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Intimations,
G. FALCONER & Co.,
WATOH MAKERS AND JEWELLERS. HOTEL” MANSIONS.
NEW 82LOTIONS OF
DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARL HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. LARGN SELECTION OF PRESENTATION PLATE, CUPS, BOWLS, no « VALCONER & Co, Ássers vos KD88'S FAMOUS TELESCOPES AU BINOCULARS, LORD KELVINS NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ADMIRALTY OHARTS AND BOOKS.
SOLN AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER
M. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER, ENLARGEMENT ON BROMIDE PAPER
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AND FINISHED IN CRAYON.
ALL KINDS OF WORK DONE FORTM AMATEURS. VERY FINE PANORAMIC VIEWS OF HONGKONG. 8, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
WING KEE & CO.,
Nos. 47, 48 and 49, CONNAUGHT ROAD ¡CENTRAL,
PROVISION MERCHANTS, COAL RIP.CHANDLERS, SAILMAKEIS,
MERCHANTS, &., &c., OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING. SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US Å TRIAL.
FRANCISCO TSE YAT, General Manager,
Hongkong, August 12, 1908.
REMINGTON
TYPEWRITERS
WITH ALL REQUISITDA,
Houghong, March 8, 1909
SIEMSSEN & CO.,
*BOLE AGENTS,
CHAMPAGNE
THE LEADING BRAND
G.H.MUMM & C°
REIMS
BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT TO
* Logod
&&the Price of Ma
Shewan Comes & C
GENERAL AGENTS
For
HONG KONG. Canton
C
& MACAO
Hongking, Jantary 27, 1908.
SME GANDY BELT,
ENGLAND.
GANDY
GANDY'S
BELTING
BALT
MADE BY THE
MANUFG. SHACOMÈE, ENGLAND.
IS THE ONLY ORIGINAL HOLDS THE WORLD'S RECORDS. 41 Prizes Awarded.
SEE THAT YOU GET THE GENUINE ENGLISH.
Intimations.
MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
(MITSU BISHI CO.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
REPORTED CURE FOR CHOLERA.
1
Major Anatrather-Gray in the House of Comone, on Oct, 22ard, asked the Under Secretary of State for India; Whether leis attention has been called to the reported cure for cholera now in use at Shanghai with good results; and whether he will cause quo so be made with a view to coping
with this disense in India.
Mr Buchanan: The Sacrotary of State has no partículars as to the remedial trest ment of cholera reported to be adopted in Shanghai, but will cause inquiries to be
COAL DEPARTMENT. mada
SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKABIMA,
DORI, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW and KAMIYAMADA Col Hories.
SOLE AGENTS & KISHIDAKE, MI
YAO, and KIGIO-KOMATSU Ç
HEAD OFFICE":—TOKYO.
BRANCH OFFICES:- NABABA, MO, Karatsu, WAKAMATSU, Kone, Osaka, SHANGHAI, HONGKONO, HANKOW
TIL, ADDRESSES for above; IWASAKL' Codes:-A3, ABC 6th Ed., Western Unior
AGENCIES Yokohama: M. Asada, Esq. CHINKING; Mesars Oxazine & Da, MANILA: Msers MACONDRAY & Ûu.
1117
For particulare, apply to
DODGE WOOD SPLIT PULLEYS.
ALL SIZES
TO FIT AIL
SIZED SHAFTS
IN STOCK
FURTHER
HAY BE
HAD ON
APPLICATION
TO THE
PARTICULARS
SOLE AGENTS.
LCHERS
WELLINGTON
PHILADELPHIA'
EXHIBITION
KNIFE POLISH WELLINGTON SILVERSMITHS BLACK LEAD SOAP LATES
FOR CLEANING
'POLYBRILLIANT METAL POMADE NEVER BECOMES DRYŽ PARD LIKE OTHER METAL PASTES
H, 018AL
Manager, No 2, PEDDER STREET,
HONGKONG. Hongkong, August 3, 1908,
·HONGKONG-STANDREW'S SQUIETY.
