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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JANUARY, 1875.

SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

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"NTIL further notice, the Court will sit in its Summary Jurisdiction, on every Tues- day, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon.

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By Order,

W. II. ALEXANDER, Registrar.

"THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

ORDINANCE, 1867."

T is hereby notified that the First Floor of

the House hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, No. 18, Peel Street, was on the Seventh day of January, 1875, pursuant to Section XXIII of the above Ordinance, declared by me under my Hand and Seal of Office to be an Un- licensed Brothel.

Registrar General's Office,

CECIL C. SMITII, Registrar General.

Hongkong, 7th January, 1875.

THE BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE, 1864.

MEMORANDUM of DEED or other INSTRUMENT to be registered pursuant to "The Bank- ruptcy Ordinance, 1864."

1. Title of Deed whether Deed of Assignment, Com- position, or Iuspee- torship.

2. Date of Deed.

3. Date of Execution

by Debtors.

4. Nanes and Des- criptious ut the Debtors Deed,

Deed of Assignment and Release.

19th December, 1874. 19th December, 1874.

Adolph Theodor Bourjau, Ernst as in the Behre, and Gustav Adolph Wieler, of No. 7, Praya Central, in the City of Victoria, in the Island of Hongkong, Merchants, Copartners, trading at No. 7, Praya Central aforesaid, and at Shanghai, in the Empire of China, under the style or firm of Bourjau and Company, therein and hereinafter called "the Debtors."

5. The Names and Descriptions of the

Hans Christian Heinrich Hop- Trustees or other pins, of No. 5, Queen's Road, in parties to the Deed the said City of Victoria, Merchant, not including the Cheditors.

a Partner in the Mercantile Firm of Siemssen and Company, of the said City of Victoria and elsewhere, and Adolf Liebrecht Strack, of No. 60, Praya Central, in the said City of Victoria, Merchant, a Partner in the Mercantile Firm of Deetjen and Company, of the said City of Victoria, thereinafter called "the Trustees."

6. A short State-

of the Deed,

An absolute Assignment of all ment of the nature the Debtors' Property, Goods,Chat- tels, Estate and Effects of what- soever kind and nature, whether joint or separate, or otherwise how- soever and wheresoever situate of them the said Debtors and each of them, but upon trust for the benefit of all the Creditors of the Grantors or Debtors in the like manner as if the property so conveyed and assigned had become vested in the Grantees as the Assignees of the Grantors or Debtors under their the Debtors' Bankruptcy. Also a Release by the Creditors to the Debtors of all the Debtors' Liabili- ties.

7. When left for Registration.

4th January, 1875.

I certify the above to be a true Copy of the entry in the Registry Book of Deeds under "The Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1864.”

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

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Hongkong, 5th Januar 1875,

CALDWELL & BRERLON, Solicitors for the above named Trustees, 29, Queen's Road,

Hongkong.

IN THE SUPREME COURTOF HONGKONG, Foreign Attachment.

Suit No. 1.

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Plaintiffs.-HUGH BOLD GIBB, HENRY LowCock, JAMES Mus- CHAMP VICKERS, ALEX- ANDER GEORGE WOOD and ALEXANDER MCLEOD, trad- ing under the Style or Firm of "Gibb, Livingston and Com- pany at Hongkong. Defendants.-WONG CHUN HING and WONG PING, Masters of the "Tye Cheong Loong" Firm. OTICE is hereby given that a Writ of For- eign Attachment against all the Property moveable or immoveable of the above named Defendants within the Colony, has been issued in this Suit pursuant to the Provisions of Section LXXXII of "The Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure."

NOTI

Dated this 9th day of January, 1875.

CALDWELL & BRERETON, Solicitors for the Plaintiffs, 29, Queen's Road, Hongkong.

CHINESE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT LOAN.

For £627,615 Sterling.

FIRST ISSUE, £539,748. 18s. Od. STERLING.

Interest.

per cent per Annum, payable in Foochow on 19th June and 19th December of each year till 1884 inclusive.

The Corresponding dates in Hongkong are 30th June and 31st December, in each year.

The Corresponding dates in London are 19th August and 19th February, in each year.

Principal.

Repayable in Foochow, 3/20ths on 19th June, 1876 thereafter 1/20th every 6 months. Bonds to be drawn in London, first drawing to take place during the month of June, 1876.

All pay- ments of Interest and Repayment of Principal are to be made through the Hongkong & Shang- hai Banking Corporation.

Security.

Certain portions of the Imperial Foreign Mari- time Customs Revenues of China, assigned to the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation in trust for the Bondholders.

