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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1883.

THE operations on the steamer Carisbrooke are progressing very satisfactorily." She was raised another five feet to-day, and pulled close inshore. At low water her decks are how dry. Ir is stated that no lawyers existed in Japan fifteen years ago, but that there are now 997 of the fraternity in full practice in the empire. The victims assert that if there were three more there would be exactly 1000 too many.

minutes ere the event had actually taken someone else, hiding round a corner; THE Catherine II came out of the Cosmopolitan place. Human cunning and cleverness promptly "let off" three more to keep the Dock to-day. The Roleri Porter will undock have scarcely risen to this pitch of perfec-pair company, and "assist!! the artist who Kowloon to-day and the gran will dock

there tion, and therein aquatic chroniclers come was patiently watching at Mortlake. supremely to the fore, and stand pre-Despite all these playful little manoeuvres, That which cannot be done however, as we have said, the news, tran- on Epsom Downs or Doncaster Townsmitted proved correct, and it certainly Moor, viz; the virtual anticipation of "came through" promptly enough, in all "affairs, is achieved at Mortlake in conscience. But there will be a mistake smart, and brilliant fashion. ere long. Such conflicting "talent, is Those who undertake the duties of sure to lead to a catastrophe, and then the informing the world as to the fortunes of "sold" British public will probably won- rival University crews in their yearly races

der how mishap was averted so long, and think nothing of putting persons at. Bir-vituperate the ingenuity which finally came mingham, Liverpool, Newcastle-on-Tyne, † to grief. and hundreds of other towns, in possession of the anxiously-looked for intelligence some minutes ere the excited throngs at WATER S. the winning-post itself have the slightest

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. WE note that an international exhibition of city improvements is to be held in Vienna in 1884. THE new Alhambra Theatre in London, which is to be completed before Christmas next, will cost £17,000.

LONDON, May 2nd. THE AFFIRMATION BILL. Owing to the slow progress made with the By means of cunningly-laid wires, pyro-affirmation Bill Mr. Gladstone moved that it technic signals, river cables, and the like, take precedence and the motion was adopted" the telegraphic watchers at the end of the course are kept informed as to the precise position of the crews at various points of the river, and so soon as one is reported beaten, away gothe tidings that light or dark blue has won, and the tolling oarsmen are allowed to finish at their leisure. On the last occasion we have no hesitation in declaring that messages proclaiming the, victory of Oxford were received in Fleet street, London, quite It is requested that all communications rela-six minutes ere the panting oarsmen ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be ad. dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" pulled up at the Ship, Mortlake, and other more distant places doubtless received the news in similarly expeditious" style. This, it must be admitted, was "enter" prising in fact, no one can possibly en-

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ACCORDING to the Spirit of the Timis the actual net winnings of Goldsmith Maid, the celebrated American trotter, totalled $246,750.

A Vany careful distinction is made in all the royal palaces in England between crown prop erty (which goes from one sovereign to another) and private property. At present, almost every. thing at Balmoral and at Osborne belongs to the Queen herself; but except a few pictures and statues, she has nothing of her own at Windsor or at Buckingham Palace.

'We would call the attention of our renders to the change made in the advertisement of the Mastodon Minstrele" on our front page. Through the non-arrival of the steamer Nelson the management will be unable to give the per- formance advertised to take place to-morrow evening, and have fixed on Tuesday evo ing next, the 8th instant, as their opening night. The opening performance of this gigante troupe will be given under the patronage and in the presence of His Excellency S George Bowen. We hope to see a large muster on the occasion and, judging from the notices we have seen of this talented company, are con- placed before the public. - fident, that a high, class performance will be

