Intimations.
THE HONGKONG STEAM WATER BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an
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EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Hongkong Steam Water Boat Company, Limited, will be held at the REGISTERED OFFICES of the Company, No. 37, Connaught Road, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on THURSDAY the 2nd day of September, 1904, tra Noon, for the purpose of considering and if thought fit passing the sub joined special Resolutions,
་་་་
Should the said Resolutions be passed by the required majority they will be submitted for confirm tion as special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
Dated 13th day of September, 1904.
By Order of the Consulting Committee,
J. W. KEW,
Manager,
1. That it is expedient to acquire and take over by way of amalgamation the business and undertaking of Messrs. Lane Crawford and Company of sup, lying fresh water to ships and, vessels in the Harbour of Hongkong, and that the provisional agreement for the purpose sub. mitted to this Meeting be and is hereby approv ed and that the Manager and Consulting Com- mittee of this Company he and they are hereby authorised to adopt and ratify the said agree- ment and to carry the same into effect and to affix the Common Seal of this Company there- to with full power to assert to any modifica tions in the agreement which they may think expedient in the interests of this Company either before or after the adoption thereof, and that if the nid agreement becomes absolute the Consulting Cominhtee be and they are here
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 1904.
Intimations,
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF
AND GODOWN.CO., .LD.
NORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
[OTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-, of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, will be held at Messrs. Jart'ne, Mahe on & Co.'s Offices, Pedder Street, Victoria, longkong, on THURS DAY, the 22nd day of September, 1904, at 12.15 F.M, when the subjoined Resolutions which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 31st diy of August, 1974, will be submitted for confirms tion as Special Resolutions
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA
Following is the Thirty-Eighth, Report of The Draka shosen Kaisha (The) Osaka Mercantile Steamship Company Limited) pro- ordinary general meeting, held at Osaks, on sented to the Shareholders at the half-yearly
and July-
Gentlemen:-The directors have pleasure in submilling to you the annexed statement of accounts for the half-year ending sotti June, 1904.
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GIRLS WHO ARE 100 PREITY. ||||
There are many honourable callings (says the London Daily Chronicle) in which good looks bring their owners a distinct advantage. It is where women are themselves the employ- ers that the plainlyoung person scores,
Tho pretty governess is a greater favourite in fiction than in reality. Enquiries at the best- known Registries show that she has few patro nesses
"Don't send me a good-looking girl, as 1
As you aware, the past half-year has been an have udmantled sons," write some ladies, quite exceptional one. A large number of the com-frankly. And whether they openly state their piny's sleamers have been placed under Go- preferences or not, the irrefutable fact remains That the Capital of the Company be in-vernment charter, on account of the outbreak of that the plain are chosen and the pretty left. creased from $1,500,000 '0 $1,000,00by the present war, and to replace them we have the creation of 10,000 New Shares of had to charter very many steamers in order to $50 each.
maintain without cessation all the company's regular services.
2. That such New Shares be issued at a premium of $30 per share and be offered to those persons who are registered as Shareholders of the Company on at October, 1934, in the proportion of one New Share for every complete three shares held by them op 1st October, 3.That the amount due for the New Shares shall be called up on 31st December,
1904.
1904, Dited the 2nd September, 1904.
By Order of the Board,
EDWARD OSBORNE, Secretary,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
Such charter money amounted to Yen 752,971, which caused Yen 987,org.excess in expenditure during this term, but notwithstand in this, the directors are pleased to be able to report that the result of the half year's working shows a considerable increase, say:-Yen 4,427.554 during this term, being Yen 1,154.274 more than that of last term.
In accordance with the Article No. 5 of the Articles of Association of the company as revised in January of 1900, viz., to increase 5,500,000 yen, to the present capital of 5,500,000 yen raising it to 1,000,000 yen, on the con dition that the time of issuing new shares is to be decided by further confirmation at the sext
All the same, few women would not, for
themselves, prefer to be good-looking, and in
reality
Intimations.
IN THE SUPREME COURT:
HONGKONG,
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
|__________Intimations.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
FRESH ARRIVALS.
IN THE GOODS OF SIR EDWARD JAMES BY GIVING A VERY LARGE ORDER,
· ACKROYD, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has,
No. 3 of 1897, made an Order limiting the time by virtue of Section 58 of Ordinance
for
WE HAVE SECURED THE
Creditors and others to sead in their Claims CO-OPERATION against the above Estate to the 8th October, 1904
All Creditors are accordingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that date.
Dated the gth day of July, 1904.
DEACON, LOOKER & DEACON, 820] Solicitors for the Administrator.
HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
THE DRAWBACKS OF BEAUTY are far less than is here implied. It is the pretty girl who gets on in the world-the girlTHE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING with bright eyes, red lips, and checks like a TH spring rose. It is the pretty girl who marries Hongkong Hotel, on WEDNESDAY, the 28th OF MEMBERS will be held in the first, and for good reason. Beauty is the mark September, at 5.30 P.M. of health. It is wonderful what a difference a
H. F. CHARD, little new blood makes to a woman, The pale,
Hon. Secretary tired, anæmic girl who sets her health in order
Hongkong, 17th September, 1904. 11045 with Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people often discovers, to her own surprise, that she has become pretty as well as strong after a little while. Many a flower is
BORN, TO BLUSH UNSEFN:
OF THE MAKERS OF THE
APOLLO
MASTER PLAYERS"
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, IN LOWERING THEIR PRICES, AND
WE NOW OFFER THEM FROM
LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT
by empowered to increase the Capital of thisHE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING Xeneral meeting, we now propose that owing many a girl is pretty without knowing it. The In Casks of 375 lbs.net $5.00 per Cask
Company to $150,000 by the creation of 7.500 new shares of fro cach to be issued as fully paid up shares and to be allot ed to Mesars, Lane, Crawford and Company in consideration of the sale by them to the Compa y of their business of supplying fresh water to ships and vessels in the larbour of tongkong.
That the Articles of Association be altered
in the following marner-
The following article shall be substituted for Article 63, nnmely:-
63 Joseph Whiteley Kew shall be the Manager of the business of the Company and shall be entitled to hold office for the term of five years from the 1st day of October, 1904, and he shall have the option at the expiration of the said term of five years of being the Manager of the busin sn of the said Company for a further period of five years provided he exercise his said option in writing not less than six months prior to the expiration of the said first term af five years. During the said term of five years and the further term of Give years the said Joseph Whiteley Kew may resign at any time upon giving to the Consult ing Comm tlee six calendar months' previous notice in writing of his intention so to do. The said Joseph Whiteley Kew shall once during the said term of five years and once during the further term of five yenes (if he shall then be Manager of the business of the Company) be entitled to leave of absence for a period of six calendar months. The said Joseph Whiteley Kew while holding the said office shall (ave as aforesaid) reside in Hongkong.
The following anicle shall be substituted for Article 66, namely
66. As remuneration for his services the said
of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Com- pany will be held at the Company's Offices, on VFDNESDAY, the 28th September, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1904.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will he CLOSED from the 19th to the 28th September, both days inclusive,
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co, General Managers. Hongkong, 13th September, 1901.
to favourable state of the present Gnancial market, the scheme be at once carried out, on Condition that application for the tiew shares to close on the 15th October next, and the first instalment for the same to be made before the 1st November next.
The gross profits of the company for the past half year amount to Yen 1,027,772 out of which there have been paid :-
Reserve fund for underwriting ships... 169,000 Reserve fund for repairing ships......... 224,000 [1031 Reparation for deterioration in ships... 188,000
A. S. WATSON & CO, LIMITED,
Issue of 30,00 NEW SHARES OF STO EACH.
Yen 581,000
leaving a balance of Yen 466,773 including Yer: 287,060 brought forward from the last account fer appropriation,
The directors now propose that Yen 23,500 be added to the reserve fund, raising it to Yen
DUSUANT Resolution the General Managers of, H. WATSON & Company, Limited, herchy invite applications from the Shareholders of the Company for the issue of 30,000 new shares of Ste each at a Premiuin of 280.ico and Yen 22 500 be allowed as directors'
to per cent, or $ti a share.
Each Registered Shareholder on the 28th day of September, oi, applying for the New Issue will be entitled to one share for every two shares gisi. red in his name. Shares not applied for by those entitled to apply will be dealt with by the General Managers in accordance with Article 40 of the Company's Articles of Association.
Applications for Shares in the New Issue will receiied by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation In Hongkong from the 1994, both days inclusive, and 1'e whole amount 28th September, 1904, to the 30th September," of $1 per share will be payable on application. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 18th September, 1904, to the 8th October, 1904, both days inclusive.
The present paid-up Capital of the Company is $600,000, divided into 600 shares of $to cach, and the New Issue is required to increase the Capital of the Company to Soooooo divided into go,con shares of $to each,
Joseph Whiteley Kew shall be paid by the Company a salary of $500 per month payable on the last day of every month and he shall further be paid a yearly bonus of two and a half per cent on the net profit of the Company as shewn and declared by the Company's annual balance sheet. The said Joseph Whiteley Kew shall be entitled to his said remuneration whilst on leave of absence. As remuneration for their services all subsequent Managers shall be paid such a salary ai the Consulting Committee or the Company in General Meeting ball determine, Every Manager shall be re-imbursed out of the Comable in May, 1905. pany's funds all moneys properly expended by him on the Company's behalf.