Issue Price.

Ninety-five per cent at Exchange 4/14 per dollar ($462.94).

The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpo- ration will receive Subscriptions in Hongkong and in Shanghai for 3,000 Bonds of £100 each, or £300,000 of the above Eight per cent Chinese Imperial Government Loan, repayable at par by drawings in London: the first drawing to take place during the month of June, 1876, thereafter every Six Months until the Loan is paid off.

The Bonds are to Bearer and are of £100 caclı. They will be dated Hongkong, 31st December, 1874.

Subscriptions will be received by the above Bank at the price of £95 per £100 Bond, with exchange 4/1 per dollar, Hongkong Currency, payable in the following instalments :--- £ 1 or $ 4.87 per Bond on application, £ 4 or $19.49

on allotinent. £90 or $438.58

£95 or $462.94

10 days after allotment.

The Subscription Lists in Hongkong and Shanghai will close at 1 p.in. on Saturday the 16th January 1875, after which time no Subs- criptions will be received.

Interest on the full nominal amount of each Bond acernos in Hongkong from the 31st De- cember 1874. Subscribers have to pay Interest on the same amount at Eight per cent annum from that date until the date of payment of the last instalment.

per

Subscribers may pay up in full on allotment. Public drawings for the redemption at par of the Bonds are to be made in London in the months of June and December of each year, beginning in June 1876, in presence of the Bank's London Manager and of a Notary Public. The Bouds drawn will be paid off at par, and the numbers will be duly advertised in at least two of the principal London Newspapers and the Hongkong Government Gazette.

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The Coupons and Drawn Bonds are payable at the Office of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation in Hongkong and at its Branches in London and elsewhere.

These Bonds are issued in the name of the Imperial Government of China under authority granted to the above Bank by His Imperial Ma- jesty the Emperor of China by articles of agree- ment made at Foochow on the 28th day of Novem- ber 1874, and Principal and Interest are secured by the hypothecation of certain portions of the aceruing Imperial Foreign Maritime Customs Revenues of the Ports of Canton, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai, Kiukiang, Chinkiang, Chefoo, Tientsin and Newchwang, to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Trust for the Bondholders.

The Imperial Government of China has no Foreign debt, and its Foreign Customs Revenues exceed Ten Millions of Taels annually (£3,000,000 Sterling.)

Copies of the articles of agreement and papers relating thereto, and of the Form of Bond, may be seen at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation's Offices in Hongkong and Shang- hai, where copies of the Prospectus and Forms of Application may be obtained.

Default of payment of any instalment will rend- er all previous payments liable to forfeiture.

Where a less amount is allotted than was applied for, the Surplus of the deposit will be applied, in whole or in part, as the case may be, towards the payment of the amount due on allot-

ment.

Provisional Certificates to Bearer for £100, each, dated Hongkong the 31st December 1874, will be issued on payment of the last instalment, and the surrender of the receipts for the previous instalments; and these certificates will be ex- changed for Bonds to Bearer, with Coupons at- tached at the first half yearly payment of Interest.

CHINESE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT LOAN.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Chief Mannger,

S..

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. Having paid to you the Sum of £...

or

being a deposit of £1 or $4.87 per Bond (£100) on Eight per cent Chinese Imperial Government Loan Bonds (1st issue)...... beg to apply for such Bonds in terms of the Pros- pectus and

agree to accept the same, or any smaller number that may be alloted and to pay the further instalments thereon, at the times stated in the Prospectus.

.....

Name (in full), Address,

Date,

If it be desired to pay up in full on allotment, the applicant to sign underneath.

ment.

Received of

£

desire to pay up in full on allot-

Signature,...

BANK'S RECEIPT.

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the sum of being a deposit

Eight

or $...... of £1 per Bond on application for per cent Chinese Imperial Government Loan Bonds (1st issue.)

£

For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,

Chief Manager.

or $

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr.

Port and in China cease from this day.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 31st December, 1874.

NOTICE.

TRICHARD LOVETT CULLER in our Firm Interest and Responsibility of Mr.

censed yesterday, and Mr. JAMES BROWN MCCULLOCH is admitted a Partner from this date.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Manila, 1st January, 1875.

NOTICE.

MR. HENRY LISTON DALRYMPLE, and Mr.

JOHN GORDON TALBOT HASSELL have this day been adinitted Partners in our Firm.

Mr. GEORGE HALES is authorized to sign our Firm by procuration at Fooelow.

BIRLEY & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1876.