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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD APRIL, 1879.

NOTICE.

SPECIAL SESSIONS of the Supreme Court,

in its Criminal Jurisdiction, will be held on Wednesday, the 30th day of April, A.D. 1879, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon,

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By Order of the Court,

C. B. PLUNKET, Registrar.

SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. HE Court will sit in Original Jurisdiction, on every Monday and Thursday, until further notice.

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HЕ Court will sit in Summary Jurisdiction,

every Tuesday, unti. further notice.

By Order of the Court,

C. B. PLUNKET, Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.

In the matter of WONG-YAM-TING alias WONG-

WA-HEE, a Bankrupt.

Noble Sitting for the said Bankrupt to OTICE is hereby given that the adjourned

pass his last examination and make application for his order of discharge, will be held before the Honourable Sir JOHN SMALE, Knight, Chief Justice, at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on Thursday, the 1st day of May, 1879, at 11 A.M., precisely.

STEPHENS & HOLMES,

Solicitors for the Bankrupt.

2, Club Chambers,

Hongkong, 19th April, 1879.

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NOTICE.

THE business of the undersigned will in future be conducted under the firm of SHARP & DANBY.

SHARP & Co.,

Estate Agents & Valuators. WILLIAM DANBY, C.E., Architect & Surveyor.

No. 6, Queen's Road Central, Lately occupied by

Messrs. E. D. SASSOON & Co. Hongkong, 1st April, 1879.

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to the provisions of the Articles of Associa- tion of the Company, and of the Companies' Ordinance, 1865, an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Company's Office, situate at No. 7, Queen's Road, Hongkong, at 3 P.M., on Tuesday, the 6th day of May next, for the purpose of passing a special Resolution making certain alterations in the Articles of Association of the Company to the following effect, viz. :-

1. That the General Managers with the sanction of the Consulting Committee, in any years that the accounts of the Company shall render it desirable, may pay losses wholly or in | part out of the excess of the Reserve Fund over and above $250,000, in order that Contributing and other Shareholders may not unnecessarily

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be deprived of Bonus and Dividend; such changes to take effect from the 1st January, 1878.

2. That the annual Bonus payable to Con- tributing Shareholders and the annual contri- bution to the Reserve Fund be left to the dis- cretion of the General Managers and Consult- ing Committee, and that the sum to be annually appropriated to Dividend be subject to the approval of the Company in Meeting.

Notice is hereby also given that a second Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the same hour and place on Tuesday, the 20th day of May next, for the purpose of confirming such Special Resolution as aforesaid.

Dated the 12th day of April, 1879.

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JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers

NOTICE.

HE interest and responsibility of Mr. WILLIAM SALWAY in our Firm ceased on the 1st instant. Mr. W. WILSON will sign the Firm in liquidation.

WILSON & SALWAY, Architects, &c.

ITH reference to the above, I have admitted Mr. SOTHEBY GODFREY BIRD as a Partner, the business will henceforward be conti- nued under the name of WILSON & BIRD.

W. WILSON.

Hongkong, 7th April, 1879. Printed and Published by NORONHA & SONS, Printers to the Hongkong Government.