ST.
ANDREW'S BALL, 90th Novembor, 1908,
and
ONE PRACTICE DANCE, WEDNESDAY, 25th Kovember, from 5 to 7 P.M.
818
CYCOTSMEN (Naral, Military, or Mam- bure of the Civil Community) desiring to Beberibe to the above are requested to forward their names to the Undersigned.
No Scotsman car attend the Dance and Practices but as a Subscriber.
DAVID WOOD,
Hon. Secretary Hongkong, October 5, 1908.
Twit deivam,OF YOU
my world 12aed
"ROBEYPHONE"
·with
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sumptuos hazapaleted &charest lige R2tis for EN USUAL SHO galos guineas.
| 1 sverly EDEDE,
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OR CREDIT, chekuri
The ny be deazer le
the word. Stupendous
bargains offered. Write
for at No. 191 TODAY.
GEORGE ROBEY,
1863
QANTON.
Any one who has ever been in Canton will feel as I do, that not to add one's little asy to what has been already said—and honestly, 1 do not think that is very much would be all but impossible. Yet where to begin! With the strange night on board the river steamer from Hongkong, when from the roomy saloon you pass along to
the space given up to the Chinesa, to the
Intimations.
ORGAN RECITAL
1T
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, Y TUESDAY, DECEMBER 167, at 6.34 r.. GERMAN COMPOSERS PROGRAMME
VOCALIST: REV. M. LONGRIDGE, RN.
held on the first Tuesday of each month.
This is the third of a series of Recitals
Hongkong, November 23, 1908.
P
WANTED-IMMEDIATELY.
1532
DRIVATE APARTMENTS (Suting- Rocm and Double Bedded-room), with board sad attendance in well Furnish. ed House in goed locality on Lower Levels.
State Terms.
Apply *BOX X. F.,'
Okra of CRIXA MAIL! Único.
1600 Hongkong, November 25, 1909.
NETHERLANDS LLOYD OF AMSTERDAM & BATAVIA. AGENTS of the above Company, are THE Undersigned having boon appointed prepared to accept Nire and Marine Risks at Current Rates
CRUZ, BASTO & CO. Hongkong, November 10, 1908. 153
THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY. LIMITED.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1908.
Intimations.
HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPART
MENT.
To Let
TO LET.
DRACUNSTIÌN ARCADE, Fise Does and Dwelling Booma.
BELILIOS TERRACE HOUSES, Roʻ REMSON ROAD,
OFFICES In Queer's Büzə OmmZIAŤ, 2. BEACONSETELD ARCADE, facing
A GODOWN in Duddell STAINT. OKÁIG RYRTE, No. 4, PEAK. No. 55, ELGIN TERRACE.
has been received from the MILITARY the Parade Ground:
hereby notified that information AUTHORITIES that GUN PRACTICE will be carried out as under: On THURSDAY, 26th November-
From Stonecutter (Central) in a North-
Westerly direction at ranges up t 7,000 yards, commencing at 7.M., and finishing at 10P.M.
.
If the weather is unfavourable on th sboro dato, Practice will take place on the following day.
All ships, junks and other youmia are to keep clear of the ranges.
6. W. BECKWITH, Lieut., R.N.,
Harbour Master, do. Hongkong. November 21, 1908.
18, QUHEN'S ROAD ÜBTRAL, First and Top Floors (over Caldbeck, Masgregor).
Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Boffinge Hongkong. Apell 12, 1904.
TO HET.
164
ERRINGTON, PELK ROAD, below
1687 DO. The Froperty is also FOR
A. 8. WATSON & 00., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.,
N INTERIM DIVIDEND an Account of the your 1908, of TmIATY CENTI
per Shers, will be fassble at the Hong. kong and Shanghai Bank, Hongkong, on, and After FRIDA, Heberge 108, on Warrants to be obtained as the Com pany's Offices.