We read that in view of the approaching corona- tion of the Czar, the court jewelers of St. Peters burg are now busy cleaning and repairing the insignia of the crown, the value of which is estimated at six and a half million dollars. The crown itself valued at $600,000, is adorned with magnificent diamonds, fifty-four enormous pearls HENRY STRATTON, Captain of the British steamer | without a flaw, and a ruby of extraordinary size; Phra Chow Klso, and William Somerville, chief | it is of exquisite workmanship. It was made by engineer of the same ship were up before Captain Paule, the Genevese jeweller, and was first used. JUPITER never fails to excite profound interest, Thomsett this morning on a charge of assaulting at the coronation of Catherine the Great. The whether we follow his course with the naked eye Harry, a fireman, on the high seas. Mr. Watton sceptre, which was made for the coronation of or through the telescope. The telescopic view appeared for the defendants. After bearing the Paul 1, is tipped with the famous Orloff diamond, just now, says The Scientific American, is full which, like the Koh-i-noor, came from the of excitement. The Prince of Planets has ract evidence Captain Thomsett dismissed the case.

treasury of the Grand Mogul

with a loss. The "great red spot,” 26,005 miles THE original Lingum god from the temple of

long, and 6,000 or 8,000 miles broad, has almost Delhi is advertised for sale, It is estimated that Swinburne, who is a famous swimmer and de-chon that has been eagerly and assidiously OSCAR WILDE tells an interesting story of entirely vanished. The extraordinary phenom- 5,000,000,000 Hindoo women have worshiped at the shrine of this god, which consists of a very lights in the water as Byron did. One morning watched since its appearance in 1878, has near- he went bathing at the Isle of Man, "where he ly disappeared, and zealous observers are little fine pear-shaped cat's eye upon a topaz and sur-was staying at the time, and swam directly to the wise for the study bestowed upon it. Va mounded by nine other large precious stones, set the cast, the glorious sun in his face. After rious opinions prevail concerning its origin and in. 22-carat gold. There are, no doubt, pleaty swimming an hour he suddenly came to his constitution. Soms astronomers' think it was of women of all civilised nationalities who are

senses and found himself very tired and nearly an enormous rift in the planet's cloud atmos ready to worship this particular god,

out of sight of the island. He turned about and pher, revealing the nucleus beneath. Others

States as well as in England. A few weeks ago hauled aboard, breathing hard. He jumped on now melting down and disappearing. Others Ir seems that there are bad boys in the United was almost in despair of reaching land, when think it was a slag or crust formed on the semi-

a fishing-smack was rounded to and he was fluid surface of the planet, revolving with it, 'and . a number of lads were arrested at Stockton (Ore the prow, awung his arms to keep the blood in think it was a kind of cloud of smoke coming gon) while engaged in playing poker and shak circulation, and broke into a declamatory recita- from a long continued volcanic eruption on the It has been stated, that the proposed additioning dice in the steeple of the Congregational tion of the " Ajax" of Sophocles in the original planet underneath, Doubtless new spots will to the detective force of London will take the Church there. They had fitted up the belfry Greek. As the fishers turned landward with succeed, and some time in the distant future as form of a political police, similar to those in with chairs and tables, and were thoroughly ens their naked passenger he hurled the tragedy at tronomers will decipher their meaning. But the Berlin and Paris.

joying themselves when they were discovered.

to have been "terribly shocked." The good people of the neighbourhood are said them with all his force of elocution and gesticu- time is not yet.

lation. They stared at him and were awe-struck. When they had gained the pier the master of

firemes-on-board the British-stoamor Kortigern, shore:** Here we come agin, and we've fetched

were up before Mr. Wodehouse this morning a jibberia' idjit for your'!" ..... ...

"on a charge of disobedience of orders," Joseph WRITING under the heading "Judge or Jury 7" Brown, master of the Vortigern, stated that last the Sydney Bulletin makes the following com- Monday at 6 o'clock in the moming the ments :-The chapter in Mr. Justice Stephen's defendants refused to do their work a last work which deals with the system of trial firemen on board their ship, and have since by jury is interesting, for the reason that the done no work. John Fraser, the chief engineer, sight deeper than can be had by the majority of ordered the defendants to their work They author's position gives him an opportunity of in-stated that on the 30th April last he men outside or inside the legal profession. The were stupid with drink and took no notice of his result of the great English publicist's study on order. Later on in the day he again ordered this question is, that with some hesitation he them to their duty; they refused to work and pronounces for the retention of this system. have done nothing since. He said that Millan Trial by jury has been for centuries in popular is a very troublesome person and gets drunk in.

