General Managers. Hongkong, 7th March, 1905.
LEVY HERMANOS,
“
FOR SALE.
MM
COLOMBO, ADEN, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS.
The 8.8. "DUMBEA,"
Captain Boyer, will be despatched for, MAK. SEILLES OF TUESDAY, the 16th May,
at 1 P.M.
$2.70 per Bag 250 lbs. net ex Factory. Hongkong & Shanghai Hanking Corporation......
DIALGNS AND WATCHMAKERS
MIAMOND MERCHANTS, JEWEL
| EASTMAN'S KODAKS and FILMS.
Sole Agents for "OMEGA" WATCHES.
Passage tickets and through Bills of Lading "OMEGA" is the best, "THREE YEARS”
-issued for above paris.
Cargo also booked for principal places in Europe.
Next sailings will be as follows →→
5.3. ERNEST SIMONS... 30th May. 5,8, POLYNESIEN .........13th June. S.S. CALEDONIEN........27th June,
G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent.
Hongkong, and May, 1905.
ORIENTAL
STC
CAM
17
4 guarantes given to every purchaser.
40, QUREN'S ROAD,.
Watsonte Nullifies,
TUBORG BEER.
Union Insurance "ariety of Canten. L.-mited-
Vangisze Insurance Association, Limited.
FIRE INSURANCES. China Fire Insurance Company, limited ....... Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited,
SHIPPING, TUG and Cargo BOATS. China and Manila Steamship Company, Limited...... FIRST Class PILSENER BEER Douglas Steamship Company, Limited
A guaranteed free from Salicylic Acid,
and any other Chemicals.
PRICE $10.50 per case of 48 botties (quans)' or 6 dos, pints,
Special Prices for Quantities. Sole Agents-
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong. 10th January, 1001.
Hongkong, Canton & Macan Steamboat Co., Ld.....|
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO
[30
-National Bank of China. I impedimine on my
MARINE INSU FANCYS Canton insurance Office, Limited.........
Mails. MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1905. For Sale
„GREEN: ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
LIMITED,
PORTLAND CEMENT.
$4.50 per Cask 375 lbs. net ex Factory.
STEAM FOR SAIGON,
SINGAPORE, BATAVIA,
SHARE QUOTATIONS.
Supplied by Mess. BENJAMIN, KELLY & POTTS. Corrected to noon; later alterations given ul der "Commercial Intelligence," page 5.
STOCKS.
PANKS
LAST DIVIDEND.
AMORIMATE „JETUNK AT
FAKKENT DUOTATION,
NO. OF SHARES.
VALUE. PAID UP
·POSITION AS PER LAST REPORT AT WORKING RESERVE
ACCOUNT.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
$6,000
fras $125
£1,000,000) $8,000,000
$250joro)
(Div. of £1.10), and bonus of £r@ ex«)
($599
$1,493,408
change 1/1-9/16-$23.46 for socond.
#%*
London 80
half-year 1904 manomen sumeme.
99,925 £7
£5
$700,000
$41.768
$2 (London 3/6) for 1903
$37 buyers-
|0,000
$750
ૐ
$1,400,000?
$150,494
$17 for 1993
5300 buyers
81,739)
$950,000
China Traders' Insurance Company, I'mited-
North China Insurance Company. Limited)
$83.33
$25
$151,992
Nil.
Sai for year ended 30,1.1904 ....
71%
537 buyers
$362,365
$171,445)
10,000
A15
Ti1 800,000
T❘s. 217,119
Interim al 7/6 1924...
