The Straits Budget, 2 September 1909

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  • 27 1 The Straits Budget VOL. LXIII. NO. 2690. Singapore, Thursday, September 2,1909. BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTURA Price 25 cents
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  • 227 1 leadersWhat Orientals Desire 12 Pahang Consolidated ...12-13 Municipal Singapore 18 Aerial Records 18-14 Budding Genius 14 Respectable Tippling ..14-1/i Local and Gbnbkal Roods in Malaya 1 Miss Anderson’s Wedding 2 4 Straits Survey 4 The Philippine Islands 5 Funeral of Father Bes 5 The Y. M. CA.
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  • 825 1 Mr. Sannders, district judge, devoted a large portion of Monday to a claim of Mr. Montagu Harris against Xeo Pee Keng, for 8200 on a promissory note and $113 33 an interest, in payment for services rendered. The case was
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  • 51 1 (Fkom Ot'it Own Coi'.KK.sfoNOKN r.) Kuala Lumpur, August .'5O. Heavy rains have fallen throughout the Federated Malay St.itf s. Moods are feared. It is re ported that landslips have occurred on the F. M. S. Railway between Taipiugand
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  • 2436 3 The following in a list of Home of the presents: Bridegroom to Bride, diamond ring, diamond crescent and one star brooch. The Bride’s sister, Swatow drawn-thread work. Father and Mother of the Bride, cheque. The Misses Anderson, cheque. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Buxton, oil paintings. Miss
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  • 366 4 Among the papers laid before the LfgiaU tive Council, on Friday was tho annual report on the survey department of the Strata Settlements for the year 1908. 8 Mr. A. Murray points out that the cada B tral
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  • 101 4 The report of Dr. D. K. McDowell the registrar of births and deaths, shows that during the weekendtd August 21, 212 deaths were registered in Singapore, equal to ft death-rate of 39.72 per thousand of the e-ti* mated population. Malarial fever claimed 33 deaths, dysentery 2d, bronchitis
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  • 105 4 A Ceylonese named F. A. Pereira was before the district judge, on Friday charge of criminally intimidating Dr. Gabriel Gunawardene, who a*ked for the man release, saving that lie h id been >'' s and had previously borne a good charade. He had promised to return to Ceylon,
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  • 1358 6 To the (ilory of God and for the Good of Young Men, this Building is Erected by the Young Men’s Christian Association, the site having been granted by Government. His Excellency the < Jovernor,
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  • 878 6 The evening meeting at the Victoria theatre in commemoration of the sivti, versary of the founding of the local hrancl, was also a great success. Perrott, C. B., the Officer Com Jandi Iroops, made a model chairman, aodthf programme was one of great interest to Z members
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  • 1090 9 The ordinary half yearly meeting of shareholdero in the Hongkong and Shanghai Haoking Corporation was held at Hongkong, on August 21, under the chairmanship of Mr. W j Gresson. The Chairman said—Gentlemen,—In lay- 5 e fore you the statement
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  • 41 9 (From Our Own Corrkspondbnt.) Kuala Lumpur, August 30. Towkay Yap Hon Chin has again been before the magistrate, aud his bail has been extended. The inquiry by the Chinese Protectorate into the secret society tragedy has been concluded.
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  • 144 9 Tho Bangkok Times reports that at 9 30 a. ra. the other day the Budge, one of Messrs. Howarth Erskine, L*d ’s launches, was approachiug that firm’s wharf after being up river. At that moment the Brilliant, the Urge launch of the Standaid Oil Co., was coming
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  • 210 9 (Fbom Our Own Corrkspokdknt.) Penang. August 81. The Pioang Gazette publishes a vigorous leader dealing with the high death rate in the Straits Settlements. it advocates as a preliminary step towards proper and efficient reform, thp suspension of
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  • 240 9 Ng Yow Lim rents a room at 35 New Market Road. He sleeps there a greater portion of the day and sells porridge at night, lie went out at 5.30 p.ra. on Saturday, locking his room, and returned at 12.30 a.m., when the door was still locked,
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  • 124 9 Mr. J. Bromhead Matthews (late of Presgravo and Matthews, Penang, and now Attorney-General, Bahamas) lias been appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to bo Attorney.General of tho Straits Settlements, iu succession to Mr. W. J. Napier. Mr. Matthews will arrive in Singa| ore to take
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  • 639 10 Tho third magistrate continued, on Friday afternoon, the case in which atowkay named Lee See Tat was charged with permitting his house to bo used as a common gaming bouse, and Wee Ah Teng, his cook, was charged with assisting
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  • 444 10 There was a very good attendance at the Teutonia Club on Saturday evening, when Madame Monti-Baldini, a famous Italian operatic Finger, now paying a visit to the East, gave a concert under the patronage of His Excellency the Governor, and members of the Government
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  • 115 10 In the Supreme Court, Hongkong, on Angust 23, Sir Francis Piggott (Chief Justice) and Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz (Puisne Judge) presiding, an important judgment was delivered in the case in which Messrs. S. J. David and Co. appealed against the decision of the Chief Justice, of December
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  • 33 10 (Fkom Our Own Corkkspondknt.) Kuala Lumpur, August 30. The Malay Mail learns privately that a further Opium Conference will take place at the Hague, shortly, on the suggestion of America.
