Telegrams sent mainly to Augustine Heard & Co., Hong Kong, from correspondents in Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Boston, Lyon and London, April-May 1875, regarding the execution of a deed of assignment of the firm's property (stock in trade, debts and effects) to James Whittall and Theophilius G. Linstead as trustees for the firm's creditors. There are also related declarations by the creditors of Augustine Heard & Co., sent from Shanghai, Yokohama or no specified location, 1875, assenting to the appointment of the trustees; a copy of a letter from J[ohn] Heard to C[harles] E. Parker, Boston, 5 May 1875; and an envelope labelled 'Assents to Deed A H & Co'. There are twenty-four items in total.