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We guarantee our Wines and Spirits to he genuine only when bought "direct from us in the Colony or from our authorized Agents at the Coast Ports.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1903.

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MARRIAGE.

Now look out for LeMunyon's new store ady" It is a beauty.-Advi.

THE breech of a Krupp gun burst on the battle- |ship Chinyuan during gun practice on the 27th ult, and several men were injured, one of whun | died,

A FIRE broke out among some Bombay cotton in Mitsui Co.'s godowns at Kohe on the 29th ult. doing damage to the extent of about Yi0,000, evered in the Vakninina Insurance Co.

THE Japan Times has been inlarged by the addition of one column Leach page and two inches to each column, which is equivalent to an addition of it columns to the paper.

OVER thiny people were killed by a cloud Un and Jane, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sin-bursting at Spartenburg on June 7. The place. gapore, R. BEGINALDI AUGUSTUS, younger son of the late Rev. G. A. Oddie, of Aston, Herts.,

has a population of nearly sixty thousand on 1 Gertrude Constance, ellest daughter of R.

the line of the Southern Railway, U.S.A. G. YZELMAN, di Johore.

The Hongkong Gelegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1993.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE brother of the Sultan of Morotco has been poisoned.

M. W. H, Frizell has been elected chainman, and W. H. Shelford, deputy chairmian, of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce.

A SUNKEN reel with 5 feet of water on it at low tale has been discovered near the Kanabuse buoy, nurther entrance of Shimonoseki Strait. LeMunyon will have another grand opening Day and a Souvenir day as well; watch the date.

Advt.

Tue Tanjung Pinang Ice Company's factory at Penang is now completed and in working order. This makes the taitd ice installation there. The plant is capable of producing twenty tons of ice daily.

On the 9th il a collision occurred between the Penang owned steamers Swee Luk and

The Swee Lok | Chay Tai off Pulo Lankawi. sank, and some 19 out of her 45 passengers are reported to have been drowned. FREEMASONS will be interested to learn that a complete history of Freemasony in l'enang and the Straits Settlements is in course of preparation by somut gentlemen who are especi-

ally squatted to undertake the work, says the

Straits Echo,

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REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

On the last trip of the s.s. Mekong from Saigon to Bangkok, a serious accident happened to her was, at latest advices, in the hands of the Bangkok Dock Company and lier departure for Saigon has been delayed till the repairs are

effected.

Le Courier Saigonnois states that the Mes sageris Flaviales de Cochinchine have under construction in French duckyard four ships. Three of them will have a tonnage of 5,200 | and will cost 3,070,080 francs each; the fourth will be a ship of 6,303 tons, which will cost 3,719, $20 francs.

Don't forget the chits for they will not gu LeMunyan. Adol

THE Kassian Superintendent of Customs at Newchwang has prohibited foreigners who are int in possession of a health certificate signed by a Russian doctor from Lundng at New- chwang

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AN Imperial Decree, dated 6th insi,,' says Cheng Y-lu, Provincial judge-designate of Kwangtung, is commanded to proceed with all haste 10 fus post and is excused from coming up to Peking for imperial audience.

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A SERIOUS. epidemic of yellow fever sweeping over Yucatan. All the cities are afflicted and the daily deaths run up into the Landreds. The population in many cuties is panic stricken and business is at a standstill. Tuz Rev. Thomas Hendrick has been appoint ed Archbishop for Manila in succession to Archbishop Montgomery, who declined on the grounds that he had been with his diocese for so many years that he thought he would ne complish more by staying where he was.

A N., C. D. News correspondent hears that plans are now on foot for the erection of a hotel, on the North Saddle. He says that if one is built it is almost certain to be a success, for good bathing and a mild temperature are things which the busy Shanghai workers will find it impossible to resist.

FROM the Hongkong Studio we have received a most excellent photograph of the bridal party taken at Government House last Monday. The portraits are exceptionally cleats, and should

Copies can be obtained from the Studio at 41

prove one of the best mementos of the occasion.

and 43 Queen's Road Central.