The following article shall be substituted for article 76, namely:-
76. There shall be a Consulting Committee consisting of not less than two or more than four members of the Company. Alfred Hol land Skelton, a member of the firm of Lane, Crawford and Comp ny, or in case of his death or absence from Hongkong one of the mem- bers of the firm of Lane, Crawford and Com pany for the time being, shall be a permanent member of the Consulting Committee and shall be 'antitled to retain office so long as Messrs, Lane, Crawford and Company holds not less than 100 shares in the Company.
The whole of the premium received from the New Issue will be placed to the Credit of the Permanent Reserve Fund.
The New issue will rank for Dividend for the three months ending 1st December, 1994, pay Forms of application for the New Issue can be obtained at the Company's Offices in Alex- andra Buildings or as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong, Shanghai, and London.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
Hongkong, 22nd June, 1904.
ROYAL AERATED WATERS.
MANUFACTORY,
and auditors' fees,.
From the remainder the directors recom mend a dividend at the rate of ten per cent (10%) per annum, which absorb Yen 375,000.
The balance Yen 408,833 will be carried to the next account.
TOKUGORO NAKAHASHI, Chairman,
Head Office, Otaka, z2nd July, 1904.
vitality and colour given by the new blood these
ex Factory, ' pills make is capable of working a marvellous In Bags of 250 lbs. net $8.20 per Bag transformation. Consider, for example, the
ex Factory. case of Miss Stone, of Higher-street, Cullomp. ton. About eighteen months ago, she was a
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. pale, listless girl, thin, anæmic, languid, always
Hongkong, 2nd September, 1904, tired. Her lips had become white; she was like a walking ghost. This is her own mother's EXCURSION TO MACAO. description of her.
"Her father and 1," Mrs. Stone"continued, "determined to try what Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people would do for her. To our great surprise and joy she showed signs of re- turning vigour after she had taken the pills but confirm all that her parents say, "My appetite a few days." This young lady's own words improved very rapidly," she said, "and I felt
much better after a few doses. My colour scan came back, and after taking two or three, bottles exercise which I much enjoy, but which I had I felt as well as ever, and was able to cycle, an
had to give up owing to my weakness. Within two or three months I was quite robust again."
ÁNÆMIA, OR "TOO LITTLE BLOOD."-To be anamic is not only one of the most uncom. fortable states of ill-health, causing pale lips, dull, bloodshot eyes, Headaches, Indigestion, breathlessness, and utter want of energy and strength, but it is also very dangerous. Those who are anemic easily catch cold, and are con the high road to Consumption. Purgatives only make them worse. Anemia is not cured ....................Y $,500,000 by trying to get rid of the biliousness and sick
4.592,000
headaches which it causes: New Blood is 698,012 157,600 needed. Purgatives impoverish the blood. Dr.
BALANCE SHEET.
Liabilities.
C-pital account:~210,000 shares at Debentures ......................
Y25.00 Reserve fund for insurance`.......... Reserye fund for repairs.............. Reserve fund........
Arrears to the Government-yearly
Instalment.....am peeper esem
Securities.............. Ship's valite payable e Deposits Unsettled account.................... Unpaid debenture Chattels account...... Unpaid debenture interest....... Unpaid dividends Unpaid bonus
THE Splendid Steamer
"YING KING,*
Captain Page, will make an EXCURSION TRIP TO MACAO, on EVERY SUNDAY, waving the Company's wharf at the end of Wing Lok Street, at 8.30 A.M., and returning from Macao at 7,50 P.M.
Perseverance's what at Macao.
The Steamer will lay alongside the S.S.
FARE:
1st Class Single Ticket 87.00, with Cabin $3.00
1 Return 11 $3.00, 11
$5,00 Tiffin and Dinner may be had on Board at $1 each meal.
YÜK ON & Co., LD.
S. A, NORONHA, Macao Agent.
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Inngkong, 2nd September, 1904, THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED,
HONGKONG EXCHANGE.
