Straits Times Overland Journal, 26 February 1874

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  • 23 1 Foe Dkspatch per P. O. Steamer Goi.coxda." The Straits Times OVERLAND JOURNAL. VOL. X.V.-NO. 284. SINGAPORE, TIU'RSDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1874. Price, 45 Ct
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  • Dmestic Occurrences.
  • 350 1 FIBBUABt 1874. Gambier. Black Peppir White Pepper.. Sago Hoar, Sarawak Pearl Sago.... C ffee, R>ntyne.. -8J Tin 40b. Mole twiri 7 do do 5 do T. Cloths... do do Benares Opium new Ex on Lond<> ths sight 4 4/3*. Priva 4/4. Guild >ock Shares ($lOO Singapore
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  • 679 1 Thk last Overland Journal was dated the 12th February. The Meikong armed on t with the French mail the 16th January. The homeward ach mail left this per Ava on the 19th inst. The Golt' hicli ta on the present mail, left Hongkong on the 19th, arri afternoon,
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  • 225 1 We have been favoured by the Netherlands Consul General with the fol lowing- copies of telegrams received by him Ar.heen, 7th nj. No further hostilities. Cholera much d< Chiefs le, but people peaceful Grand-ne-phew of Sultan Mm Shah, Tunko Daoed, nged nine years, elected Sultan with four
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  • 366 1 THE BURNING OF THE COLUMBIA." Yesterday morning we gave a brief notice concerning? the fire which broke out on board the ab<^ and we are sorry now to record the total destruction of the arrived bore from Macao, and took in car_ro of rice f>r San Francisco her crew
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 137 1 ga«engrr& The following passengers haCe rived, left, or b the port, during the lit. Per steamer Galaiea> from Hamburg, on the 1 tganore. Mr. Lutj< For Hongkong. Dr. and Mrs. Platen, Miss Clausen. Shanghai. Miss Koey, Mr. Oersted, steamer 1 from Liverpool, on the 14th inst japore. Mr. and Mra.
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  • 1719 2 H. K. TJ >\ KKNOK'S VISIT I LANGKAT. have ba h start] fn the kingdom ol ami i tllllt part the La: kat ami .1 icb into the *ia. The mouth of the Jujrra w sinthese law }>i' gunboat 'he bank held t be d to
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  • 567 2 TREATIES WITH MALAY STA TES 1W i have received from the Colonial eretary copies of the old treati<tween this (Jovernment and Perak, Salangoie, and Rambow and Johole' which we intend laying before our readers as soon as spare permi The Peimk treaties are not of so mi: importance, now that
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  • 446 3 t through which it h. it the Settlement should in i: vcr dation. Indeed, its de incompetence have been i -failing theme for the lie writers. It is true that the Police is not a particularly popular institution in most ntries; !>ui we question if in any. other
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  • 889 3 Tm Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer, a title due to the ingenuity of Sir Harry Ord's administration, in itution for the less pretentious one of Colonial Surgeon, publishes in the o[' the 1 lth instant a Report on the Hospitals of tlie Colony tor 1 7 :2 Tli
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  • 615 3 The movements of the French mail irtiMHBfTS at this port are somewhat wayward, and our merchants here are sometimes sorely pressed to complete their mail business in time, especially if, ms happens frequently, a steamer drops in late in the afternoon. 1 cially was this the
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  • 94 3 We have received from the Directors a copy of the Report of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company for the six months ending 31st December last, to be laid before the Shareholders next Monday, aud which we reproduce below. \Ye are glad to find that Company
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  • 299 3 To ike Uarehol *j**f Pagar Dock < Herewith your 1> tors have the pleasure of laying you the Balance Sheet and Profit aud ss account of the Company for j "half year ending 31st December, l v After making allowance for ail necessary payments, there remains on working
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  • 1082 4 (Translated for the Straits Times.) Tm 1 Batavia papers which down 1«> tli«' sth iot»taiit, publish the following telegram limn rai an Swieteiij duttd tl ultimo be belief that the ibiniseion of the t bund. Pan^:nd Sultau appear t<> be wilut will D< they li
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  • 266 4 t follow il summary for Europe, Java Bode of the lith instant General Van Swieten has invited traders from Singapore and i at Acheen, and carry on trade there." Tl. joined telegram regarding the I serters who li lr wax Samaraog tVora Singapore -amarang. 12 ruary.—The military men who had
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  • 751 4 A moat dreadful case of amok lately took place at Ternate (Moluccas,) under circumstances thus related in the Sourabaya Courant of the 27th ultimo: -pondent writes as follows, to us from Ternate on the 17th instant At between 3 aiid 4 p. m. ou the 13th Decem- I ber last,
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  • 803 5 ■ecial co i the Batavia Ho Bivouac, Penajnng, Feb. 1874. During the '2bik and '2tith Jan little of importance happened. Only, nwag received in the bivoua Soltan had died of cholera, aiid that sev» utht- sunk nnder tli< disease. .A also, this fearful epitl tily demands various
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  • 842 5 (Traualuitd from the Straits TitA OTHBI centenarian lias died at may b :om the following paragraph which appears in the of the olst ultimo vily. Ti vs ago, an old nan 11- died in San Ni:au waiM niiirried twice and during her two marriages, had
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  • 1249 5 What impudence for a new arrival to presume to '_cv about in this into bomb-nail I those thing! whiefa may piw selves lo ustomed orl sent from oint of view the men and manners wherewit: n of fortuitous circumstain i rought him in It inav Ijc
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  • 5857 6 Treaty of Commercial Alliai. Ben the Honorable Eugliab East India Company *y the Rajah of Perak, setfr. Walter Sewell Cracroft, in virtue r him by the !I inder Bannerman, -t' Prince ot' Wales' Island and > dependencies. Done on the 27th linn idbui, \l\\\, antfioecin'j to the
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  • Correspondence.