8.1%
Tia 82 buyers
St.$50,000
£20,000
10,000 $250
$100
$172,749
$2,078,997
$35 for 1903
1695 sellers
$893 1
5846.773
$700,000
8,000 $100
10,000 $100 $10
8,000 $250 $50
30,000 525 $25 10,000 550
560
$37.794
$486,284
Stz and 53 special dividend for 1903
91 %
$160
$1,000.000
$125,675
$379,047
$6 dividend & $1 bonus for 1903 imion
81%
186 sellers-
$2,561 $1,200,505
$369,372
$34 for 1903
1+%
S3011 sellers
$5,000
$8,832
St for 1994mm
5.%
Sal buyers
550
5185,000
Nil
$2 for year ended 306.1904)
51%
$35 sales
· $85,439)
$250,000
fo,oco 515
$15
$600,000
$24,160
$1 for second half year you n
91 %
$:64 buyera
$158,444)
Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company. Limited......... (Preference) Do. "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited,.. 2,000,00 10,000 157 Star" Ferry. Company, Limited.......
10,000 200,0002 100,000)
£10. £10
£205,000)
Z100,000
£5.853
+15.50
Tic. fo
Tis. 25,000
£400,000
LI
£4,115).
Tis. 43.762 £38,852
10% for 1903 1/10 5/16m$5.378... (Tis. 24 fi at making Tls 4) for 1904 ... {Tis. 11 final making Ths. 3) for 19:4 m)
41%
$10
10,000 $10
55
$60,000 $15,093
$1,287
Interim of if (Coupon No. 5) for 1904 ... $1.86 & b. 40 cts for year ending 30.4.04
Sago &b, 10 cla:5
איז אאא
$125 buyers Tla: $5 buyers Tis. (o sellers 22/6 buyers $37% buyers S28 sales
$400,000
Straits Steamship Company. Limited ......
5,000
100
$100
$ 21,575
$21,731
$te for 1904 qaumurine
8 %
xe
$125 sales
$130,153,
Tls, 126,000
Taku Tug and Lighter Company, Limited
FEXINERIES China Sugar Refining Company, Limited....... Luzen Sugar Refining Company, Limited.........................................] Perak Sugar Cultivation Company, Limited ....
MINING.
INCANDESCENT
MANTLES.
CHIMNEYS,
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Ld.......,000.000 Oriental Consolidated Mining Company, Limited
Paub Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited
GLOBES.
Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Cndown, Co., Ld.
New Amay Dock Company, Limited........ Riley Hargreaves & Ch., Limited
Hongkong and Whampoa Uock Company, Ld. Howarth Fiskine, Limited
Do.
(Preference)...
S. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co., Limited....
[54
Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company Tanjong Pagar Deck Company, Limited Yangtze Wharf and Gdrown Company. Limited...... LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDING. Astor House Hotel Company, Limited (Shanghai)... Astor House Botel, Limited (Tientsin)
Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited ....
TO LET,
1527
TO LET..
11
No.
Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., I d. Hotel des Colonies Company, Limited (Shanghai).... Humphreys Estate & Finance Company, Limited Kowloon Land and Building Company, Limited....... Shanghai Land Investment Company, Limited Tientsin Hotel des Colonies, Limited........................................................ Tientsin Land Investment Company, Limited....................... Wei-bai-wei Land and Building Company, Limited... West Point Building Company, Limited....
COTTON MILLS.
(Founders'..
169
XDo.. flak& Holtz, Limited...
(New lasue).........ón
Hongkong & China Gas Company, Limited,.
Hongkong Electric Company, Limited ...............
Hongkong High-Level Tramways Company, Ld........ Hongkong Ice Company, Limited Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company, Ld. Hongkong Steam Waterboat Company, Limited..... Kair Brothers, Limited
* aug Lace, Crawford & Co., Limited (Shanghai) Maatschappij tot Mijn, Busch en Landbouwex- ploitatic in Langkat, Limited men, (66) Maynard and Company, Limited.....
COMPY
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,
STEAM FOR
STRAITS,CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND
LONDON.'
(Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL, AMERI- CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.) HE Steamship,
THE
"CHUBAN,"
Captain H. W. Kenrick, R.N.R., carrying. His Majesty's Mail, will be despatched from this for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 20th May, at Neon, taking Passengers, and Cargo for the above Parts in connection with the Company's S.S. Himalaya, 6,878 tons, from Colombo, Passengers' accommodation in which vessel is secured before departure from Houg- kong.
