DATE.
6 A.M.
188
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30т MARCH, 1872.
WEATHER TABLES FOR THE WEEK ENDING 29TH MARCH, 1872.
REGISTER AT HARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE, PRAYA WEST.
GA.M.
NOON.
6 P.M.
THERMOMETER.
1872.
Baro-
meter.
Thermo- meter.
Baro- Thermo- meter. meter.
Self Registering.
Baro-
meter.
Thermo- meter.
Min.
Max.
March
23
""
"
"2
"1
REGAR
30.02
24
30.02
25
29.98
65
26
30.00
27
29.98
28
29.98
29
30.09
8888888
65
29.97
76
65
30.00
73
30.00
65
30.02
67
29.98
65
30.00
62
30.01
RRREROK
64
78
29.96
64
78
29.97
69
73
65
75
29.95
69
74
64
76
29.99
79
65
79
29.93
69
66
80
29.99
66
77
61
77
29.98
ROSRESS
70
72
71
65
"
9 A.M.
BAROMETER.
*NOON
3 P.M.
G P.M.
6 A.M.
HYGROMETER,
DRY BULB.
WET BULE.
"NOON
6 P.M.
REGISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK.
Height above Sea Level 1,823 feet.
THERMO-
METER.
GA.M.
NOON.
♡
6 P.M.
Self Registering
Min. Max
NOON.
WINDS.
RAIN.
6 A.M.
Dirn.
NOON.
Force, range from 0 to 12.
6 P.M.
In inches during the previous 24 hours,
REMARKS AS TO WEATHER,
9 А.М.
F. Dirn. F. Diri. F.
1872.
Mar. 23 28.23 28.24 28.26 28.20) 28.19) 65.005.5 | 66.0 65.0 65.566.0 64.5 66.5
0
S
1
0.06
33
24 28.24 28.25 28.27 28.20 28.18, 64.0 | 66.0 65.0 63.5 65.5 63.5 63.5 66.5 E
i
? E
3 E
2
0.03
Overcast: 8 A.M., slight rain thunder and
lightning, then low passing fog all day.
Fog; 12 noon, fine cloudy hazy.
25 28.70 28.25 28.26 28.22 28.18 63.0 65.0 64.0 62.0 64.0 63,062.0 68.0 E
3 SE
2 SE
0.00
Fog; 7 A.M., fine.
74
F
!
¡
2628.20 28.25 28.26 28.21 28.20 63.0
66.5 66.5 62.0 65.5 65.0 62.0 69.5 E
5 SE
SE
0.00
Low passing fog; 2 P.M., fine cloudy.
"2
!
27 28.20 28.24 28.22 28.20 28.17, 65.0 69.0 68.0 65.0 66.0 64.5 64.0 69.0 E
3 EbN
4
E
0.00
Fog: 9 A.M., fine hazy; 3 P.M., cloudy.
39
25
28 28.18, 28.20 28.19 28.17 28.16 64.0 63.0 €3.0 63.0 63.0 62.5 63.0 69.5 E
59.0 57.0 55.0 56.5 55.0 54.5 64.5 NE 29 28.20 28.20 28.28 28.24 28.25 56.5
5 E
3 E
3
0.06
Wet fog drizzly rain all day.
t
4 N
2 ENE
3
0.61
Fine cloudy.
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COURT OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
T is hereby notified that the next Sitting of the above named Court will be held on Tuesday, the Second April, 1872, at 10 o'clock.
IT
A.M.
By Order of the Court,
HENRY J. HOLMES,
Clerk of Court.
Court House,
Hongkong, 30th March, 1872.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.
N
"OTICE.—LUM TAK-KEE, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Trader, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for adjudication of Bankruptcy, filed in the Supreme Court of Hongkong in Bankruptcy, on the Eigh- teenth day of March, 1872, is hereby required to surrender himself to William Hastings Alex- ander, Esquire, the Registrar of the said Court, at the first Meeting of his Creditors, to be held before the said Registrar on Wednesday, the Third day of April next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at the said Court.
The said William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, is the Official Assignee, and Messrs. Edmund Sharp & Toller are the Solicitors acting in the Bankruptcy.