guards of personal individual liberty and right. always complaining of being il- Millan in Justice Stephen weighs the matter well, and his defence stated he never refused to do states pro and contra the arguments that may his work, but that he was unwell, and was be employed. "But he ends by giving the weight, unable to do it. The chief engineer was recalled of his undoubted authority in favour of trial by and aid that he found the second defendant ly- jury; In brief, because thereby a certain popu-ing in bed when he asked him to go to his work. larity la conferred upon the legal procedure. He said he was in pain and gave no other With all respect for Mr. Justice Stephen's au- answer: Last Tuesday he was on shore walking

As will be seen from the advertisement of the P. M. S. S. Co., on our front page, the Com-

Honolulu this trip.

be accompanied by the name and address of the tertain a shadow of doubt upon the subject.pany's steamer City of Piking will not call at We have seen a goodly number of mysterious the boat recovered voice,, shouting to those on JAMES SMITH 'and John Millan, of Scotland,

Whilst columns of the Tele-

graph will always be soen for the fair discussion by correspondents of all questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that the Editor does not in any way hold himself res- ponsible for opinions thus expressed.

'TO ADVERTISERS. · · Advertisers are requested to forward all notices -intended for insertion in that day's issue not later than THREE O'CLOCK: so as not to retard the early publication of the paper.

TO SUBSCRIBERS. ·

But one may reasonably inquire where this sort of thing is going to end. If the verdict DEATHS by violence are said to average over was anticipated by six minutes this year, 40,000 a year in Russia, there being an average will aught less than eight minutes suffice of to murders a day. About 1,250 persons are next time, and if that "comes off" suc-frozen to death every year. It will be observed cessfully, by a bold flight may not a quarter that mankind in Russia keeps a little ahead of of an hour's suspense be avoided? Once the climate, bad as it is. work the quarter-hour properly, and the DURING the last two years fashion in Madrid transition to twenty minutes, by parity of has rigorously demanded that gentlemen should reasoning, must be comparatively easy, not wear gloves to bails and theatres. This and thus but a trivial further effort would year, by way of change, the shapely arms and actually place us in possession of the name hands of the señoras and señoritas are required of the winning crew ere they had received to be bared upon all public occasions.

advertisements in the agony columns of the London papers, but the following certainly bears away the palm-

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11. After carefully perusing this announcement we deal of whisky or some other vile concoction of have come to the conclusion that there is a good kindred nature in it. What respectable young lover who had any hope of retaining the affec tions of his "girlie" would dare to mention such delicatesubject as "qrgy admiyvg," or even to breathe a sound of "Hralt-gil, yt pyttigcydn

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Arrangements have been made to publish The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 P.B. Sub scribers in the central districts who do not receive their copies before Five O'Clock will oblige by the word "Go" from the starter! Some A COMMITTEE of influental men has been birz?" We trust that the lass will send him estimation, as at least one of the greatest ́safe every port they enter, and when at sea is at once communicating with the Manager.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1883.

UNDER the heading "Risky Enterprise"

believe that science can accomplish every- thing. When it achieves this feat it will have performed à marvel Indeed.

We think we can see the inevitable result of this expenditure of ingenuity. There are two news-supplying associations war- ring against each other, and they will come

formed in England to collect subscriptions for a memorial of Richard Trevithick, the Inventor of high pressure ateam engines, and probably the locomotive itself, who died penniless and alone at Dartford, Kent, in 1833, THE report is authoritatively made that no less than £5,000,000 have been invested by English

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YUN APUN, a hawker, was up before Mr. Wede house this moming on a charge of stealing one gold hair-pin, valued at $3.50, on the 3rd instant.

the London Sportsman of March 17th says: to irretrievable grief one of these fine days, capitalists in alleged gold mines in India. After | Leong Asze, wife of Kwok Apo, residing in thority, we prefer to defend the system on the about the dry dock. He has done no work dajú g -Astonishment has long ceased to be We mean no disrespect, but too much nearly three years of working the total yield of Gutzlaff Street, stated that yesterday at..3-30 ground that it furnishes a check upon the igno- the week. Smith, the first defendant, admitted

expressed in regard to the marvellous celerity with which results of important sporting events are now telegraphed throughout the length and breadth of the

those mines does not reach £500. But that does not prove that they have not paid well-the get ters up of the mining companies.