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  • 656 10 An inquest wag held at lpol.,on Amm„ m hv Mr. Langston 0“ the cause of tl.t d, at w of a Chinese coolie named N„ Hoi who died at Ulu Piah Mine on August 23. 60 In the course of his
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  • 44 10 Through first-class tickets to the Fecta** ted Malay States Railways only will be>w» at the rate of live cents per mile o> tourists in accordance with the e K. an( j force on the Johore State Railway Federated Malay States Railway#*
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  • 319 11 The farewell dinner given Mr. W. R J. rtawtiv assistant superintendent of police, “V Adel phi Hotel, on Saturday night, was IVnat success in every respect. Those V,* t included, besides the guest of the evening. Mr. Hauling KlioJea deputy nublic prosecutor,
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  • 161 11 Mrs. Mary E. Fitzgerald, widow of tbe late Bishop James VV. Fitzgerald, died July 5, in her sixty-eighth year, at lier summer home in Ocean Grove, N. J. The Cbristiau Advocate says of Mrs. Fitzgerald: Ever since the translation of her beloved daughter, Cornelia, at Peuang,
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  • 100 11 It is reported that the following changes will shortly take place in official circles in Ihe F. M. S.: —Iu consequence of Mr. \V. H. Dinsmore, acting magistrate at Seremtan, going on leave early next month, Mr. C. N. Maxwell, from Taiping, will go to Seremban to act
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  • 490 11 Messrs. G. A. Derrick, R. Pierce, and F. M. Elliot, the committee appointed on the Pith day of February, 19u9, have considered the practicability of acquiring and converting Hurricane House aud grounds into a new Tanglin Club and report to the members
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  • 147 11 Sunday was the patronal feast or anniversary of the Singapore Catholic club. It was also the feast of Our Lady of Victories, therefore, tho double event was commemorated by a pontifical high mass, tho celebrated being Bishop Bourdon, assisted by Father Rivet and other clergy. The mass
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  • 488 11 (From Our Ow.v Corkkspondknt.) Ipoh, August 28. The I poh Annual Athletic Sports opened yesterday in dull weather, followed, later in the day, by rain. The attendance was moderate. The results are as follows:— One hundred yards.—Heat 1, D. M. Barry.
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  • 51 11 We are informed, that the agents of the Merbroau Estate Syndicate, Messrs. Sharpe, Ross and Co., Ltd., have received a wire from London to the effect that, yield* ing to tiie prevailing feeling there, it haa been proponed to issue 2s Hh&reH, and not 5a. an wan originally
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  • 38 12 Kkhhlkk. —On August 27, at 127, Srrangoon Road, Singapore, the wife of Walter J. L. Kessler, of a son. Ong.—On August 30, at their residence, Neil Road, Singapore, to Mr. aud Mrs. Ong Boon Tat, a son.
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  • 75 12 Farrant- A ndkrson. —At the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on August 25, by the Rev. Bishop W. F. Oldham, D. D., and the Rev. J. A. Gray, M. A., Geoffrey Upcotfc Farrant, of Singapore, third son of Robert Farrant, of Westbourne, Sussox, and late of Growen-Cullompton, Devon, to Georgina Milne
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1040 12 -Straits Times, August ‘i(i. There was a good deal of suggestive interest in the terse summary of Dean Welldon’s sermon sent to us by Reuter yesterday. The preacher was dealing with the task that lies before Bishop Ferguson* Davie in Singapore, and remarked that the Episcopacy seemed
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    • 1217 12 —StraitH Times, August ‘27. Some recent papers from London S nr„i us with more information than has v P available locally in reference to the cri** in the history of Pahan* Consolidated Thera are a few shareholders here.no doubt know more about the actual position and prospects of
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    • 1135 13 Straits Times, August 28. A good many matters of importance were brought under discussion at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council, but we need not attempt to deal with more than one or two of them. In the answers given by the Colonial Secretary to Mr. Baker’s questions
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    • 1219 13 -r> m r J —Straits Times, August 30. Since last week all doubt about the coming of the aeroplane must be at ao end. The flights at Kheims have demonstrated, even more than the crossing of the English Channel, that a new and valuable method of travel has
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    • 1154 14 —Straits Times, August 31. Curiously characteristic of German thoroughness is t ie story told of Professor Wilhelm Ostwald. A Japanese student asked the professor how budding genius could be recognised, and he saw at once that this was a poser. So he proceeded to write a study in
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    • 2200 14 -Straits Times, September 1. It is not often that the purely local problems of British policy can be said to have an interest so far away as we are from the places they affect. We pay our quota towards imperial expenses, and are concerned in the state of
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    • 91 12 be poHfree price of the Straits Times i» IHa year The post free price of the Straits Budget is $l4 a year. It is not necessary to subscribe for a year. The subscriptions for shorter periods are at the same propor* tionate rate as for a year. The Straits Budget
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  • 33 12 DEATH. Tam. —Ou August 28, at 5.30 a.m., at 188, Telok Ayer Street, Singapore, after one year of severe illness, Mrs. Tan Hap Leong, aged 35 years. Penang and Java papers please oopy.
