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 party, the purchase being attended )3: no increase ol (’apital. The Hund-in-Hand was the oldest Fire office in the world. dating hack to that). whilst even its imithlul Lite department cummt'ttred open ationa in 1830i. and "10114! by ll: amalgamation with its latter day Conteinimmryz its time-honoured mime will disappear at a separate institution. the partnership ihu» entered into Will (I‘lllllllt‘islV prun- a profitable one It) all (unturned, That the Cotnmercul l'iiinn Assur- aiice Company Is a pmgn-ssm one. the report published liy the Dirceiora for 11.04 amply bears out, as in all tour at its depart- ments the amount 0! the hind: have been largely "th03th utter duly providing lor all Coﬂllnﬂt'IlCIt'.‘ likely to arise. and the year':

working showed the substantial underwriting profit amounting to almost [500,000. The share-

holders ol the (‘ommercial l‘tiion have lot some time past been en- joying a 40 per cent dividend. and tor the year 1904. even thu liberal return was exceeded, the dividend for that year being 45 per cent.

Mr. DAN CURRIE was born in Band, Scotland, in I85}, and {or six years studied law in Elgin and Edin-

burgh heft-n: setting out for India. where he ain't-ed in i874 and joian the firm at Menu. Macneill & (‘n. in Calcutta. with whom after 1: year.‘

THE CYCLUPEIHA Ul’ u-n‘ice he uh made a parlle in the bustﬂt‘xk. He hat hail mun: than 30 pean' Cttkflttttc of Indian Engine“ cuttililiims and i~ a man whose opiniun rarrim great weight in the Commercial trnrld. He has performed useful puhIir wn'in- ion the l'alt‘utta I’urt Commis- ~inn. and ill: (\‘R’CLHI‘V identiﬁed ltimwll with the withing of the Jellitw and Whnnm and the marugcrnent of the Financt and listahlishincnt (fumimttcni. He has been an EIL'IlVL‘ “mill-Cf "I Committee of the Bengal ( hanilrr uft‘unimerce, and hlx ctk'fg) and wide IIU\lIIt'\.‘ experience hate iniiile his satires imrtirularly \‘JIIIJIDICV lli‘ man) husinexs Connectinm with the tea industry have '11! In hi\ intttcal- tug himwlf in the development ml the in trade. Sin-2e i903 he ha~ acted a~ a member of the Indian 'l'ea ("cw (‘nmmitteu 'I'he t'nniniitiee haw: done ru‘ellent work iti dct‘clupv tug new markets. and the tutun: lmWﬂlu" a wider field for r:\pluit'.t- tiutt 'l‘ltr: tlct'clnptng and fostering of the demand for tea in America and uh the (’imtinent is being taken energetimlly in hand. and in this Wily the planter will be relieved of the evmtinual fear of owrprnduv tion. The bu‘ittcxs men who hate the matter in hand are well equipped for the work. and the results that hate followed discriminating expenditure on: hopeful.

The had years of overpmduction and ronsequcnt hardship among the planting community taught a lesson that it being tigorumzly applied. The impmitii-n of .1 tax of too per (cltl b) the Home (internment on tea has hardened the trail“: to thoroughly exploit foreign marlieb'- .\Ir. Curries busines‘ ability has prmetl of great white to the (‘en ('utnrnittce.

WALTER NEVI'Z CRERMVELI. 6r (‘0. Mereliiints and Commission Agents. Elpliinstone ('irrle. Bum. hay. are manufacturers ul Aluminium Ware at Byrulla and all kinds 0! metal hollow ware. and are also General Importers ul Continental and English-piece goods. The firm was established liv Mr. \\'. N. Crush-ell. the sole proprietor. in 188d

Mr. Perry Willi-ts (‘resswelL Mann. arr for Rummy. was hunt in Stal- Infdslllﬂ‘. England, in r87: and was educated at Brewmnl in that county. He joined the Birmingham Joint Stork ltanli in 1387. where he

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remained till t8”: and then came out to Bombay to take up his present apiuintineiit. Mr. Cresswell is a Lieutenant in the Bombay Volunteer

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Riﬂes. Mr. F. W. Cresswell fill: the mice of Assistant Manager.

Sir ERNEST CABLE, Kip-'11in history of modem Calcutta oli'crn few personalities of such interest as Sir Ernest Cable. He was born in Calcutta in “camber i859, and mu. designed for a public school education in England. Owing, howuver. to un- fortunate delicacy of health he was forced to return to India alter a stay 0! six years at home lie was then sent to a private school in Mnssoorie and graduated at the (‘alcuttii University. Ilk'll.‘ he studied With it View to enter in; the I’nhlic Works Department It was as well for the future coniiiicrciiil pnmpcrit) ol Calcutta that Mr. Ciihle decided that the strenuum mercantile career presented innrc ntttitctitms than the Public Service. He that gained it sound knowledge of blindness in the firm of Ashhurner t\' (30.. rind on the elming (if that ﬁrm he joined Messrs. hull, Rennie a: Cu. It is, however. in regard to hit connection with .‘IQ'VJS. Bird & (70., that his. name him become so well known. Bird it (h. under the management of the hits: l'aul Bird had already mixed its limit! high among the many great Calcutta Uusineu houses, and iii development of the mineral resources of Bengal had attracted marked attention. Mt.