country, and, indeed, to such distant lands and successful effort to retrieve its position being 43, and the mean 18, in westerly gales arrested the prisoner. Lam Chin, P. C. 275, men, but by downright bad men, and that judge- Captain Brown stated that the first defendant

as Australia, China, India, the Cape, and America. Within a very few minutes of the decision of a great contest such as the Derby, the City and Suburban, or St. Leger, the names of the winner and the placed horses are transmitted literally all over the world. Special wires are laid to racecourses, skilled telegraphists are en- goged to conduct operations, submarine

cleverness is being exerted, and there will be a collapse ere long if "enterprise" is pushed much further. Let but an ap- parently beaten crew make a desperate. Ir is stated that in the North Atlantic waves have been observed of 24 and 30 feet high, the highest In the Pacific, 32 feet is recorded; South Atlantic, 22; Cape Hori, 32; Mediterranean, 141; German Ocean, 131, and the French sailors mention 36 feet in the Bay of Biscay. THE Speaker of the British House of Commons begins bis Parliamentary dinners with the Cabi net always, and gradually gets through the whole House. These banquets must cost him at least $5,000. His salary is $25,000, with a

The Lord Chancellor, though Speaker of the Lords, does not officially feed them.

in the last mile of the course, and it will be found that the entire country, to say nothing of foreign parts, has been hoaxed" to some tune. The usual: outery will ensue, and it will not avail the gifted parties to explain that they had no accident for several years, and thus felt safe.

But four or five years ago reporters at Mortlake waited quictly until the crews

p.m. she was walking along. Queen's Road on her way from the Market. She felt some one touch her from behind and put her hand

round and saw the defendant running away. HP when she missed her hair-pin. She turned She called out" stop thief when a constable stated that yesterday about half past three he was having a ride in a ricksha saw the woman in court chasing the defen- dant so he jumped out of the two-wheeler, ran after the thief, and arrested him. The com- plainant charged the prisoner with snatching her hair pin. The defendant denied it and said he had nothing on him. He is not known in gaol Defendant said he was going to the market when

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rance, the autocratic tendencies, or the bias of having refused to do any work and said he did judges. Let us not be understood as petulantly so because he had no fit place to live in The

colonies, with, so free and democratic a consti- to live in, Hoapplied for his discharge at Manila: eviling a great office. The danger of these forecastle of the vessel is always wet and is not fit

may come to be occupied by not merely second-rate stage the case was referred to Captain Thomsett. tution as they have, is that the judicial bench | andalso at Yokohana which was refused. At this

ships may be regarded as the spolia opima of a bore a fairly good character, but the second defeated party. And with dunces or knaves defendant was a very indifferent fellow. The upon the Bench, we should soon find out what a “Scotch worthies" were sentenced to a couple barrier the jury is. We have had judges who of weeks confinement, with hard labour, and have brow-beaten juries and sought to intimidate ordered to hold themselves in readiness to

them into giving a verdict according to the join their vessel should the captain require

summing-up. What has been once may be them before their sentence expires again. What man would rather submit his case to a judge of strong bias and autocratic

cables are "képt open" for the nonce, and had passed the winning-post, and then splendid furnished abode adjoining the House. the constable came up and scited him. There, bearing than to a jury-eved to a jury of four?·

was nothing found on him. He was not the man. Mrs. Leong Aste was recalled and stated that defendant was the man who was close to her, and that when running away thrown it away. The hair-pia anatcher was he had the pin in his band and must have

provided with six months' free board and lodg- ing in the "Retreat."