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  • 526 16 Mr. W. J. Napier will probably leave Singapore for borne oo September 10. Mr*. A. .1. Amery has successfully undergone. the operation for which hljo went home. Capt. Mcßride, formerly of the steamer Katanga, has been appointed port superintendent at Hongkong for the Weir line. Capt Chancellor,
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  • 791 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —I have to day received the Financial Times containing the directors' Edited Report,” dated 29th July, sent me on the instructions of our directors and trustees. This Report of the proceedings is
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  • 159 16 The Customs authorities made a large wi znre of cocaine on August 25, on the steamer Hong Moh, which arrived at Rangoon f r the Straits and China on August 18 Atat 840 a m on the Friday as
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  • 155 16 Tan Chee Siang keeps a restaurant at Tanjong Pagar ami does a quick-lunch business. Ho went to the Teluk Ayer maiket in Robinson ltd., on Friday morning last, with a bag of copper coins totalling $lO in value. He was buying vegetables from a stall when he
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  • 162 16 A correspondent writes to a contemporary —In the Rangoon Gazette a day or two ago there was an article stating that the mt tubers of the medical profession all over India were anxious for mt dical registration, and yet no correspondent has taken up his pen in protest
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  • 13 17 Correspondence rTbe Straits Times is not responsible for the opinions of its correnpondents.]
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  • 563 17 To the Editor of the Straits Times. gj r —Telegraphic summaries, especially of ■neeches, are often misleading; but if Bishop Welldon did say, in whatever connection, as he in reported, that Episcopacy is suitable to the Oriental mind, because democracy was alien to it. Orientals did
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  • 148 17 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —May I state in reference to the remark which appeared in your account of the Malay demonstration at Miss Anderson’s wedding, “they were marshalled by Mr. Colraan,” that a committee of eight Malay gentlemen were entrusted with entire
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  • 556 17 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —In your most interesting account of Unexplored Malaya yon mention that Mr. Ridley is particularly emphatic as to. the damage which is being worked by opium amoDg the Terniangoh people. He mentions one case, which came to his notice,
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  • 344 17 The Hon. James T. Dubois, recently ap pointed Consul General for the Unite d States at Singapore*, with Mrs. Dubois and th<*ir son, who has just graduated from Yale University, sailed from America on Tuesday for this port via Europe. They expt
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  • 138 17 The agents of the above estates, Messrs. Behn, Meyer «fc Co Ltd., report as follows: Tho manager of the Singapore Para Rubber Estates, Ltd., Perhentian Tinggi, informs us, to day, that at tho last rubber auction in London his rubber obtained the highest price and
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  • 129 17 The acting Colonial Chaplain (the Kev. H. C. Henham) in his sermon at St. George’s Church, Penang, on Sunday evening, referred to the Consecration of the Bishop elect of the Diocese, at St. Paul’s Cathedral. London. In the course of his remarks he pointed out some of
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  • 2211 20 London, August 25. Further news from Monte Video says that about eighty people perished in the collision between tho Norddeutsche Liner Schlesien and the Argentine excursion steamer, the Colombia. j Those rescued were mostly sailors of the Colombia, as the passengers wero sleeping at the moment of the
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  • 631 21 Berlin, August 25. King Edward is returning to England on September 4. He has received Slatin Pasha at Marienbid. At the airshin meeting at Bheims Major Parseval had a mo'-t friendly rec* p’ion. The Turkish C unoil of Ministers has "greed finally to the Bagdad railway being laid
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  • 58 21 (From a Cokrkspondrnt.) Malacca, September 1. Excitement prevails at Jasin, Cheng Kee and his wife, who are well connected, having been charged with the theft of 186 lbs. of crepe rubber from the Bukit Asah&n estate, the property of the Malacca
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  • 181 21 Lim Peng Tyo, short sentence prisoner No. 462, was tried before the second magistrate, on Tuesday, on the prosecution of Mr. Wolferstao, Inspector of Prisons, on a charge of attempting to pass a letter from the prison. Ridapan, a Javanese sub-warder
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  • 153 21 Speaking at the ordinary general meeting of the Singapore Electric Tramways, Ltd held iu London, Mr. Edmund Davis, presiding, referred to the loss on the year’s working, already mentioned in our columns, and mentioned the deceased revenue arising from the sale of subsidiary coins. The Tramway Co., was
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  • 142 21 The Selangor Firo Brigade held their fifteenth annual competition diilln on Saturday, at the Firo Station in Malacca Street under very d» preMting weather conditions. The Captain China’* Cup for the beat aggregate all round in the coinp« titn ns, a* well a« the pri/.o for the
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  • Sporting Intelligence. NOTES IN GENERAL.
