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840 manager speaks various dialects, and the firm are constantly adding to their agencies. They are property owners, house-boat owners, &amp;c., and are always in a position to provide tourists and travellers with guides, boats, and other similar requisites. firm are the successors of the well-known firm of Russell &amp; Co., who failed in 1891. Mr. M. W. Greig was the manager of the Foochow branch of that firm at that date and only retired from business on December 31, 1907, after more than forty years of strenuous life in Foochow. The present partners are Messrs. Ronald Greig and Geo. L. Greig, brother and eldest son respectively of M. W. Greig. They carry on the business of tea merchants, camphor exporters, and oil importers. They are agents, also, for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and allied companies; the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, Ltd.; the Shire Line of steamers; the Royal Insurance Company. Ltd., of Liverpool; and the well-known Yangtsze Insurance Association, which was organised by Russell &amp; Co. Mr. Ronald Greig, who is in charge of the business, was born in Hants in 1854. He came to China in 1876, and was with Deacon &amp; Co., of Canton, for eleven years. Afterwards he left for Canada, but in 1896 returned to take up his present responsibilities. firm, known formerly as Siemssen &amp; Co., have a variety of interests under their control. They export large quantities of tea and carry on a general agency business, representing, among other important undertakings, the Norddeutscher Lloyd and the Hamburg-Amerika lines. A saw-mill and feather-cleaning works are operated by them. The head of the firm, Mr. G. Siemssen, is Consul for Germany and Vice-Consul for Sweden. firm, originally Adamson, Bell &amp; Co., was taken over in 1891 by Dodwell, Carlill &amp; Co., and it is only since 1901 that the business has been conducted under its present name. The Company are the largest tea exporters in Foochow, and are now interesting themselves in camphor. They are agents of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, Ltd.; the Asiatic Petroleum Company, Ltd.; the Messageries Maritimes; and the principal shipping lines to America, and a number of other important undertakings.