Holding in Company

Martin Currie High Income Trust PLC
7 August 2000


Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1   Name of company:
Martin Currie High Income Trust

2   Name of shareholder having a major interest:
Aberdeen Asset Managers

3   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial
interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that
person's spouse or children under the age of 18:
As in (2) above

4   Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them:
Aberdeen High Income Trust - 5,700,000 (15.20%)
Danae Investment Trust - 150,000 ( 0.40%)
Jove Investment Trust - 300,000 ( 0.80%)
Aberdeen Preferred Income Trust - 2,365,000 (6.31%)
Enhanced Zero Investment Trust - 881,000 ( 2.35%)
Second St. David's Investment Trust - 750,000 (2.00%)
Jersey Phoenix Trust - 350,000(0.93%)
Private Clients Jersey - 95,000 (0.25%)
Aberdeen Fund of Investment Trusts (Unit Trusts) - 0 (0.00%)
Leveraged Income Fund - 0 (0.00%)

5   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:


6   Percentage of issued class:


7   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:
600,000

8   Percentage of issued class:
1.60%

9   Class of security:
Ordinary shares 25p

10  Date of transaction:
04 August 2000

11  Date company informed:
07 August 2000

12  Total holding following this notification:
10,591,000

13  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:
28.24%

14  Contact name for queries:
Jan Wilson

15 Contact telephone number:
0131 479 4774

16  Name of company official responsible for making notification:
Martin Currie Investment Management Limited

17  Date of notification:
07 August 2000




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