    • 398 24 Cricket Fixtures. The following cricket fixtures have been arranged and agreed to by the various clubs concerned. Tiie arrangements come into force at Christmas next 1909. Christmas, Penang v. Perak, at Penang. 1910. Chinese.New Year, Colony v. F. M. S., at Koala Lumpuf. Easter, Singapore v. Selangor, at Singapore.
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    • 77 24 Singapore Shield. Entries closed last night for the Singapore Football Association shield competition. The Middlesex Regiment will put throe teams in the field, and the following one each :—R. G. A., Police, Y. M. C. A., S. R. C., and S C. C., making a total of eight
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    • 263 24 Selangor Golf Club. The follow ing cards were returned for the Augnst Medal:— D. H. Laidlaw 94—15=79 H. C. Pratt 93 7 86 H. F. Browell 102 15 87 D. G. Highot 91 scr. 91 G. D. Freer 101—10 91 W. C. A. Dainton 109 18 91 Malacca Golf
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    • 298 24 Long Range Match. On Sunday afternoon, the A class members of the Singapore Rifle Association held a long range handicap shoot at Balestier, seven shots and a sighter at 8JO,900 and 1,000 yards, for a spoon. There were about a dozen competitors. The shooting took place under difficult
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    • 138 24 WWI The Ipoh Sports. So far as athletic performances are con ih f «P? r <“ Ipol. on Friday Saturday last do not appear to have suffered from the rainy weather reported from p "i? however much the social side of the may have been marred. Under the pZ
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  • 366 24 The third magistrate’s coart had tbe appearance of a counterfeiters’ den, oo Friday, when a complete outfit, which had been secured in a raid made by the police at 68-1 River Valley Rd. was opened from its numer ous wrappings
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  • Shipping in Port.
    • 461 25 August as Bangkok, Ger str, Nicolaisen, Bangkok, Bebn S Oer sir, Bamlelin, Bangkok, Mitsui Bassan Raiska Clan Mdver, Beil str, Bedford, Durban, Paterton Simons Hydra, Nor str. Kirsebom, Bangkok, Borneo Coy Ltd Hild, Nor str, Jensen, Caloutta, Borneo Coy ad Mnchaic. Oer str, Zollmer, Swatow B. Meyer Solva, Nor
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    • 562 25 August ag Dovre, Nor str, Bangkok Hebe, Brit str Penang and Deli Giang Ann, Dut str, Samarang via ports Kiitna, Brit str, P. Swettenham and Penang Romany. Brit str, P. Sana bee T-rei'i. Brit str, Macas ar via ports B n Yong Seng, Brit str. Palembang Vahidol Siam str,
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  • 247 25 Singapore, September 1, 1900. PRODUCE. Qambier buyers II87^ do (Cube No. 1) unpicked 14 17$ Copra Bali 860 do Pontianak 800 Pepper, Black 12 87* do White 6% 19.874 Sago Flour Sarawak 8.20 do Brunei No. 1 M 8.10 Pearl Sago 4.28 Coffee Bali H 9800 Coffee
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  • 181 25 Another attempt to win the America Cop from the yachtsmen of the United Staten in foreshadowed. The announcement is made by the New York II* raid, which states that Sir Thomas Lipton has presented his challenge to the Nmw York yachting
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    • 373 26 y m y* 1 CONSTIPATION. *s'” A Kkliabl* and Lasting Cl' ax. CooHlipatiou means that there Is not a regular and sufficient action of the bowels. zL I# !f y ftI1 eroQa disorder because it prevents the body's waste from leaving the system, and this waste noon turns to poison.
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