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A STOCK company has been organized at Peking for the purpose of building a cigarette factory. Several wealthy Chinese are behind the move-

iment.

News has been received of a terrific earthquake in the vilayet of Van in Asia Minor. Two thousand people were killed, including the garrison.

EMPLOYERs and serRVANTS.

IMPORTANT JUDGMENT,

DANGERS TO NAVIGATION,

The following communicaton was received through the curtesy of Mr. E. A. Hewelt, Superintendent of the P. & O. 5 N, Co. -

l'eninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.,- ss. Ceylon, Hongkong, 17th June, 1903.

An interesting case has been ngaging the attention of Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Police Court, for some time past. Mr. R. G. Heckford, manager of Messrs. Wm. Powell, Ld, Queen's Road, summoned Ng Lai, the firm's No. 1

ailor, on the following charges:—1) Disobey- To the Superintendent, H. E. THEN Chun-hsien, Viceroy-designateing the dressinaker's instructions; (2) dis of the Two Kwang provinces, left Hankow for regarding the hours of the firm; (3) nói The South vià Chinaksang on Saturday afternoon, executing orders within a reasonable time The 6th us art.

when work was handed over to the defendant in perform ; (4) insolence to the dressmaker by not answering when spoken to; (5) attention to instructions: (6) falling back 277) that he did not answer after he was told that he had rint performed the work properly : (7) spoiling goods, especially light material, placed in his hands for making up; and (8) Sithy and dirty condition of the sewing machines.

Four i uns freakily pasin gå and tinted and in first class condaton to sent. Taquire at C. E LeMunyon, New Suure, 31, Des Voeux Road. P. O. Box 368.—Advt.

ACCORDING to a New York cable, da ed 7th inst., Pope Leo XIt is said to be suffering from acute intestinal inflammation, and it is the opinion of the physicians, that the trouble is cancer of the intestines. He is growing «eak- er, and it is thought that the end is near. THE Robinson Piano Company, Limited, kindly

inford us that they have received a com. munication from the Pollard English Coinedy o, with a splendid pertoire of the latest

successes, now in Manila, stating that they expect to be in Hongkong early in August. We referred, several days ago, ti the intended visit of this company.

THE Telegraph Man Supplement will be pub lished early to-anorrow morning and will contain a full account of the marriage of Miss Blake with Capt. Arbuthnot. Those who have been

unable to main copies of the thongkong Telegraph of 8th inst should bear this in mind, been carefully revised and extended. while others should note that the report has

This is the first case brought under Section 13 of the Employers' and Servants' Ordinance, No. 45 of 1909, and is of considerable import.

the defendant, who was represented by Mr. M auce to employers in the Colony. To the charges

W. Slade, barrister-at-law, pleaded not guilty, Mr. M. J. D. Stephens, solicitor, prosecuted on behalf of the complainant. On the th inst, evidence was given and after hearing a legal argument as to whether the case was governed by the Ordinance, Mr. Hazeland said he would adjourn the summons Jane die and give a written decision.

P. & O. Co. Dear Sir, I have to report that, at 87 pani, on the 9th inst. in Lat. 14 20 N. Long, 112 45" E. we passed a submerged wreck, with one mast, and rigging attached—standing upright, about to feet above the water.

This may probably be the same wreck that Capt. Owen of the 9.5. Dragoman reported as having passed on the 30th March, ryo2. It is directly in the track of ships using the main route between Singapore and Hangkong. Had we passed it in the daytime I would have stepped the ship, lowered a boat, and disco- vered what sort of vessel it was.

I am, Dear Sir,

Yours faithfully.

(Sd) C. W. KENNETT,

Comună, der.