159,860 Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People make new SUBSCRIPTIONS.
blood. That is how they have cured not only 374,592 Anemia, but also Consumption, Decline, 91,531 Biliousness, Indigestion, Kidney Disease, Fits, 169,183
30,000 Eczema, and other skin troubles, St. Vitus 55,493 Dance, Paralysis, and Locomotor Ataxy. 9,286 Rheumatism is not due to poor, but it is due to
750
bad blood-blood that is impure and charged 34,685
1,748 with lactic acid. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have 30 cured more cases of Rheumatism then of any other disease, except Anemia. For women 183,060 they have proved of unrivalled value, giving 446,772
regular, comfortable health The genuine pills bear the full ..Y12,552,574
mami (seven
Amount brought forward from last Net profit for this term
termi
Total
[7 4 Value of steamers
PRODUCE the highest Olas AERATED WATERS in the Far East on account of their tigh Class Machinery and also of the superior ingredients they use in the manufacture of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., are all
strict supervision of Europeans only.
It shall be for the Company in General Meeting to determine who shall be the remain ing members for the time being of the Can-under sulting Committee and they shall be appointed once in every year by the Company in General Meeting.
Article 82 shall be cancelled. The remaining articles 83 to 123 be renum. bered 81 10 121 for reference accordingly.
In article 8 for an renumbered 83) the words The sum of $5co each per annum whilst holding office shall be substituted for the words" Shall not exceed $750 per annum to be divided between the several members "thereof in such manner as they shall agree " upon."
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NOTICE
:
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GEORGE MANINGTON, LATE OF VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF HONG KONG, JOURNALIST, Drecated.
NOTICE is hereby given that all CRE
DITORS, should send their CLAIMS. against the above Estate to the undersigned before the 16th day of October, 1904, failing which they will not be recognised.
Dated this 16th day of September, 1904,
E, A. SNEWIN,
1043]
I
Executor.
A SPECIAL SALE
WILL BE HELD AT THE
TALIAN CONVENT
on behalf of the
POOR ORPHANS
on the
2200, 23rd and 24th instant, at 2 P.M.
REPORT OF AN EXPERT.
The representative of Messrs, BRATBY and HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Aerared Water Engineers and Chemists. Manchester, visited our factory recently in the course of a tour amongst Eastern Aerated Water Makers, and factory and also the methodical way in which was greatly surprised at the compactness of our everything pertaining to the making of Aerated Waters was carried out. He also expressed him. self strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our whole establishment, which he assured us was equal to any he had yet visited and superior to a great many. He also reported that the quality of our goods was of a first class nature, and they showed that scrupulous care was exercised in the course of their manufacture.
FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point, Tel. 367. Order Books and Price List. Please apply to Depot, Ice House Street. Tel. 374. Dr.V.DANENBERG & F. P. DANENRF RG, General Managers, Hongkong, zoth May, 1904,
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LADIES AND CHILDREN'S UNDER, CLOTHING, CHILDREN'S DRESSES AND OTHER EMBROIDERED ARTICLES, Suitable for Birthday Presents, &c
The prices will be marked on every article.
The Superiorats hopes to receive and merit
DOUBLY DISTILLED
AND-OF MATURED AGE.
a large share of the public patronage, who have TO BE OBTAINED FROM
at all times given her proof of their generosity.
ITALIAN CONVENT,
Caiña Road.
Hongkong, 16th September, 1904.
1677
Assets.
Value of lightersone synualbü Land en building........... Furniture, tools and utensils.... Negotiable documents a bi Stocked commodities Contribution to Oiye Shosen Goshi Coal in stock... ...
Kwaisha........
Partial payment for steamers ander
construction Partial payment for land, buildings, and lighters under construction... Unexpired premiums Suspense account... Funds in ships and office ............ Loans and depo ita......... Freight cash in course of settlement.
Oiye Shosen Goshi Kwaisba......... (receivable from branch offices)... Freight cash in course of settlement (receivable from agencies)......... Branch offices' account Agencies' account Subsidies, etc, receivable from the
-government
quaera Insurance account receivable Cash account
21246
Y 7,527,777 words). Dr.
571,873
108,30 WILLIAMS'
71,976 PINK PILLS $13.598 FOR PALE 244,107 43.339
ALE EOPLE Registered,
FROPLE, and may be had of medicine shops, ar post free for 25. 9d. (six bottles 135. 98.), 165,000 | from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Hol-
born-viaduct, London.
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COMMERCIAL
635
37,689
47,862.
479,415
17,204
125,065
157:440 54,377
Do. Da
demand.......
"
4 months' sight
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
Selling
London-Rank T.T....
38,870 274.736
31,807 France-Bank T.T.......
401/1
PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE.
EXCHANGE LINES: $25 Per Quarter,
NO CHARGE FOR INITIAL
INSTALLATION.
N.B.A Special Charge is made for Lines ( more than averige length.
DESK TELEPHONES
For a small additional annual charge Desk
Seis can be supplied.
ELECTRIC SUPPLIES.
