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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH APRIL, 1868.

In re WILLIAM FRANCIS MURRAY, En-

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gineer, deceased.

CHUN-FAI, Trader, deceased. CHUN-AHANG, Trader, deceased.

EDWARD BAILEY, Boarding-house-

keeper, deceased,

[OTICE is hereby given to the next of Kin, and all other Persons, to produce any Wills or Codicils of the above named parties, de- ceased, that may be in their possession, before the Court of Frobate, on Monday, the Fourth day of May, A.D. 1868; or, if none, that the next of Kin' do accept, or refuse Letters of Administration, failing which Letters of Admi- nistration will be granted to the Registrar of the said Court, or such other person as the Court may think fit.

By the Court,

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Meeting of the

Creditors of Frederick Timothy Smith, late of Victoria, Hongkong, Broker, will be held, pursuant to the 151st Section of the Bankruptcy Ordinance 1864, in the Supreme Court, on Thursday the 30th day of April, 1868, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, before William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, Registrar of the Supreme Court, being the Officer appointed by the Supreme Court sitting in Bankruptcy.

At the said Meeting the official Assignee will, in pursuance of the 151st Section of the said Ordinance, submit a Statement of the Bankrupt's Estate recovered and outstanding, and of all receipts and all payments made or to be made thereout, and the Creditors at the said Meeting will, in pursuance of the said Sertion, declare whether any and what part of the nett produce

NOTICE.

COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MARITIMES

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MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.

Paquebots Paste Français.

INDIA AND CHINA LINES, HONGKONG AGENCY.

STEAM FOR

SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES,

ALSO, BOMBAY, PONDICHERRY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA.

TTRICE, Commandant MACAIRE, will HE Company's Steam-ship "IMPERA-

leave this Port for the above places, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, shortly after the arrival of the Steamer “DUPLEIX,” expected from Shanghae on or about the 26th instant.

Cargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit | through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.

Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M. of the 26th Instant, Specie and Parcels until 5 P.M. of the 26th Instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.)

For further particulars apply at the Company's Office, Queen's Road.

C. BERTRAND, Principal Agent. Hongkong, 16th April, 1868.

of the Estate of the said Bankrupt, after making MR

a reasonable deduction for future contingencies, shall be divided amongst the Creditors, aud whether any and what allowance shall be paid to the said Bankrupt. Proofs of Debts will be received, and Creditors who have not proved, or who shall not then prove, will be excluded from the benefit of the dividend, and all claims not proved will be disallowed.

F. S. HUFFAM, Official Assignee.

Hongkong, April 15th, 1868.

IN THE SUPREME COURT

OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.

NOTICE NICHOLAS Buy of HDENNYS,

of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, late Printer, Publisher an↑ Newspaper Proprietor, trading and carrying on business in Victoria aforesaid, under the style or firm of A. Shortrede and Company, but now an editor connected with the China Mail Office, Victoria aforesaid, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for adjudication of Bankruptcy, filed in the Supreme Court of Hongkong in Bankruptcy on the Twentieth day of March, A.D. 1868, a Public Sitting for the said Bankrupt to pass his last examination and make application for his dis- charge, will be held before the Honorable John Smale, Esquire, Chief Justice of the said Court, at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, Hong- kong, on the Twenty-second day of April, in- stant, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon precisely.

At this Meeting, Proofs of the Debts of the Creditors will be received.

Frederick Sowley Huffam, Esquire. acting Deputy Registrar of the Court, is the Official Assignee, and Mr. William Gaskell is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.

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Supreme Court House, Hongkong,

the 9th day of April, A.D. 1808.

NOTICE.

THE interest and responsibility of Mr. JOHN

FALCONER ROSE in our Firm, ceased on the 1st instant.

MACEWEN & Co.

Hongkong, 6th April, 1868.

NOTICE.

R. EMII. VOGEL and Mr. HEINRICH KIRCHHOFF become this day Partners in our business, which in future will be carried on under the Firm of

VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co., both bere and at Cauton.

HAGEDORN & Co. Hongkong, 12th February, 1868.

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NOTICE.

R. JAMES BILLINGTON COUGHTRIE is authorized to sign our Firm per procura- tion from this date.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st April, 1868.

NOTICE.

H THE interest and responsibility of Mr. J. KRUMMENACHER in our Firm ceased on

the 31st December, 1867.

SANDER & Co. Hongkong, 8th February, 1867.

NOTICE.

IIE Undersigned have been appointed Agents

Association,

GILMAN & Co. Hongkong, 7th March, 1868.

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NOTICE.

R. JOHN HOW CHEVERTON is authorized

to sign our Firm per procuration.

ALFRED WILKINSON & Co. Hongkong, 21st February, 1868.

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NOTICE.

HE Interest and responsibility of Mr. A. D. MITCHELL in our Firm ceased on the 31st day of December, 1867.

A. FERGUSON & Co. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1868.

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date.

NOTICE.

R. HUGH SUTHERLAND is authorized to sign our Firm per procuration from this

JOHN FORSTER & Co. Foochow, 7th January, 1868.

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NOTICE.

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THE interest and responsibility of Mr. A. FER- GUSON in our Firm ceased on the 1st day of November, 1866.

A. FERGUSON & Co.

The business will henceforth be carried on un- der the same name by the undersigned.

A. D. MITCHELL. J. D. MEYERS. HENRY FEHRS.

Hongkong, 16th December,1867.

NOTICE.

MR. THOMAS PYKE has this day been ad-

a Partner in our Firm.

BIRLEY & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1868.

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COPPER PLATE PRINTING. ARTIES having their own engraved Plates may have VISITING CARDS printed from them, by applying at the Office of

NORONHA & SONS.

NOW READY AND FOR SALE. TABLE

Shewing the Proposed Movements, Homeward and Outward, of the Mail Steam Packets

OF THE

P. & O. Steam Navigation Co.,

FOR THE YEAR 1868, Neatly printed en Card Board. PRICE $1 per copy.

"Government Gazette Office,"

Hongkong, 1st February, 1868.

NOW READY AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR for 1868;

Table of Arrivals of P. & O. Co.'s Mail Steamers,

and

Complete Tables of the Rates of Postage, The whole neatly printed on Card Board.

PRICE $1 per copy.

"Government Gazette Office,” Hongkong, 28th December, 1867.

FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,

LIST OF

STAMP DUTIES,

(revised and approved by F. W. MITCHELL, Esquire, Collector of Stamp Duties,)

CONTAINING ALSO

A DIGEST OF PENALTIES,

AND

RULES OF THE STAMP OFFICE.

PRICE-50 cents per copy. "Government Gazette Office," Hongkong, 28th December, 1867.

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE."

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Terms of Advertising:

For 5 Lines and under, $1.00 Each Additional line, $0.20

In Chinese-For 25 Characters for 1st insertion.

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Unless otherwise ordered, all advertisements will be repeated until countermanded.

Advertisements intended for insertion should be sent in not later than 3 P.M. on Saturdays.

"Government Gazette" Office,

Hongkong, 6th January, 1866.

Printed and Published by NORONHA & SONS. Printers to Hongkong Government, Oswald's TERRACE, WELLINGTON STREET.