Silk and Valuabies, all Cargo for Fratr and Tes for Londos (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Colombo into the Mail steame: proceeding direct to Marseilles and London other Cargo for London, .&c, will be conveyed from Bombay by the R.M.S. Persia, due in London on the 2nd July,
Parcels will be received at this Office until 4 F.M. the day before sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages' are required:
For further Particulars, apply to
L. S. LEWIS,
Acting Superintendent.
Hongkong, 6th May, 1905.
NORTHERN PACIFIC LINE.
BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
BOSTON TOW-BOAT - COMPANY.
Connecting at Tacoma with NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
'COMPANY.
PROPOSED SAILINOS From Hongkong FOR VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACOMA,
VIA
MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
Steamer, Tous. Captain.
Sailing,
Hyades. 3.753 Geo. Wright... At. May 23 Pleiades... 3,753 E.G. Purington, n lune yo Shawmut 9,656 E. V. Roberts July 12. Trimoni...... 9,606 (T. W. Garlick.. Aug. 8
Steamer marked (*) have no second-class passenger accommodation.
+ Cargo only,
Cheap Fares, EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION, ATTENDANCE AND CUISINE, ELECTRIC
LIGHT, DOCTOR AND STEWARDESS. The twin-screw 3.8. Shawmut and Tremont are fitted with very superior accommodation for first and second class passengers. The large size of these vessels ensures steadiness at sea. Electric fan in each room.
Barber's shop and steam-laundry. Cargo carried in cold stomge.
For further Information, apply to
INCAN
INCANDESCENT
GASOLINE
LAMPS
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, from the best makers.
SHADES, &c,
for GASOLINE AND GAS. LAMPS
at the most moderate prices.
Lamps. fixed up for
Buyers free of charge.
Naphtha of the best kind kept in stock. TAI KHONG CO..
tb, Lyndhurst Terrace. Hongkang, zod May, 1004
"FORE
To Let.
WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
OREST LODGE" Caine Road.
Apply to-
H. N. MODY. Hongkong, 4th May, 1905,
12, KNUTSFORD TERRACE,
KOWLOON, Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LJ). Hongkong, 4th May, 1995,
TO LET.
[537
BUILDING at CAUSEWAY BAY,
present in occupation of the Steata Laundry Co., Ltd.
No. 1, RIPON TERRACE.
Société Francaise des Charbonnages du Tonkin....... DOCKS, WHARVES & GODOWNS. Geo Fenwick & Co., Limited
Ewo Cotton Spinning and Werving Company, Ld.... Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing)
Company, Limited.....
International Cotton Manufacturing Company, Ld..... Laou-kang-mow Cotton Spinning & Weaving Co., Ld. Soy Chee Cotton Spinning Company, Limited.......... CICARS AND TOMCCO COS. Alhambra, - Limited again.....SPER Philippine Company, Limited...ne wadogo Shanghai-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited
MISCELLANIOUS.
Anglo-German Brewing Company, Limited Bell's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited...... Campbell, Moore & Co., Limited.............................. .......
FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, facing Central Stores, Limited......
Polo Ground.
OFFICES in course of erection, CON
NAUGHT ROAD (near BLAKY PIER), GODOWNS: PRAYA EAST.
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Rangkeng goth March, 1995,
Dentistry.
TEIN TING
LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY. STUDIO at No. 14, D'AQUILAR STREET. REASONABLE FEES.
Consultation Free. Hongkong, 10th July, tuna
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM
ΟΥ
DENTISTRY,
M. H. CHAUN, D, D. 5.
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, 37, DES VOX ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG,
General Agents,
Queen's Buildings,
Hongkong, 9th May, root.
BOO CHEONG,
員:
STATIONÉK AND PAPER MERCHANT,
No. 20, Pottinger Street.