19.15/16
BATTERIES,
CHEMICALS,
.......2.291
1.86
1361
ELECTRIC BELLS,
INSULATORS,
.1364
332,243 America-Bank T.Tumq.444.
42,134 Germany-Ránk T.T. 1,009,160-dia T.T. .................................
169,000
Total
......Y12,552,574
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. - To reserve fund for underwriting
ships (slightly over 4.5 per cent... per annum for the actual value of nil steamers)....mangiom...Ÿ To reserve fund for repairing ships (slightly over 6 per cent par an. num for the actual value of all. steamers).....a - cookiepaja To reparation; for · deterioration" in
`ships (slightly over 6 per cent per - annum for the original value of. all steamers).
Do." demand
SWITCHES
TELEPHONES,
WIRE,
&c.,
&C...
SEND FOR PRICE LISTS.
Shanghai-Bank T.T. Japan-Bank T.T Singapore-Bank T.T.. Jara-Bank T.T
.Nominal
Buying,
4 months' sight L/C.
......$/10/
6 months' sight L/C.
.....1/:04
234,000
188,000
30 days' sight San Francisco & New York,.,45 4 months' sight
451 30 days' sight Sydney and Melbourne......1/10]
do.
To reserve fund
32,500
4 months sight France
To directors' and auditors' fea...................... To dividends to shareholders (10 per
21,500
6 months' sight.
ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS,
4 months sight Germany
i cent per annum=V1.25 per share) To amount carried forward to next
275,000
Bar Silver....
Total
******* 408,833.
Y1,309,833
Bank of England rate
OPIUM QUOTATIONS.
By profit for this term
By amount brought forward from. Meldgate Mast tormen
************ 282,000
¿Y1,309 833 We have examined the above accounts, with the books and vouchers of the company, and, find them to be correct..
TRIGO IBA.
SHOSUKE KODAMA - Auditors. -SHOTARO SÚGIMURA)
THE MUTUAL STORES,
Dot Voeux Road,
Hongkong, 11th May, 19046
[508
Osaka, joth June,
Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical Work.
$385.
NEW
CONSIGNMENT
JUST ARRIVED
WE WILL SUPPLY AN UPRIGHT
IRON GRAND AND A PIANO
PLAYER FOR $825. CASH OR
CREDIT TERMS.
These Players have been tested in Hongkong for 6 years (at Peak included) without n Single Failure, which can be said of no other Player.
THE
ROBINSON PIANO Co., Lt
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Hongkong, 12th September, 1904. THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
BARRETTO & Co., General Agents, Ilongkong.
CHAMPAGNES.
Per Case. Per Case.
I doz qts. z doz. pts.. Lucien Rozet, Carte Orange $10.00 $5.00 Victor Clicquot, Cuvee
Specialės
24.00 Lucien Rozet, Carte Blanche 38.00 Victor Clicquot, Carta Noire 30.00 Lucien Rezet, Carte d'Or... 32.00 36.00 Lucien Rozet, Selected'
SPARKLING WINES,
32.00
·
39.00
Per Case. Per Cass. I doz. qts. 2 doz. pts.
Sparkling Ducde Mousseux $16.00 Comtede Montalbert
17.00 Baron de Valmont... 19.00 Duc de Montchault 22.00
SODA WINE.
1800
20,00
Sparkling Soda Wine S2000 per Case of
4doren Soda Bottles.
BRANDIES. A
P. Beauville *** Special Selected U. V. P. C.
Per Case, I dor, qes,
...$6.00
*****
15.03,
L. ROZET & Co. BORDEAUX. SPECIAL BRANDS OF COGNAC.
Cognac, *** ............$15.00
1
S. O. P 1870 Very Old Fine Champagne Grande Fine Champagne,
Blue Ribbon
Guaranteed 12 years old Grande Fine Champagne, Green Ribbon, Guaranteed 20 years old Grande Fine Champagne, Red Ribbon, Guaranteed 30 years old
OLARETS,
St. Georget Cru Wynbion m Côtes
Montferrand
Madoo *******
St. Emilion
St. Estepho....
St. Julien,...
Malwi
Per chest
1,080/1,120
ADDRESS:~, Ice House Road,
·Old·
3,14/1,180
Older
1,200/1,280
Oldest
1,300/1.340
Patna New w
@1,050
Hongkong, Tath April, 1904.
W. STUART HARRISON,
JAPANESE BEKB "KABUTO BRANDE
Per Case of 4 dores qu
HIRANO WATER
PEACOCK BRAND,
um
Per Case of 4 dotan
Hongkong, 19th September,
22.50
31.50
4670
56.00.
Per Case.
I'dex qu
$4.00
4-30
€6,00
6.00
12:59,
13.00 13.00%