The Dividend will also be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bauk, Shanghai, -on and after the same dato,
BALL
For particulars, apply to
1698
0, "BOHROFTHE, King's Buildings, Srd Floor. Hongkong, November 24, 1908.
TO LET,
FROM 1st March, 1908, a FURNISHED
at
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- 'MENT & AGENOY Çö., LD...
1594 Hongkong, November 23, 1908,
TO LET.
FFICES on leT FLOOR, No. 8, Ques'
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL/inolnaïve, during which period ne Transfer ROAD CENTRAL recently occupied
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an
MEETING of the above-ammed Company will be held at the Costrany's OYLOR No. 2, Lower Albern Road, Victoria, Bong kong, on TUESDAY, the let day of December, 1998, at 12.30 o'clock in the afternoon, when the subjoined Resolutions, which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 17th day of November, 1908, will be submitted for confirmation as Special Reno- Intions:
The REGISTER OF SHARES will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 24th inet., natil MONDAY, the 30th inst., both days
of Shares will be effected.
JOHN D. BUMPHREYS & BON,
General Managers, Hongkong, November 17, 1808.
NOTICE.
by the CHINA Mail,” Ltd.
For further partionlars, apply to the SECRETARY of the 'Usina Mail,' LTD., 1589 | 6. Wyndham Street.
opowded families, the impassive faces, the huddled, steeping figures? With the arriva at Cantem in the wisty morning, and the roping up at the wharf in the thick of an astonishingly squirming mass of sampans? Suupons are like broad and clurasy gondolas mado of matchwood. And usually in the very heart of the matchwood an anprotected fire blazed audaciously. Fer the hosts are the only homes of a large proportion of the population; in them they are born, in them they live, in them they die. In ther, too, as in the house, the woman rules supreme. Ten to one the turband Acting as coolie on shore, as steward in a liner, or a servant in another city. Mean.
THE Undersigned having purchased the GOODWILL, FURNITURE and while here the sturdy wife rows, cooks,
EFFEOTS of the Business of a Hotel and and brings up her children to the same 1. That the Capital of the Company be Boarding house heretofore CARRIED ON mcreased by the sum of $112,500 divided at No. 13, teen's Road Central, under -amphibious, clamouring life: the youngest into 15,060 Sharon of $7.50 ate and that the name of 'CONNAUGHT HOUSE, baby, impassivo from its start, is stapped the Directora be authorised to allot sich hereby givno action that he will NOT BE uncompinining to its mother's back, and shares pro rata among the existing Share- RESPONSIBLE for any of the Debts or holders according to the number of shares Liabilities in respect aloof prior to this rocked backwards and forwards as she in respect of which they may, on the 27th date.
L GAMEAU. rows, standing; the next baby at a pinch day of October, 1988, be registered, in the
Hongkong. September 28, 1908. acle as steersman: while a small girl is proportion of three our Shares for each complete lot of Fire Shares held by them occupied in plaiting protective scarlet braidou that date and that any of such new inte her little brother'e pigtail, with full shares remaining over after sach allotment stall be dealt with by the Directors to their and' enjoyment of mischievous twists
discretion.' tweaks.
So much for the densely packed water WAY. As for the streets, never have I seen anything so horribly wonderful or so gro- tesquely bewildering. In most of them the slimy roadway-save the mark-is-bob three feet wide, with on either side a walk about half that breadth, while even this unitow space is encroached upon by crowds of heterogeneous and many coloured and unexplained things sticking out aggressively from the walls. Overhead scarcely a strip WITH 20 SELECTIONS of sky is to be seen, said even less of the houses. They are blotted out, swamped, by balconias, by awnings, which thust them- selves forth, by fluttering signs, From three to six feet long these, and of every variety of shape and colour und design. Monstmus
£3
BEYPHONE
"LONG
The World's Provider, COVENTRY.ENGLAND, (WIDE
JAPANESE
MASSAGE,
F KAWASAKI, GRADUATE OF THE KOBE SCHOOL OF MASSAGE,
99, Queen's Road East, Wanchai, (1ST FLOOR).