A public sitting will be appointed by the said Court for the said Bankrupt to pass his last examination, of which sitting notice will be given in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
At the first Meeting of Creditors, the Registrar will receive the proofs of the Debts of Creditors, and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.
All Persons who have possession of any of the Effects of the said Bankrupt must deliver the same to the Official Assignee, and all Debts due to the said Bankrupt must be paid to the said Official Assignee.
W
HEREAS by Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, dated the 20th day of February, 1858, the exclusive Privilege was granted unto Sir William Thomson his executors administrators and assigns of using a certain Invention of Improvements in testing and work- ing Electric Telegraphs. AND WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent of this Colony dated the 6th day of January, 1871, the exclusive right
to use the said Invention in this Colony was unto the said William Thomson. granted AND WHEREAS on the 19th day of May, 1871, the said William Thomson filed in Her Majesty's Patent Office in England, a certain Disclaimer and Memorandum of alteration rela- tive to the said Invention. AND WHEREAS on the 28th day of February instant, the said William Thomson filed in the office of the Colo- nial Secretary of this Colony, an Office Copy of the said Disclaimer and Memorandum of altera- tion. NOTICE is hereby given that such Office Copy has been so filed as aforesaid, and that it is intended that the said Disclaimer and Memoran- dum of alteration shall enure to the benefit of the said Letters Patent of this Colony so granted as aforesaid, and any extension thereof.
Dated this 23rd day of March, 1872.
EDMUND SHARP & TOLLER, Solicitors to the Patentee.
Supreme Court House.
WE
NOTICE. HEREAS pursuant to the Provisions of
Ordinance No. 14 of 1862, the following Petitions to His Excellency the Governor in Council have together with the specifications and declarations required by the said Ordinance, been filed in the Office of the Colonial Secretary, that is to say :-
A Petition by Sir William Thomson, praying for an extension for the period of 8 years of certain Letters Patent of this Colony dated the 6th day of January, 1871, in respect of a certain invention for "Improvement in testing and working Electric Telegraphs," the like extension having been granted in respect of corres- pouding Letters Patent in England. A Petition by the said Sir William Thomson, praying for Letters Patent for the exclu- sive right to use within this Colony a certain Invention for "Improvement in transmitting, receiving, and recording in- struments for Electric Telegraphs." Notice is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor has appointed Monday, the 1st day of April next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for a sitting of the Executive Council at the Offices of the Government for the purpose of en- tertaining the said Petitions and that at such sitting of the Council applications will be made
for such extended Letters Patent and Letter Patent respectively.
Dated this 23rd day of Marchi, A.D. 1872.
EDMUND SHARP & TOLLER, Solicitors for the Pititioner,
Supreme Court House.
IN THE SUPREME COURTOF HONGKONG. WILLIAM RUDOLPH LANDSTEIN,
Plaintiff,
Between
and
FRANCISCO ABELLA, and F.
IBANEZ, Defendants.
HEREAS an Action has been commenced in this Court, at the suit of the above named William Rudolph Landstein against the above named Francisco Abella and F. Ibanez, (in the Writs herein called F. Ibanez), to recover Twenty-five thousand Dollars, being the esti- mated damages for the non-fulfilment of a charter- party entered into by the said Francisco Abella and F. Ibanez, with the said William Rudolph Landstein, trading under the style or firm of Landstein & Company, as Agents for the Owners of the ship or vessel called the Manila, for the conveyance of Chinese Emigrants from Macao to Havannah, and it being alleged that the said Francisco Abella and F. Ibanez do not reside within this Island or its Dependencies, a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Tenth day of April, One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-two, wherein the Honora- ble James Greig, of Hongkong, and the Hong- kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at Hongkong aforesaid, are Garnishees.
Notice is hereby given thereof, and that if at any time before final judgment in this Action, the said Francisco Abella and F. Ibanez, or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island entituled "An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against Persons absent from the Colony," the said Attachment may be dissolved.
Dated this Twenty-second day of March, 1872.
WM. H. BRERETON, Plaintiff's Attorney.
M
NOTICE.
R. JAMES BANKS TAYLOR retired from
our Firm, 31st December, 1871.
SMITH, ARCHER & Co. Hongkong, 17th February, 1872.
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