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No. 127.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH MAY, 1880.

'GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return is published for general information.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

431

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th May, 1880.

RETURN of the NUMBER of CASES tried and ACTIONS commenced in the Supreme and Vice-Admiralty Courts of Hongkong, during the Year ending 31st December, 1879.

Cases tried in 1879.

Court.

reise Court:-

Number of Cases and Discharges in Bankruptcy, and Probates and Letters of Admi- nistration granted.

Judgment.

Total.

Amount of Debt

and Damages

claimed.

Plaintiff.

Defendant. Nonsuit.

or

Struck out

| Cases.

Debt and Damages.

Settled.

Sammary Jurisdiction,

758

Original Jurisdiction,.

7

$93,138.62 58,873.84

574

76

15

93

4

1

2

Cawery,

Bankruptcy,

1

Probate,

65

Appeals,

V-Admiralty Court,

5

13,715.97

3

$61,370.03

2

5

13,715.97

Actions commenced in 1879.

Num-

Amount of Debt

Court.

ber of

and Damages

Cases.

claimed.

Settled without Trial.

Judgment.

Plaintiff. Defendant. Nonsuit. Struck out.

preme Court:-

Summary Jurisdiction, 1,246

Original Jurisdiction,

56

$162,067.74

536,743.24

Chancery,

...

Bankruptcy,

8

{ Assets in Schedule, $44,963.76) Debts,................ 405 905.17 Assets valued at.. 400,173.69)

Imbate,

65

Appeals,

Vice Admiralty Court,...

4

10,965.97

No. 128.

Remaining in Depend-

ence.

Total.

Cases. Debt & Damages.

477

17

574 10

76

15

93 2

11

26

$61,370.03 96,683.34

8

2

10,965.97

HENRY FREDERICK GIBBONS,

Registrar.

CHARLES BUSHE PLUNKET,

Registrar, Vice-Admiralty Court.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION.

The following is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th May, 1880.

[No. 34.]

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, 16th March, 1880.

SIR,I have the honour to report that the Fourth Clerkship in this Department has been left cant by the transfer of Mr. GUTIERREZ to the post lately resigned by Mr. CHAGAS and by the transfer Mr. CHAN A-FOOK to that vacated by Mr. GUTIERREZ,

2. As I believe it is the wish of the Governor to encourage the flow of promotion in Government Departments when Officers prove themselves worthy, I beg to recommend that Mr. J. G. GUTIERREZ,

present Assistant Clerk in the Land Office, who knows how to keep books and accounts and who salady conversant with the duties, should be promoted one step and receive the post of Fourth Clerk, leaving his office to be filled up in the manner His Excellency may deem best.

. In the Colonial Estimates, the Salary of this post is $70 a month, but I think it would be later to reduce it to $60 a month for the first few years, leaving the increase of $10 to be earned by

ligence and zeal on the part of the holder.