FAS always on-hand all varieties of
H Stationery, Printing and Note Papers,
Copying Presses, also Automatic Cyclostyle and Eliams Duplicator.
Hongkong, 23rd February, 1905.
From the University of Pennsylvania, D S.A.!
Hongkong, 4th June, 190%).
•AVARESSE 6
SANDAL CAPSULES
.. Do.
Do.
(New inue) .... China-Borneo Company, Limited......... China Flour Mill Co., Limited.........
China Light and Power Company. Limited...................... China Provident Lean & Moigage Company, Ld.... Dairy Farm Company, Liunited
EL Mondon, Limited ......
Fraser and Neave, Limited
Green and Cement Company, Limited
5. Moutrie & Company, Limited....... Shanghai & Hongkong Dyeing and Cleaning Co, Ld.. Shanghai Gas Company, Limited Shanghal Horse Bataar Company, Limited Shanghai Pulp and Paper Company, Limited.
Shanghai Waterworks Company, Limited. Singapore Dispensary, Limited...... South China Morning Post, Limited
Watson, A. S. & Co., Limited
Pilliam Powell, Limited
10,000 Tls. 75 Tla. 75
8,000 Tis. 100 Tis. 100 3,000 Tis. 5oo Tls. 500
300
-$200 5zoo 77,500 $10 $10 30,000 T15.70 TIs. 20
35,009 Ga 100 Gs. 100
3,400 $10
1,200
none
Tls, 528,210) {11, 19,465)
·FONO
: None $50
Tls. 145,000? 16c03 Tis. 50 Tia sola 148,173
• 5.400 Tis. 5o la so 4,500 The 100 Tia 100
Tis, 32,050
$7.51
5:99
-$1,400. $10,582
Tlä. 35,849
55,537
Tis. 8,011
Interim of 3% a/c 1898
Interim of 4% a/c 1898 on 6,000 shares... 4% for 1897 .............
Stag for year ending 30 6.1900
First year
Final of Tls. 6 making Tis, 9...............
First year.
6d. per share for 1903 ...
(Fical of 60 cents making $1,80 for 1904 ...
Preferential of 7 per cent for 1904.............' *$1 tar 1904...............kuusents ätsimptom
Tis. 5 for 1904 ........................... main
80 cents for 1904 ...
$12 for year ending 31-7-1503
Tls. 5 for 1903 DUBE
$5 div, and $2 bonus for 1903 ...
($2 for 1904
com
*Final of $14 making $71 diazoominnamon
L1 div. and 2/- bonds for 1903 jes
} for year ending 30.4.1904
$13 for year ending 30.) | 1904 .......................... Final of 813 making $17 for 1904...anta $10 for 1904 macumm (Final of 70 cts. and go cis, bonus making) $1.50 for the year coded 30.9.04) *£8 for 1904 wijzigine mamatkemampiamiejinute
Interim of 55 mi)
1st quarterly of Tis: 71, paid 15.305........
·5174 101 %
Sa for year ended 31.10.1904 minu 9% Final of $3 making $5 for the year ending?
30.6.04
NODO
Final of Tls, 5 making Tis. E for 1904.
Tia 10,227ls, 5 for 1903.
Tis. 0,958
Final of Tis, & making Tis. 1qfor-1y04|| Final of 17/6 making 57/6 for 1994 print 561 for year ended 31.7.1904
Tis. 7,369 $1,769
Dr. $39,020
None
(60 cents for year ended 31.5.03 $3,646First year
$700
$84,813
Tis 1,025
"Sia for second balf year 1994 –
(51 div, and 35 cents' bongs to. balf year
ended jay 1904
11. z for half year
Finstof Tis. 4'making Tis, 8 für 19014...
190 ceals
fory
year ended 31.5.1904
Interim of so gents for 1904.