    • 250 8 ■'ram mi Oeemnomml Oorretpomdent.) M M.Atrx, L9TB FICB. Is7l. 'In k M;i!;iv steamer Telegraph arrived here from Kianu; early las! Sunday morning, and will sail again for t hat port morrow. The !>. I. S. Compai umr mmda, Captain Sharp, from Singapore en route to Penang, Maulmaiu, and fctan--11.
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    • 374 8 I the Editor of the Daily Ti, Sik —Since the Dutch Expedition landin Acheen, the accounts received from independent sources have been meagre in the extreme, and the Butch Authorii have heen most reticent, and occasionally published despatches which ran only be received with great caution. From a person
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    • 376 8 To the Editor of thr Dmitg Times. 8l*:-J have read with much in th e i irhich Bppeared in mil, of leu. W t)# above fubject, and whilst I i i.Oit that all W ,n4euts e>:i,'t llil ;i W4wg our compel I Mi- principal Hmm are
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  • 26 8 News of the Fortnight. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY. ER ML IL itoimer 1/ at I i. \f. yesterday, and may ted here next Tuesday at tern -'lay morm
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  • 12 8 E Ocean S. S. Dreni ■day afternoon, ait looked heiv t4j-morn»\v morning.
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  • 10 8 Manila I 'ed this morning, en r ual and Cadi/.
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  • 18 8 k B. I. S. N iuuk, < Miarp. I 'ta via Bunnah port*, P anchored iv the ruads ,oa.
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  • 30 8 1 ;imer Pulal left Julu the 10th, as usual, (l t, Padang, Qualla Moar, ami J. 65 miles up the I eatr t assetigers than ordinarily. >»Ed in this diitri
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  • 59 9 hieh •asocial anl 11. M. Jugra i pira as w probable, ing passed ill a i Sl we st-ii nut aft* that probably ma maraud. loa y j 1; been dealt with ai Ms fate would be 1 dont be a dangero wn think j M. Otfii carrying out tl
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  • 22 9 The Spanish steamer Pa nay, I Elizalde, from Manila 7th inst, arrived at the Tanjong Pagar wharf this morning.
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  • 18 9 The Ocean Compam Divnnii ii December and I I Ith i; arrived at the Tanjong wharf .\y afteruooi
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  • 45 9 in our yesterday's report of I proceed we understand that H. K. the Governor has temporari>pointed Mr. J. G. Davidson as Commissioner with Took] after t cose Mr. Davidson will hay the Linghy river, close to M discharge o( uties before fa turn to Singapore.
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  • 57 9 tiderable quaniging to a pore trader wsi Straits under I bob rule, and the 11th i lin the Siugap utainii two bags bags having the o\\ The Chinese boatmen, two in numb* were arrested on a charge of fraudulent possession. The case is still under inhere, but the prisoners will
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  • 423 9 The grew to Jnhore, while no d blessing in most v gtford unwonted fa- to fraudulent j debtors, wh go over th> to elude j and un »vernment takes imme- diate a^ rangement with »eral dud enlightened to I give npplication from our Co I must increase to a dis
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  • 21 9 Dutch Capt. V*es in Rhio, arrived at Tanjong wharf on Saturday afternoon, and left yesterday iof Ben kalis.
