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FOR EUROPE & AMERICA, INDIA, AUSTRatia, do, and for

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HONGKONG WEEKLY

PRESS,

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NOTICE.

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TAVE HEREBY bag to Notify our Cus tomers that WE CANNOT ACCEIT MORE THAN TWO DOLLARS in Sal- sidiary Coina lo payment of aur socounts, AND BEEN K. OUR SHROFFS HAVE STRUCTED TO ADHERE STRICTI TO THIS RULE.

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NOTICE.

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Hongkong, 7th June, 1906.

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