Interim of co-rents for year 1903/190tkm
Printed and Published by J015 FEDRO BRAda, for the Hongkong Telegraph Company, Limited, at the Pripting Office of the Company,
Ng, 1, (en Hausa Kond, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong,
71%
אא
א אאא
543 sales
TTIS 100
T.TIK 125 sale
$180 bayers
133 buyers
Si buvers
30,000
T1.50 T.Th. 50
Tls. 276,6791
Tis. 6,190
Final of Tis. 14 making Ths. 34 for 1904 ... 11%
Tls, 18 buyers
20,000
$100
5100
$450,000
$42,812
Final of $15 making $20 for 1904
9 %
$:24 sellers
$271 buyers
7,000
Stro $100
7,000
"15. 50 Tle, jo
ADAC Tls, 100,000
Dr.
185,987
53 for 1897
Tls. 1,635.
"Tis. of for year ending 399.04 separam na
**
Tis. 60 buyers
Tis: 7 sellers
£40,000
£7,820
No. 3 of 1/6
G $17
50,000
150,000
50,000
Sto G. $10 18/10 L
£1
16,000 Fr. 250 Frs.250
поле
G $572,091
50 cents making G. 51 for 1904 ......
51 %
534 sellers
£4.873
Dr.
£4.029
No. 12 of 1/=48 cents
$490
(Fcs. 251,337)
Fcs.1,529,652)
Fcs. 85,700
Final of Fer. 25 making Fes. 55 for 1903 -
6,coo
535
40,000 $50 $50
525
$70,000
58,577
$3.75 for 1994 namunasi seku
111%
$33 buyers
1
_$$8,473)
$10,000
Final of $2 making $5 for 1004
41 %
Siog sellers.
$300,000
-$29,422.
$750,000
50,000
$50
$50
$33,500
$498,289
($6 dividend and $1 bonus for and hall-) | Lyear 1904 Janowany
17,000
$100 $100
F60,000
6,000
6,000
561 561
5$5,500
5489
Sia div. & 55 bonus for year end. 30,6/04. Sit for 1903
$150,000
2,7501
$100 $100
55.700 T. 100 TIs, 100
31,000 Tls. 100 Tls, 100
37,000
7,500
$100 $100 Tis. 100 Tis, 100.
mone
30,000
$25 525 2,000 T.Tis. 50T.Tis. 30
Tis. 34,000? Tls, 8,000
59.989 Tls. 805
Tit. 900,000, Tla. 487,710) Tis, 59,880) $2,100,000 Ts, 17.500
$40,936 Tis. 48,153
Tls. 10.715 1206,615
Tis. 2,762
(S10 div, and $2 bonus for 1903
157 dividend
11s 5 interim for 1904/5 ..............
Final of Tls, 6 making "Iis..19 for '1904. .. $10 for 2nd hali year making $16 for 1904 Tls. 18 for 1904................ma
51 for year ended 30,6 1904 viajoiss Final of Tls. 5 making 'Tls, 9............one
aa saman a
61%
6%
·8-%
He screarse de deze ze
$204 sellors
Siza buyers Sat selfers Sass buyers STI
Tis. 155 buyers
Tis. 187 rales
$39; sellors Tis 187 buyers
$29 sales Tis. 145 sales
$100,000)
12,000
$3.554
$5 for second half-year making Sto for-1964
50,000
$50 550
$100 $100 9,000 Tis. 25 Tis. 25 150,000
$10,000}
*
$250,000
$37,875
Tis. 13.986
Tis. 680
Final of 56 making $12 for 1904 Tls. 0.87 for the year ending 31.3.1904 ..
71% 91%
$144 buyers
$126 sellers
Tis. 22 sales.
4 %
$200,9947
$11,958
90 cents for 1904
71 X
$13 buyers
$10
6,000
Sto
$50 530
$50,000
$377
$3 for 1904..
71%
540 sellers
$7,000
TIs. 50 TIs. 50 1,400 Tls. 5o Tis. 50 7,726. Tis. 1oo Tls. 100 3,764 Tis 25 TI. 25 17,500
$50
RONE
none
Tla. 828,813 Tls 170,000)
Tis, 67,300
Tis.. 40: (6
(Tis. 3 fipal and Tis. z bonus making?