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  • 18 9 wheat. Shadwell returned to bar- irduring Saturday night, In 11. .M. s. Iran h eompanied by H. M
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  • 16 9 learner Japan, Capt. Milm from Pinang 12th ami Main 15th inst., anchored in the this morning.
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  • 15 9 The IJiitisli steam apt. Fox, from Palembau^- L2th inst., anchored in the roads this morning.
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  • 181 9 I hi ie of the forthcoming U appears among our adverts to-day, certainly offers as fair a bid for good sport as we have yet had on the Siugapore course. The pria iid valuable, and -ill brii goodly array of horses to compete for them id point out at the
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  • 14 9 H. M. S. Rmaldo returned to harbour this morning, from Salangore.
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  • 24 9 MEBSBS. J*AUDIXE MaIHBSON Co/s steamer Statesman left Saigon at 11 a. M. on Monday, and may be expected here to-morrow en route to Calcutta.
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  • 15 9 Thk German steamer ("apt. Mangelseiij from Hoogkoog luth instant, arrived at Tanjoug Pagmr wharf erday.
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  • 15 9 The British steamer Vidar> Captain Barrow, from Sourabaya 12th instant, anchored in the roads yesterday.
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  • 28 9 The Spanish steamer Bueuu f Capt. Eehevaiia, from Liverpool 23rd ember, via Cadiz and Suez Canal, arrived at Tanjong Pagar wharf yes- terday afternoon, en route to Manila.
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  • 19 9 The ries Maritime^ ier Capt Batemai), from Batavia 15th inst., arrived at the Borneo Company's wharf ti s morning.
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  • 40 9 Thk steamer Pu/j?, belonging to 11. 11. the Maharajah of Johore, returned from the usual monthly visit to the rivers on th coast of the Johore territory yesterday. The places touched at were all quiet and shewing is ot pn
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  • 113 9 With respect to the trial of the nine pirates, which we stated somed ilia, we understand that the prison- 'ii landed and will be tried in customary form by the native coort on shore; the Italia, rer, will continue to lie otf the village to afford security to Tunku dia
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  • 453 9 1 ka\> w.atiox of telegram trom Lieut. iera] van Swieteu, transmitted from Pinang Oth February. On '29th January, recoanoicaiioe m;. itb in search of key to eouimu- nication between Moenkins 22 and vere tire from fortification of 22, by wh 3 killed 18 wounded, among first Lieut. van Leeuwen, last
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  • 21 9 The British steamer Ran Yona Sc»o, Capt. Crnik, from Rnn^icnk 14th inst, anchored in the roads this morning.
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  • 27 9 The British sn>nnv>r Sfnfe* tnt. Valiant, from Honjrkonqp vi n f arrivnd at Jardine, Math'penn and Co's wharf lhi« forenoou, en route to Pinang and Calcutta. -i
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  • 33 9 The homeward French mail steamer Ara, Capt. Flenriais, from Shanghai 6th, Hongkong 12 th, and Saigon 15*h instant, arrived at the Borneo Company's wharf yesterday afternoon, and left at 2 p. k. to-day.
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  • 192 9 Dumber of Commerce was held yesterday at the Exchange Rooms, to give an expression of the views of the Chamber on the recent action of the Government in Perak and Lar*v>t. The object of «Ti«* mootW wan oxplntnH in n f^w ppnmrln b? W, H. Read, Esq., the Chairman, after
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  • 24 9 The P. .vjth the English i n January, left Galle on the 18th instant, and therefore proba t bout next Wedm
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  • 17 9 The British Capt. Bradshaw, from I ldli and Malacca liHh inst. ,d in the roads this mornin*'.
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  • 399 9 The Pinaiig- G of the 12th instant has the following in tide on the of Pul. ,d the Bindings by the recent treaty wit Perak The Cession of Pnlo Pancr> r <» and the Dintl its. It is ti vr thi» and Junk 3UCO Tii the Diudingb ;hut we find
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  • 23 10 I i to-ilay paid a that paid him 11. I]. Sir Ait;a!l\ at ii salatc hum Port Cunl llKlll\ I
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  • 28 10 I hi: Vl and in S lit r Moi, the two left i.; 11. tii.' (i oliiin during ml nie- now m<l, aud will bar, c here to-
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  • 139 10 utxJ, U h wounds and brunes. Mr. Scott wma drivii r <>t horses, being indthe all i town, became unmanageable coming ov< r I Ji Brid a run. 'I ang him by the bit, but > the i him, and at animal >'l at lull speed down the incline, and
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  • 114 10 Tin; following translation a tcleii from Acheen to Hatavia forwarded In a mercantile firm here, has been sent us for publication. Telegram dated Acheen, 11 tli Pel wired !m!i February from Penan] ted by Toekue Nauta of M o-Mikins ;ii,'ainst our Ally T Nea ot with a
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  • 16 10 Tiik British >t .''.tpt. Reynold^ from Batavii l^th instant, anchored in the ronds during last night.
