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The DECCAN BANK. Limited. was established as n Limited Com- iany in the "lat 1893. having been oated by Messrs. Dornbjee and Nowrojee I’ntlumjee. The oilice of the Comrain is situated at No. 561. B uwnni Pett, Poona. The Bank has a Capital ol Rs. 2.50.000, and is the first institu- tion of its kind to lie cstﬂlillhllt‘tl in Poona and the Molussil towns of the Bombay Presidency. From 115 commencement. the Bank has had it most successful career. transacting a great volume of business. and its to: rity may be gauged from the an me dividends which it hru consistently paid since the {int year of its establishment. The Agents and Secretaries of the Dec- can Bank are Messrs. Nowmiee Pudumjee 8: Co. of Poona.

The GADAG COTTON AND YARN SPINNIXG MILLS. This concern is named ﬂllt‘l’ the town of Gating in the Dhnrwnr District at the Southern Mnhrattn Country. The.

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and at Calcutta in the following rear. The firm deals tn woollen rand Cotton goods, in Which they represent large Engliin firms. They also represent tiootlln“ Wall A' (0.. Liverpool. for mint; and varnishes : W. S. Dunn ' C0. New York. for all kinds of pictnrr moulding; .‘iIt-ssrs. Stonet‘ Bros. Latiraster, for leather and oil t‘lotlis: SIr. Gustav Bot-hm Uﬁenbath. Ger many. for soaps and pertnrnrry. They llﬂVt‘ﬂlt‘O a Very extensu‘t- connection with manufacturers on the Continent of Europe. Besides the Bombay Home the firm ha: a hranrlr at Delhi and agencies at Rawal Pindi. (‘awnporc‘ Karachi. Amritsar, Madras and screral other towns. There are also branches at Singapore. Penang, Shanghai. and Hong.Kong. By branches and agencies the firm is thoroughly well represented throughout the East and Far East. The present proprietor is Mr. George Bern menu. and )Ir.A. M. Stewart is Manager lot Calcutta. Mr. Stewart

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mill: have a capacity of about 1.800 spindles and give employment to nearly 600 men. The business is in the hands of the Deccan Bank under the able management of Mr. Newmiee Pudtnnjee.

Messrs. B. RIGOLD a: BERG- MANN. Merchants and Importers of English and Continental Manu- factures, Calcutta. The Head omce of the firm is at 8:2. Bisho gate Street Within. London. I’ll: Indian branches ware estahlislietl ﬁrst at Bombay in the year 1879

i do n ti fr c d wi t h t h i I line of busi- n c s s i n India for 23 y e n r 5. He tame It‘ India in the year {883 to join the firm now It n o w n as Stewart Mat- leeruie 8: Co.. having for. mcrly nerved in the London office of the dime ft r in. known in the Metrop-

olis n~ Stewart, Gent & Co.

Mr. JAMES LOW REID. Sn- mittendent and Manager, Hooghli king and Engineering Company. Limited. Howrah, Calcuttac win born at Arbroath. Scotland, and educated in his native trith Being intended for an engineering career he was apprentiCed at the Delis Iron Works. Arhioath. with Messrs. Alexander Shanks ék Sons. (m the completion of his iiidentutes he ob- tained an appointment in the British India Steam Xangation Company's

service, and served the Companv at sea for a number of years. He res’igned the Company's service in the year 1M: and jot-ed tho ﬁrm at john King t\' (0.. Engineen, Cal- .ntta‘ Jl‘ an A‘sistatit Engineer.

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Mr. Reid remained with this ﬁrm till the year toot when he resigned tor thi- purpose oi taking up his pres- ent appointment With the I-Iooghly Docking and Engineering Company. Ltd. The latter concern is a limited liability company. formed in the year too! to acquire and carry on the works andhusiness formeer the o- perty of Mr. H. C. Mnllielt. Since the cunvcrsion the business has made very rapid strides and from being in a small way when taken over. the Wuth have grown to lie capable at work til the most Iormidable charac- ter. as was shown when the contract of repairing the Zulu. one of the large steamers belonging to tho Buckhall Steamship Company. was undertaken and successlullv carried out. Mr. Reid is a member of the Institute of Engineers and Ship Builders of Scotland, and holds the Board of Trade certiﬁcate as Chief Engineer.

Messrs. ROGERS & Co., Aerated Water Manufacturers, Bombav. It is hard for the yo er generation to imagine what life in India. was like without aerated drinla. Yet in the days before Bombay had its present tine water-supply our