WE have received from Mr. J. L. Hart-Milner, one of the professors at the Commercial School, Macao, the prospectus, with other particulars, of | an excellent treatise on "Practical and Induc tive Book-keeping," specially compiled for the use of schools and commercial institutions gene rally, and which is now in the press in Macao, As a rule we place very little faith in the methods of commercial book-keeping as taught in schools, the class books commonly in use

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KARPILLARS OF THE PORTE,

going a little too fax to allere Gjuha j'enjoys the full confidence Itang for, his majesty, as is, well aces "Implicit faith in no onaj, bus more trusted than (other Isco and Indirectly exercises itself felt in every de- the State, Despised us, he may

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of education, ibers is yet

aker of ministers, the appointments and pro hose favor is well to

thus the messages fly off with the speed of they sedately handed in their messages to

THE ruinous condition of Peterborough Cathe-

A letter from Constantinople says Through light to their destinations direct from the the telegraph clerks ensconced in the

dral has aroused public attention in England to all the many changes that have been made of source whence they originated. The special van provided for the emergency, A POPULAR Sydney medico the other day ad- gentleman in San Francisco who has, By and bye some one used a field glass, vanced the theory that man is of necessity anar-

the question of what becomes of the enormous late in the Imperial household there is and greas cotic consuming animal If he doesn't anoke

endowment of such structures. It is made ape would be considered qualified to hold the office in revenues which have grown up from the original official who has always managed to retain his favourite horse in, and "spotted" the winner some three he drinks"; If he neither smokės nor lakes,

post. It true that no ordinary Individual perchance, drawn kay a "Derby Sweep," can go to reat hundred yards off, thus distancing his rivals grog, he patronises ten or coffed-or eats oplum

parent that what was not divided among the question; but eunuchs are not scarce in Turkey, on the evening previous to the decl-in the race against time. Next season the or injects morphia "But," someone Interjected,

nobics at the time of Henry VIII, is diverted by and were his majesty so inclined ne great diifi- sion of the race with the proud and chagrined party placed an assistent with "there are pious people who do none of these

A writer is an English paper which circulates harem The care of the Sultan's ladles, the Cathedral Clergy into their own pocket fully would be experienced in providing a Successor to the present chief, guardian of the happy conviction that he can if he chooses signal rockets at Barnes-bridge and un, things and "Then" continued the doctor,

more widely among the masses than any other, be awakened shortly after six o'clock next | hesitatingly sent off the "dp" he received

"they send themselves to sleep by sermons.”.

Ighty as the charge might fairly be considered, deals with the matter thus —The revenues, for however, but a small portion of the dusies morning and learn the result of the con- by the discharge of the fireworks. Then HERE is a solemn fact. At a bush public-house

instance, derived from the property attached to

med by his highness. Beiram Agha, and test that is set for three o'clock in the

-is which gives, such significance to a fact - came the introduction of huge rockets was an old station-band engaged in knocking

Westminster Abbey reached forty or fifty, chau-

otherwise merit but, little attention, afternoon, whilst the New Yorker Is able carrying heavy charges of gun-cotton, down his twelvemonth's cheque. When he had

sand pounds per annum, a great part to awagger round, if the fancy take him, which exploded in the air with terrific been at this amusement for about a week,

which consisted in houses mostly, infat at ten o'clock in the morning of the event reports, and thus "conveyed the in- Tommy's master, the squatter, sent to the land.

by brothel-keepers. These respectable" ful day, and brag that he has obtained formation." At the same time the firer lord asking him to get his man sober as soon as

had to pay very high rents to their Information five hours and a quarter or of ordinary rockets, to his disgust, found possible and send him to work. Replied the

verend landlords for the privilege of worthy host to the messenger :-" Tell Mr. — being altogether useless for the purpose of a locality where they could carry thereabouts in advance of the slow going other people in the neighbourhood dis- that I'm doin' my best to sober Tommy quick-making students acquainted with the practical infamous calling uninterrupted and Brkish pubile. Of course these ap- charging similar articles, and thus had I've only allowed him 40 nobblers this morning!? principles in daily use in mercantile offices. of police or any other dutfiority parently impossible results are attributable his signals badly "mixed," and, i