1321
THE OWL GRILL ROOM HAS REMOVED
20 & 31, Dr Voor Boaó, Near the MUTUAL STORES.
2. That tho Articles of Association of the 10 MORE COMMODIOUS PREMISES Company he altered by deleting paragraph 2 of Article IX and by substituting there. for the following paragraph;
2.
The Register, or registers, of Share- holders and the Register of Trapafers may be closed for such period cr per.ocs and at auch time of times sa the Directors may think it but the period or periods such closure sball not exceed in the whole 3o days in any one year,"
By Order of the Board of Directors,
S. A. SETE,
Secretary. Hongkong, November 17, 1908.
1586
THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an
and overgrown letters apravi over them, EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL black letters on white, on scarlet: scarlet in its turn on white, on black; gold on ehocolate, green, blue, strong yellow fierce dragon's blood, angry orange,--the andzeious colours wave and glow in the veiled light.
·
SPECIAL RATES FOR MONTHLY CLEMITA. TIFFIN ...
$20 per Month. FULL BOARD ·...$40.
1
PEFFER A SMALL GOODS ALWAxs on Hand, HARRY NEWBOLD, Proprietor. Bongsung. May 19, LVOS,
764
HOW TO DO MORE, BUSINESS.
MANY AMERICANS have echt sp
Mat commercial enterprises, by the
Ba of Trade-nows items supplied by par ÖLIPPING BUREAU: Chiossa mer chants can do the same if they follow Americau methoda.
We clip business news from more than 50,000 papers monthly, and send these MEETING of the aboved-manied Company Itams to you while there is good prospect will be held at the COMPANY'S OPIOS of applying what is needed and doing No. 2, Lower Albert Road, Victoris, Hong busince. kong, on TUESDAY. the 1st day of We can send you news and clippings on December, 1908, at 12.40 o'clock in the any line of business, or any abject, and afternoon for the purpose of considering you will be able to know, IN TRUTH, 108 and, if thought fit, passing the following, what American business methods are like, Extraordinary Resolution-
and whore there are openings for Chinese That the Directors be authorised to merchandise
declare a bonus or dividend out of Suppose, for instance, you are a maker the Reserve and Cattle Reacrve of Pottery: our Clipping Bureau might Funda or out of the coumulated find in some paper an item saying that a prodita of the Company sufficient to
Hongkang, October 13, 1909.
TO LET.
CHOP, No. 14, QUEEN'S ROAD ▷ CENTRAL, on Laws.
ROSENKATA' GARDEN ROAD, Kow-
loon.
Apply to LEIGH & ORANGE Hongkong, Argant 20, 1908.
TO. LET.
BERTHOLWYN, PEAK ROAD, from A 1st March next. Excellently For- nished, Hou and Cold Water laid on Tennis Court and Swimming Bath.
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., Ir. Hongkong, November 8, 1908.
TO LET.
HOUSE I KNUTSFORD TER- A RACE, KOWLOON.
Apply to
-¿
TAX HONGKONG LAND İNVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., ED. Hongkong, November 1, 1908,
OFFICES
TO LET,
FFICES in ALEXANDRA BUIED.
INGS. Apply to
SECRETARY, A. B. WATSON, & Co., Lp..
756 Hongkong, April 23, 1907.
TO LEP.
"JODOWN No. 91, PRAYA EAST,
Apply to
CHATER & MODY,
Victoria Buildings. Hongkong, October 17, 1903,
TO LET.