Tis. 116 tales
↑ 119. 8 for 1904, unetememrowe
Tis: 47 sellers.
Tis. 670
Tis. 735
Bone
Tls. 5,150 $1,747
Tls. g for 1904. ...............MAN Final of Tis. 4 making "Tls. 7 for 1904 man|
None beperki
10
Tis-135
Tis. 1a buyer
*
Final of $1.70 making $320 for 1904
31%
555 sellers!
BODE
Tis. 45 sellers
Tls. 11,655
125,000
15,000 Ts, 50 Tis, 50 $10
$10.
none
Bone Tla. 50,000)
none:
$21,862
Tis. 4 for year ended 31.10.1903. min. so cents for the year ending 31.7.04 ...................
10 %
Siti seller
·3%
Tis. 40.
197
Tia 13,629
Tis. 40
Tls. 10,000
::
Tla,
180:
Tis. 8,115
$100 buyers
$779
nil
T
Sol sellers
Tis. 24,820)
Tls. 1,091
Tis. 25,000
131%
Tlo. 68 sales.
£115 buyers
4,000 $100 $100
none
8,604.
12/6
12/6
Liór
none
1,200
"Sio
Sio
$8,000
51,181
$3 for 1904
Da pow
.6,coo
$15
$127
123
$33
512
$20,000
51,502
24,000
Sis
Nil
50,000 $12
none
4,000 Tis. 50
Tis.
Tls. 30,000
Tis. 718
30,000 $10
поде
53939
100,000
$10
$8,0000
$1,181
++
25,000
$71
41414.
7,00
Tis 50
Tis.
none
Dr. Tls. 1(0,318
4.500
$10
$112,500
32,706
8%
71 %
100,000
Sia
$400,000)
$95,054
First Year
50,000
to
$25,000
א אי : א. אאא אאא
Ssj buyers
Sar solicis
$100
38 seller
Sra sellers.
Tis. 65 sales:
510
•$F# Lales'
$17
Tls, 25 safes
193 buyers
· Szól sales
$177090
$.4 Luyers
21,000
$10
$10
$185,000
$160 buyers
£23,109
£125
7,000
10
£3,000
($1.00
30,000
SIR
Sro
none
$1,747
150 cents)
30,000
SID
$$
1,250
$100
5:00
$50,000
$1,795
5,000
$25 $25
$60,000
55.356
10,000
150 550
560,000
$11,137
-15,000
Sio $10
$2,500
10,000
$100 $100
$475,000
1,500
$100 $100
Sio
550 $30
·550
$5,000
·Dr
$832
Tls. 45,000 Tls. 25,000
7,200
Tis. 140,000
600
$30 350
$20,000
167
Steam Laundry Company, Limited
quibus ins
6,000
525
noto
.. 5,000
$.5
55.24
"nona
10,000
$3)
Straits Ice Company, Limited ....
2,000
$100
$100
$25,000
Straits Trading Company, Limited ..............
250,000
Sio
: $750,000)
$10
$50,000
Tientsin Native City Waterworks Company, Ld Tientsin Waterworks Company, Limited United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Limited. „olju...
Do.
(Founders')
i
9,900
2,941 T., 100 Tĺs, 100! 2,000 T.The 100 †T.The 100 $10
BOBC
Tis, 15,259
Tis 221
.100
$19
Stoj
$20,000
$480
$10
$10
fo ood
SID Sto
$250,000
·$25,000 $*--
$3,000
$2,833
bearache de-ide de 2o da se patatatae.
5:7 buyers
8111 buyers
5227 sellers
$242) buyers
5:51 buyers
6%
$135 buyers
71%
$140 buyers
13 %
Tls. 235 sales
523
$54 sales.
Ti 112 buyers
The 75 sales
Tis:
150 sales.
Tis. 410
$80
£25
57 buyers
S
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