HALS, "GLORY"

EXPECTED TO BE DOCKED IN HONGKONG,

For some time past there has been much speculation in haval circles as to the probability of the big hattleship H.M.S. Glory being dock. The decision was given this morning. Hised in Hongkong). The mere fact of the flig

ship of Vice Admiral ir Cyprian Bridge going Worship said: The defendant Ng Rai was summoned before me by R. G. Heckford, nin dry dock hereļis nothing unusual in itself, manager of Messrs. Willam Powell, Limited, since the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. on eight charges under Section 12 of the has had many a job done for the Admiraly. It

is the extent of the work to be carried out o Employs and Servants Ordinance, 1902. There was a written contract between the the Glory that has been subject of dnubi parties which is as follows.—" This agreement whether it should be undertaken in Hongkong It is reported that Yunnan merchants in Shang-witnesseth that 1, Ng Kai, otherwise,

or at home. Our inquiries have failed to elicit bai and in the other pons have received tele. do hereby agree with Messrs. William Powell, any information as to the exact nature or ex- grams from their people in Yunnan to delay Limited, retail merchants at Flongkong, as funt of the refitting required by the battleship. sending goods to the province, owing to the follows-For the sum of twemy-five dollars It is, nevertheless, certain that work of more insurection of Langanfu having spread towards per month for the first six months, twenty-eight than an didinary nature or extents required Mingize. The PT. Times says the role- dollars per month for the following six months, on her, and it has been almost practically graphic department of the Waiwapu has been thirty-two dollars per mun h for the next twelve settled that it will be entrusted into the warned to be very careful, as matters in Yun- months, and thirty-six dollars per month for hands of the Dock officials in the Kow- nan and Kwangsi are growing more and more

the next twelve months, and such amounts Soon establishment. We understand that serious.

as William Powell, Limited, shall pay for the it was suggested that the work could only making up of garments by myself and the work-

be done in a shipyard at home, and men 1 engage, I agree to execute in first should the local Company secure the contract class style and workmanship all making up for the work which, in the opinion of some, on orders taken by the said fem or its repre- account of its nature and magnitude, can only sentatives, and keep the times of contracts be accomplished at home, it speaks much fer made by them, and hold myself responsible for the character and resourcefulness of the Hong- the good condition of machines and sundries kong Dack Co. The Glory is described as a used by myself and my workmen. I also hold first-class armoured battleship of 12,950 ton!, myself responsible for the honesty of my and is a new craft having been launched in employees, and will make good any losses that 1900. She left Manukong for Japan on the may occur through their dishonesty, bad work- | 3rd April and is now in Northern waters. manship, or other causes.. On these conditions only Messrs. William Pawell, Limited, agree to engagement the progressive salary herebefore

By kind permission of Major Radcliff and Officers the Band of the 33rd Burma Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow (Saturday) from 3 to 9.30 p.m.

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PROGRAMM S Mark Mamre Dan de Sugar frem de Clune "...Win

kontsire... Hungarian ".

Kiter Biela selectiam," The Shop Türk "...

Cyll Song........... "Cradle Soup) an Selection.” 3. Pravessal Kensingian Valle Dudy"....... Part... Cami"

God Save the King.

Lange Gerinat

Bacalossi

TRUTH without fear" is the keynote of the Straits Echo which was launched by some old Telegraph hands at Penang on Whit Monday, Mr. Chesney Duncan, who piloted this journal

Tit. Coblenews prints a cable of the 6th inst. from New York stating that the Marquis of Salisbury is seriously ill from a sickness resem bling Bright's disease. The aged Marquis has been failing for some time past. His troublesome years ago, is editor. Mr. T. C. Swaby,entioned, and I do hereby further agree that

has been attributed to advancing age. Of late

more acute symptoms have manifested them selves and the attending physicians have grave fears for the distinguished patient's recovery.

THE Hongkong correspondent of the N. C. D. News fancies that, in his scheme for a bridge to Kowloon, the Harbour Master counts on the abolition of the ferry boats, and therein makes a mistake, for the average Chinese conlie would rather pay a cent and get carried across than pay a cent and get over a bridge of

one of our most energetic reporters, recently

migratert south, is manager, while a journalist from the North does the "subbing. It will endeavour to create, faster and expand a healthy, free, and independent public upinion Among other matters in the first number,' in- cluding a host of wires, is an article on "Educational Affairs in the Straits" and "Pe. aang and her coaling facilities." There is also a "beauty competition, with coupon voting for the "handsomest man in Penang and the F.M.S." a prize of $to, half of which must be

A marriage has been arranged between Mr. a mile in length on shanks' pony. However, presented to some deserving local charity,

Reginald George Watson, Acling Secretary to the Government of Perak, and Miss Sydney Presgrave, only daughter of Mrs Presgrave, formerly of Singapore. The marriage, however, will not take place for about two years owing to the youth of the fiancée.

there is room for a bridge, too, he adds, and it may one day be erected.