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“Do you know of your own knowledge that the Mr. Hart-Milner's treatise, however, is a very disbursing sufficient from these to the difference in time between England short, rendered unintelligible. On the accused threatened to beat Henry E. Abbey the different class of work to the usual run oftheoreti- to pay the musical and minor and the eastern and western portions of last race-day positively desperate mea first time he caught him out?" "Ob course I cal compilations which make such a shallow a few necessary sitendants the United States, Really, however, the aures seem to have been resorted to know it ob my own knowledge. My wife's pretence of teaching book-keeping. The Macao amounting in all to lear than news is transmitted with a swiftness and Wires were laid from Hammersmith and brudder Jim was ober at the bar-room on Austin handles it with the practical skill of an exper- and six canons pocketed amo

professor is evidently a master of his subject, and annually, the chapter that, an exactitude which were not dreamed of Barnes; a river cable stretched from Mort- | avenue, and while he was dar be, heard Byford a very few years ago, and in respect of lake to a point above the Duke of Devon

ienced accountant. The book is divided into mainder. Not a farthing was disseminating such items as we have men shire's meadows; the representative of a

two parts, the first part containing a well written until very lately in keeping the introduction and 71 lessons, which clearly cathedral in proper repair. Whilst the tioned, it may actually be averred that celebrated pyrotechnist was on hand to

explain the fundamental principles of ordinary clerical harples were taking five or six discharge great maroons, from mortars; a

mercantile book-keeping" in all its branches, per fannum cach, the Church was Although we have said sufficient to in- rocket manipulator was stationed at

The various methods in use in different countries tumbling about the cam dicate our belief that little or nothing more Barnes-bridge, and two or three rival

are shown, and all other necessary Information want of proper repairs. Is possible, of achievement in the way of rocket merchants hung about the neigh PARNELL says the new Idah Land Act has bene commercial ventures is most intelligibly laid loosened they were at any

connected with accounts in every description of to pass through the naye what we may call result telegraphy" inbourhood ready to frustrate and deceive ated not the tenants, but the sharks the lawyers down. The second part of the work deals with But for all this the dea regard to horse racing, we must confess one another; and, indeed, all kinds of During the 14 months the Act has been work-special systems of book-keeping, such as those until compelled by t that once annually, all the efforts of such artifices were employed. The resulting," says he, the total reduction of rents best adapted for joint stock companies, bankers, lament to reporters, akilled transmitting and receive was that as the crews approached amounts to £70,000 but "to obtain this 670,00do, ing clerks, and cable operators are put Barnes huge streams of fire shot, into the tenants have had pay to the lawyers completely into the shade," to use a com- the air from mortars, and 5 the pros fully £100,000, in costs and the Goverment mon mode of expression. Much energy, fecilles exploded with deafening con- (200,20. So that to get this miserable reduc Ingenuity, andenterprise have been exerted cussions. Barely had these sounds died on an expenditure of £400,000 was focured in flashing idings from Epsom, Ascot, away ere representatives of the rival con At this rate of expenditure, and the rats at which Doncaster, and elsewhere vid the telegraph tingent discharged revolvers, with the fond judicial heats (about 20,000 cases

curacies the land courts are progressing with the ddi wires, but we know of no Instance in which hope of creating confusion. Some one taketwenty-fiveyears to fix therents ofth the result of a horse race has been, as it at Barnes "sent up" a couple of rockets ten lats, and cost the parties interested

scattered over the kingdom some to sigolfy the fact of Oxford winning, and was sterling

distance has been annihilated.

Smith tell Bob Ferguson dat his wife had it straight from Sam Macy dat de prisoner had promised to 'sault Harry Abbey de fust time he cotched him out. I knows hit ob my own know. edge because I heered dat from Sam Adams Bill Perkins, I disremember which, wid my own ears-Texas Sifting

shipping firms, insurance societies, solicitors, Incores agriculturalista brokers, schools, &c, &c. the deans and cand Space will.not permit us to further detail. Mr. | rot and ruin, and the money Miner's excellent treatise; suffice it to say, it is to keep it in repair was dey the most complete work of the kind we have ellars with the chỉ ever seen, and should not only on its merits be

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