1459
SQUARE FEET of LAND
Apply to
Bat it is not the river, nor the houses, nor the many-coloured signs which in Can- ten vonfound all attempts at word or any other paiating. What remain absolutely. indescribable are the swarms, the masses, the millions of yellow people who choke these marrow slits of straets, seethe along them, overwhelm your bewildered senses; Patients attended in their own Homes or the noisos, the cries, the seeming tumult the
in Hospital.
sights, the small-oh, the Canton smells! BRIBERE AND Rueumatism EPPECTIVELYDOW and utterly, quite uttarly, abroin-
CURED.
able; the horrible ment and fish-shops,—' Hongkong, November 20, 1908, 1579
sickening, putrid meat and crimeon Bal, bloodless skewered doge, dead bloated things, rats distorted, unrecognisable cre- NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE China the way we do bore. tures, such as you never saw before, and
big whoksela Pattary concern was being 70,000 with 200 foot frontage ta pay & call of $6.00 por Share upon organized in a certain town of Kowloon Bay. Moderate Rental The Now Capital already authorised course, would send you that business-pan> to be raised by Special Resolution | Item, sud dve you a chance to do buslager and that such bonus or dividend bo i with that area. appropriated for the purpose of pay- ing such call.' By Order,
CHEE WING & Co.
27, 23 and 23, LEE TUEN STREET (WEST)
HONGKONG.
DEALERS IN
All Sorta ɔt COPPER, BRASS, STEEL, IRON WARE, &c, STEAL GIRDERS AND TRES, CORRUGATED IRON, PIG IRON, &
Suitable for
SHIPS, EXCISEXES AND HOUR BULDERS
TELEPHONE NO. 769.
WEALTH:
11228
The Reward of Thrift.
WITHOUT GAMBLING:
WITHOUT SPECULATING ||
WITHOUT RISK 111
Invest Your Bavings in Government
S. A. SETH,
Secretary. Hangkong, November 17, 1908.
INSURANCE COMPANY.
£18,114,834
1636
y Leaven you may never see again. So dreadful are they, so loathsome, no disgust-OTAL FUNDS AT 31er Drones, 1907, ing, filthy, that the bare passing by could hardly be endured if there were not an occasional oasis of cleaner stuf, picturesque baskets, or china, or, best of all, piles of heaped vegetables and fruit. Never, surely, elsewhere can the green things of the earth, lettuces, onions, cabbages, lock so blessedly wholesome!
H-Authorised Capital £8,000,000-
Baterihed Capital £3,750,000 Paid-up Capital ****** £687,60K 0-0
Fire Funds 3,065,374 13. III-Life Annuity Funds 14,315,842 10 3 Sisking Fund Accommo 45,907 5 3
£18,114,824 11 1
Revenas Bira Branch... 280,653 13 7
alle & Annulty 1,847,294 18 Baking Fond Account
Brando
8,282 5 0
£4,188,159 16 11 ~~Thu kzseumulated Funds of-the-Fira sui
le Departments are free from ability t
SHEWAN, TOMTS & 00.. of each other, and be
Agents.
Mercifully, you are not called upon to walk through these intolerablo, intermin able streeta. : You are swung slong - very comfortably in covered bamboo-chairs, esch chair with its four poles—perhaps eight or ten feet long from end to end carried by thres coolics, we in front and one behind. All the time they are crying for room to be made, Oyali" being the burden of their chant, and they are THE FIRST CHINESE: NEWSPAPER angly clever in the management of their load, They never mem to touch the crowds, they burrow through, certainly never knçek over so much as one of the
quaint baby boys who, with their life st budding pigtails and elite for eyes, totter
PREMIUM BONDS. along inimitably grotesque. Fortunately,
emmene there are neither porses nor carriages sHet bra gualoméed in la pridcipat end in the streets. The overwhelming interes, consequently as safo as British crowd is on foot, pressing onward - with Console, They bear and interest in most low for as relentless and as inevitable caece from 3 to 4 per cent, and give the holders the chance of acquiring a fortono us the waters of the no by paritdical Diavines with Prizes from £24,000 down 10 £20.