CABLE advices from London to New York, dated tune 6th, which have been printed in the Cablencis bring word that Oxford University is bankrupt. The ancient institution has suffer. JUTE cultivation has been taken in hand to ed much in late years by the failure ofits former sunie purpose in Tanquin by M. Duchemin. sources of revenue. The endowments left by The Governor-General has just visited his wealthy deceased sons has fallen off appreciably plantations. H.E. is reported to be highly and the prestige of the institution has waned pleased with what he saw, especially with thegreatly in the face of the practical trend of the signs that the cultivation of the fibre there is

age and the decline of pure scholastici.m. likely to spread very considerably.

THE annual Army report shows that The normal establishment in January was 436,450 men and the actual strength 747-719. The

regulars showed an excess of 40,275. Of the deficiency, 47,135 were in the army reserve: 23,169 in the militia: 50,000 in the unformed militia reserve; and 95,460 in the volunteers. It is noteworthy that a recent report shows the deficiency in the reserves on the 1st May at only 16,000,

THERE has just been launched on the river Wear an extraordinary steamer built for the trade between the Baltic and Rotterdam. She has fourteen masts in two lines on each side of the hatches, and a total of 24 derricks, which can all be worked at once. The holds go straight down without any ween decks, and each derrick has to work half a hold. In this way it is estimated she will be able to unload her 10,300 tons cargo in 390 hours. She draws 22 ft. 8 in. landed, steams at 10 knots, and can put on a fair amount of sail,

THE proposed railway from Tonquia into Yunnan has advanced another stage towards THE Hankow Cask Company, Limited, has just realization. The route traced at first proved been registered under the Hongkong Ordinance; to be impracticable and a new one has just and is expected to be in full working order becu marked out which promises easier gradi-by Dec.mber. The initial capital, in shares of ents and is much shorter. M. Beau, the Governor-ls 100, has been taken up privately, but if the General, has approved of the new plan, and it company is a success the public will be invited has been sent on to Paris to be laid before the

to take up shares. The M. C.D. News says it French Government. Now that the survey will be the object of the company to supply work is over, a great many Chinese coolies reliable casks, a much-needed requisite at engaged in it are out of employment. is Hankow, and the wood, imported from Europe, feared that want of work will drive them to is to be made into casks under the immediate crime.

superintendence of a gentleman who for some

successful.

SOME surprise and discontent have aroused, says the Pinang Gatette, among the police there by the promulgation of an order from Singapure that all members of the Straits Police below the rank of Assistani Superinten

for

whoever

secures HOST)

I will not leave the employ of the said William

Powell, Limited, within three years of the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred

the firm's manager. Dated this 22nd day of and two, without the written consent of

October, 1902, (Here follow signatures į”' Mr. Slade, on behalf of the defendant, submitted that there was no "contract of service" as defined by the Ordinance, nor was be a servant" within the meaning of the said

The voles.

Echo has secured ordinary and special cable services and a staff of correspondents which will ensure a regular supply of news front all parts of the world. We wish our new contemporary every success.

According to the Fanchow Echo there was a gathering of foc,00 › Chinese on the 27th ult, to witness the self-hanging of a fairly well-to- do widow who had lost her son's two wives and faplly her son. With a firm step she ascended the platform she had had erected with the necessary beam. She briefly ad-

dressed the multitude around her, and after drinking a cup of wine commenced to adjust the rope. The long protecting silver pins in her hair interfered with the first attempt to fit it round her neck, and something going wrong with the secund attempt the magistrates who were present ordered the soldiers to stay proce edings. The woman was very angry and threw the wine cups and fans, handy on a small table by her, at the soldiery. An attempt was made by a native woman who had ascended the platform 10 induce the would-be suicide to descend, but it was no use, and it was only through the kiad offices of the lady sisters of the Foochow Native Hospital, previously known to her, that she could be got down. The magistrates ordered her into a chair and she was sent home.

