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Show BUSINESS IN MEXICO. It is Good and the Country Has Seen a Year( of I'rnsnri(y. Nj8W Yokk, Jan. 15 A City of Mexico special says the annual meeting of the Bank of London and Mexico was held yesterday. Preident Brannltl congratulated the shareholders share-holders on the banks having earned a divi. dend ot 30 per cent besides putting iMOO.WO into the reserve fund. The capital has been doubled making it $8,000,000. The earnings for the past year on 1,500,000 capital were 41' per cent. President Brannlff said that business throughout Mexico was good and the bank had shared in the general prosperity of the countr, . which had been stimulated by the wise and powerful administration ofPr'csi. dent, Diaz. The shar. holders had shown their confidence in the bank by themselves taking the whole of the new capital required by the growing needs of the country. Branniff in his speech deprecated sensational sensa-tional reports concerning the business and condition of Mexico published in foreign journals; there was no foundation for alarm iu the reports. Mexico has been, and is, prosperous. The statements seut abroad regarding the failure of crops are very, I largely exaggerated. |