A shoesker whose wages were only
25 per week has drawn
the First Prize of £24,000
Tue crowd is neither turbulent nor rude. It is unceasing, irresistible, bub not illman- nored. Ie uute do not stare unduly at bhe. "Foreign devils. If you go into a align they will gather thickly outside to
watch what you may plonse to choose, But
of the Ottoman Government Railroad share the joy of bargarning and curiously
Bonds, which he bought only two books
EVER ISSUED UNDER PURELY NATIVE DIRECTION,
36
The Chinese Stat
• Tim krapano Chamana PolariOKO ARR OVIDERROTAN JOURMAN
hofore for £8 V LAST 3 they make way readily, and do bot, at least. They spped alike to the man with thou outwardly mock. Only you know with a
bands and he man with shillinge. shudder that, once you lost yourself among Ass RAST TEEMS rona 100% per month)
their myriada, lost you would heut Payment dosred
swallowed up sucked in.
Safely mounted in pizz chairs, Write a P-03 for désiriptive booklet to
At Qom the tin Gume sarve ANGLO-AMERICAN TINANCE- their generations-Wa
CORPORA
Postions ▼ ProKY: "ŽOKERING
Connants Veta Mier RatzAMER.
TELEGRAPATO NEWB. FROM A
We can do just the asuie in any t business, for there is always something being on that It might pay Chinese mer [ ohenta to konW,
We can supply you with advertisements of all the grout American merchants and manufae opera, so that you may asimilate their ideas and increase your bralness fo
To avoid delay, sand ten dollars (Max.)
for one month's trial onder. Bobsegment rato can be determined according to service It won't cort sny money to send for our fine Book which tells all about our armlet
MEMES FARRELL & LYSAUGHT, Hongkong, August 33, 1907.
TO LET
1369
"VODOWN · No. 5, DODDELL
STREET. Apply to
THE BONGKONG LAND INVEST- ---{MENT & AGENCY Co. Lo,
Hongkong, November 1, 1908.
TO LET
and how mach it coste Send for it to TTATHERLEIGH,' CONDUIT ROAD,
day.
Comentar refereÚCHS.
INTERNATIONAL PRESS CLIPPING
BURKAU.
DEADBOLT STREET, CHICAGO, I
U.S.A Hongkong, September 24, 1907. 1387
FOR SALE.
REPRINTS FROM THE "CHINA MAIL
Is Christianity Worth introdusing
1ato Chips
Beform in China
Price.
Preathing the Gospel in Japan and
Tibet, by Prof. E. 11. Farkor...50 *The Hongkong Docke
History of the Chummber, by Prot,
EH. Parker: ........
"Sir Robert Hart's Memorandum,
The Back Doo Reminiscences of Interpor
Orickat
The Rovenus of Obins, a Washing Books in English and
Chinese
“a Butory of Union Church'......
Commercial Law Affecting
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sy
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WASELL
ECOKS.
OFFICES L YORK BUILDING.
GODOWNS la Praza East, Blue Build- Inga, and No. 161⁄2, Dry Yeux Road" next.
the Hongkong Hotel,
to
FLATS in Moreton Taukaon.
No. 10, Dra Vorur Road CzarRAL, IN Floor
A House in RIPON. TERRAUE
A Home in WONG Nơi Cuma Rara
Apply to
THE HONGKUNG LAND-INVEST- MENT & AGENOT.00.-keta - Jongkong, November 1, 1908. 24.
TO LET.
FROM 187 DECEMBER, 1905 »FUNG+ SHUI, PLANTATION ROAD, the PRAE This House, which is admirably
•niftiated and within onay “distance of the Tena, in folly Furnished, and contains Draving and Diriaz Rooms, Thien largë- and, One small Bedrooms, Dresing kad Bath Rooms, Pantry, Kirozon sad Laundry, Socracta Quarters, Poulter House, larga Vegetable Garden (pisnted with Euglins naedy), Flower Garden and Lawnee
For further particulate, apply po
JOHNSON, BROKES & MASTER Bohoitors?
8. Des Voeux Bond Central Hongkong. November 6, 1908 –– Ko
FOB 2, 3 ok 4 MONTHS.
NE CHRONOMEGAPRON W
GAUMONT with speaking profes town series of Phonoscendoares es Hire for or month at Hoans for working and exhibiting In Chľas of very advantageoun corufitiata
Becurity of To 16,000 in rogu
RAYERCO
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