THE Straits Times thus remarks on Mr. Hut- tenbach's view on the currency question, as set forth in extenso in these columns lasi week-They may not be those of the majority of the community, but they are worthy of the consideration of everybody inter ested in the all-important matter of the Straits The point touched upon that most dollar. vitally concerns the man in the street is the fact that our dollar to-day is worth a halfpenny more than a Hongkong dollar, and its valus is fiable to increase rather than depreciate. It is doubtless wise on the part of the Colonial Treasurer to suppress-as he has been doing of late-the note issue of the Colony. Pending

MESSRS Skinner and Noyes, the Transvaal te has been manager of one of the largest Commission to inquire into the question of cask factories in France. Chinese labour, have arrived in Singapore and will go up to the Native States in the course of a week. Their tour so far has been very It will be the shaft and stope mining at Raub that will most nearly resemble the mining conditions in South Africa, says the Singapore Free Press, but from the alluvial tin dent will henceforth travel over sea by seconds rise in the value of the dollar, such a policy mines they will be able to determine the power class passage in the Japanese mail steamers, i, from his point of view, commendable. The of the Chinese miner to move so much cubic instead of by second class P. and O., as was same may be said of the banks, and their note TELEGRAMG: "CARMICHAEL," Hangkang bolk of earth per day-a valdable factor informerly the case when going home on leave issues. The latter, however, are private corpo. considering the relative values and cost of and returning, etc. Of course, this means a rations working for their own gain. The Ġo. verament is theoretically, if not in fact, the servant of the people.. Its action in hamper ing, the convenience of the commercial com- munity by withdrawing its note issue at this juncture' is open to criticism.

A. B. C. Códę, 4th Edition.

A. 1-Code.

Lieber's Standard Code.

TELEFONE, 232.

Hongkong, 20th March, 1903.

[355e,

MIGUEL

HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

Kaffir and Chinese labour.

We shall have a Souvenir Day soon, but you will have to pay us a personal visit as no chits will go. Le Munyon.-Advt.

THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL.

considerable saving, Goancially, to the Govern ment, but the police complain that the acme of comfort cannot be obtained in the second saloons of the Japanese boats, not by a long

way.

THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Reet

made in the tropica-SAN MIGUEL

E Bear to drink in the tropics is made in the tropics SAN MIGUEL.

Ordinance. Mr. Slade also submitted a second

point, that, inasmuch as the provisions of

ALLEGED MURDER AT WINCHAI.

At the Police Court this morning Mr. Hazeland had before hún on the capital charge the keeper of an opium divan at Wing Fung Street, Wanchai, and his two sons who are alleged to have caused the death of a native in the Hongkong Company of the Submarine Miners. It seems that the deceased wd the prisoners four hundred cash, and as he would not pay, it is alleged he was assaulted and kicked. He was removed in the Government Civil Hospital and the prisoners were arrested and charged with às ault, meanwhile the miner died from a uptured spleen, and this ma ring the charge was amended to one of murder. The case was

adjourned till the 23rd inst

THE PLAGUE.

