors.

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NOTICE.

E Interest and Responsibility of MR. ALFRED THOMAS MANGER in our Firm ceased on the 30th day,of June, 1884.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1884.

"AMER INDIEN."

DÉLICIEUX APÉRITIF

A BASE

ESSENTIELLE DE QUINQUINA, Excellent Febrifuge et Digestif.

Dépôt :-Haïphong (Tonkin), chez Mr. RENÉ COINT, Agent unique de EUG. RAYMOND et Cie, de Marseille et entrepositaire des premieres marques de Vins, Liqueurs, Sirops, etc.

HAIPHONG, (TONKIN).

FOR SALE.

THE CITIES AND TOWNS OF CHINA,

THE

A Dictionary of Reference, By

G. M. H. PLAYFAIR. Price-$3.00 per Copy, bound. Apply to

MESSRS. NORONHA & Co.

NOTICE.

RULES OF THE HONGKONG

SAVINGS BANK.

1.-The business of the above Bank will be conducted by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, on their premises in Hongkong. Business hours on week-days, 10 to 3; Saturdays. 10 to 1.

2.--The Assets of the Hongkong and Shang- hai Banking Corporation will form a direct Security for the repayment of suus deposited in the above Bank,

3.-Sums less than $1, or more than $250 at one time will not be received. No Depositor may deposit more th-n $1,500 in any one year. 4.-Deposits may be made on behalf of rela- tions, of Trusts, &e., in addition to the Depo- sitor's own account.

5.--Persons desirons of saving suns less than a dollar may do so by affixing clean ten-cent stamps to a form to be obtained at the Bank or at the Post Office. When the form is presented with ten clean stamps the Depositor will be credited one dollar.

$37

NOW ON

SALE.

CHINESE A

DICTIONARY

IN THE

CANTONESE DIALECT,

BY

DR. E. J. EITEL.

CROWN OCTAvo, pp. 1018.

Part I.

HONGKONG, A-K,

1877-1883.

.$2.50

Part II.

K-M,

.$2.50

Part III. Part IV.

M-T,

.$3.00

T-Y,

.$3.00

This Standard Work on the Chinese Language, constructed on the basis of Kanghi's Imperial Dictionary, contains all Chinese characters in practical use, and while alphabetically arranged according to the sounds of the oldest dialect of China, the Cantonese, it gives also the Mandarin book, so that its usefulness is by no means con- pronunciation of all characters explained in the

6-Depositors in the Savings Bank having $100 or more at their credit may at their option transfor the same to the Hongkong and Shang- bai Banking Corporation on fixed deposit for 12 months at 5 per cent, per annum interest.

7.-Deposits may be forwarded from the Ports by means of clean Hongkong Postagogical guide to the student. Stamps of any values,

fined to the Cantonese Dialect, but the work is a practically complete Thesaurus of the whole Written Language of China, ancient and modean, as used all over the Empire, whilst its intro- ductory chapters serve the purposes of a philolo-

S.-Interest at the rate of 33 per cent, per annum will be allowed to Depositors on their daily balances.

9. Each Depositor will be supplied gratis with a Pass-Book which must be presented with each payment or withdrawal. Depositors must not make any entries themselves in their Pass- Books, but should send them to be writion up at least twice a year, about the beginning of January and beginning of July.

10.-Covers containing Pass-Books, Register- ed Letters containing Stamps or other Kemit- tances, and generally, correspondence as to the business of the Bank will, if marked Ox HONG- KONG SAVINGS BANK BUSINE-S, be forwarded free of Postage or Registration Fees by the various British Post Offices in Hongkong and China.

11.-Withdrawals may be made on demand, but the personal attendance of the Depositor or his duly appointed Agent, and the production of his Pass-Book are necessary.

12. All documents connected with the busi- ness of the Savings Bank are exempt from Stamp Duty.

For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager.

WITH Reference to the above, business will he commenced on the 1st May, 1884.

For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

A Supplement, arranged for being bound and us itself, and containing a List of the Radicals, on Index, and a List of Surnames, will be published and sold separately.

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Hongkong, January 15, 1883.

FOR SALE.

NOPIES in Pamphlet Form of Instructions for making Meteorological Observations, prepared for use in China, by Dr. DOBERCK, Government Astronomer.

Apply to

Price-50 Cents.

Messrs. NORONHA & Co.,

KELLY & WALSH, Hongkong and Shanghai.

Hongkong, 17th November, 1883.

FOR SALE.

Revd. W. Lobscheid's CHINESE & ENGLISH

DICTIONARY,

at $2.50 each.

NORONHA & Co.

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LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. KELLY & WALSH.

T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager,

Hongkong, 27th January, 1880.

Hongkong, 26th April, 1884.

Hongkong, 31st December, 1881.

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