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  • 24 10 The Straits steamer Beumore t Capt. Guan 1 1 in. from Pinaug 1 9th and Malacca 22nd inst., anchored in the roads this morning.
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  • 17 10 11. Iff. gunboat Growler, Capt. Stewart, from PSnang :2 Otli instant, anchored in the roads this morniuir.
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  • 14 10 Tin. Sianv Captain Orton, from Bangkok 1 6th instant, anchored in the roads yester-
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  • 32 10 1 ii k British steamer Lotus Capt. tie, from London tith January, via Canal, arrived at Tanjong Pagar wharf on Saturday afternoon, and will leave for Batavia, Samaraug, and Sourabaya oo Thursday.
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  • 41 10 Tiik Kreiieli Bteamer /W///, Captain Koura, cuuie int<» harbour on Saturday, from the Carimons, bringing as the Resident of Rhio, who landed officially at Dalhousie Pier at 2 r. if and became a guest at GU>vernn»ent House during Ins stay here.
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  • 28 10 amer 6'/ Capt. Gardner from Hongkong 16th i inst., arrived at Tanjong Pagar wharf i erday morning, and will leave for Pinangand Calcutta at 1 p. \i. to-day.
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  • 73 10 \N k have received from Dr. Kandell a "able oi Meteorological observations lor the Month of December, of which the following is a summary Highest reading of Barometer iv the mouth 29.94.5 iv. -> sea level about 30 feet. i n the sbiul«» Highest Temperature observed 9o. do do 71.°
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  • 50 10 ShADI BLL and --liile, aeeoinpan the Hon'ble the Colonial etary, visited H. 11. the Maharajah of Johore, who entertained them dinner, 19th instant. The Admir; 1 the Saw Mills in oonm with 1 1 ,i w ra what he saw. On arriving and departing a salute of 1 7 gun
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  • 91 10 ibbiug c rred on in tain walsne, roiice -ua^i-uai''. aim Lieut. H. Klli>, Marine Mag >ittin^- ;i> a Quai I irt, all the material will 1,-avc the Colony. Then two prii,JamesPrest >nand William II .who were charged with voluntarily causing grievous hurt, WiUon, the man who was stabhedj having far
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  • 202 10 a notification in the lasi Government Ga learn that the (iovernur in Council has postponed the coming 1 into operation of the Courts Ordinance, 187-3, till the Ist of Jane next A Return Cricket match between a Singapore eleven and an eleven from the Officers of 11.
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  • 582 10 Hongkong appears to be peculiarly unfortunate in the matter <•(' tires and accidents. The Houjfkonj; Times of the 1 lth February, invea the following short account of the capsize «>t" a new steamer crowded with passengers on the morning of the 13th, by which it is believed about one hundred
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  • 310 10 The Italian steam Capt. Bozzani, from Batavia 21st inst., arrived at the Borneo Compan^s wharf terday. O\ Sunday last, inform as rebhe Police O: hat a very serious murder had been committed in the Johore River. The Commoner of Polkv, Mr. Inchi Mahomed Sally, immediately proceeded to
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  • 657 11 arnbals, TL la <>th V Bri' i-uary. British.^ main 14th Jan. Belgian ,ig un y t h Feb. Fri i Ftbrii is. Black, Saigon 10th F. tons, Tanbe, London 30th J Dan tons, Fischer, Pinang 7th 1 Saturday, 14th February. nish steamer Panay, tonß, Elizalde, Manila 7th Feb.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 592 11 'shTppTng in the harbour. Datk Ship's Names. Captains. Flag and Rig. Tons. l of ac- Where From. Consignees or Agents. Destination. rival. MEN-OF-WAR. Iron Duke Arthur H. M. steamer Feb. 14 Main Admiral. Frolic Buckler H. M. steamer 464 Feb. 14 1 Malacca Labuan Rinaldo EL M. steamer Feb. 18Salangore
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 113 12 wwnmmwm pamhui miii, Dat«. Flag. ip'« Name. Captain. From. To. Feb. 3 Australian Ondite Francie GeUetich Zeou ~LWe^!i 'D^f lAshbui^n Mom. W 3 "«>•! M^.hLlihm vanDeurwn Texel narang .British Kaxro Mann Liverpool SingaiS -gf^n JuhaAm, Han BmJ^Si Mauritius w 8 French [nive r8 Le Cart F,, rmo a Melbwae ~SSS-*
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