Section 7 have got leen complied with, the at of opinion that there was no "contract of case does not come within the Ordinance. I

During the twenty-four hours ended at noon service" to work personally for the firm. The to-day it further cases of bubonic plague, ecfendant's position is that of a person who making 44 since January 1st, were se supplies labour, and there is no suggestion posted. For some reason or another the return gives the total number of cases notified to cate in the agreement that he should enter the firm

as 1,160, which must surely be a mistake. I our Amongst other classes defined in the Ordi of the cases, Nos. 1,128, 1,129, 1,131 and 1,132, nance which cannot possibly apply to the pre-reported from Station Street, Mongkok, a boat sent case there is also the following definition: off Hunghom, the hills de nt To Kwa Won, and between Tai Kok Tsui and Fuk Tsun "Servant shall include any person being a Heung, appear to be wrongly numbered as on mechanic, artificer, or other handicraftsman, Wednesday last these numbers refenti lo engine-driver, or fireman." The point was

European cases, viz, of no fixed abode, raised as to whether the defendant could be Station, and 36, Des Voeux Road West. It is from the Dustalangge, the Central ice regarded as an "artificer." In Ingram v. Barnes evident, therefore, that the cases reported to 7 E. and B., p. 15) it is laid down that the date should be 164, not 1,160 It is satisfactory term "artificer" applies only to those who are. to note that the plague roll is growing smaller

actually and personally engaged or employed to do mechanical worker the like, and not to those taking contracts for labour to be done by others. He must contract for his own labour exclusively as distinguished from one who can fracts to supply the result of the labour of others or of himself and others. Assuming for the purpose of argument that the position of "tailor," 1

the defendant is that of 3 am of opinion that he could not be in- cluded in the general words "of other handicraftsman," as these words are in my opinion ejusdem generis to the special words

mechanic" and "artificer." Where it appears that the class which it is sought to bring within an Act was known to the Legislature at the time the Act was passed, and that class is omitted, it must be supposed to have been omitted intentionally. It is impossible to sup- pose that so numerous and extensive a class as "tailors" would be referred to under general words if it was meant to be included. (See judgment of Blackburn, J., in Quen v. Cleworth, 4 B. and S. 934) It is therefore unnecessary for me to give a decision on the second preliminary point raised. My finding is therefore for the defendant, and I order the

summons to be dismissed.

AMONG several exceedingly interesting experi ments carried out during the year at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradenya, Ceylon, one was as to the dispersal of seeds of flowering plants. For this purpose an island was formed in a lake entirely from the mud which had been for many years under water. A few plants have grown on the island, and it is intended to examine the flora of the place each year and record the occurrence of new plants with re marks as to the method of dispersal of their seed, This may be described as "vegetable colonization."

Beck drink in the tropics chute I made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL,

and free from European cases. The eleven

cases reported to-day were Chinese, all of cases the bodies were reported as having been which have terminated fatally. In seven of the

found. Another discrepancy is noticeable in our official plague returns. As given in the daily statistics the number of cases to the 6th June had totalled 1050, whereas the weekly. return gives the number for the period ending the same day as 1,051.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE. American (Nippon Maṛujia-morrow. - German (Preussen) 14th inst. French (Ernest Simons) 14th inst. Indian (Suisang} 16th inst. Canadian (Empress of India) 16th inst. American (Sibèria) 20th inst. Australian (Taiyuan) 220d inst. American (Coptic) ist prox. Canadian (Tarlar) 1st prox.

The A. A. Co.'s s.s. Kish will leave Mila 17th inst, and is expected here on or bric 20th inst.

The C. P. R. Co.'s s.s. Turlar lest Vancouver am., 9th inst., for Hongkong wis the nevnt Ports of Call.

The T. K. K. s.s. Restila Maru left Ma ila yesterday afternoon, and is expected here lo- murrow at about 2 p.m.

The N. Y. K. s.5. Sanuki Mara (Eutopcáu. Line) left Singapore for this port en 11th inv.," and is expected to arrive here on. 16th inst

The C. N. Co.'s:,5, Taiyuan from Australion Ports icft Port Darwin 11th inst. for this port via Manila, and is expected to arrive here 22nd inst.

The C. P. R. 5.s. Empress of India, arrived at Nagasaki 9 nm, tith inst, and left ani at 5 pm, same day for Shanghai where she is due at 24.m., 15th inst.

The P. M. S. S. Co.'s s.s. Siberia with mails, &, from San Francisco la the. 20th ul, Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama, and leaves for this purt via Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shinghai, to-morrow morning." THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropica-SAN MIGUELA

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