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TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that in Acordance with REGULATIONS, published under GovrayMENT NOTI İCATION NO. 814 of 23rd November 1917, commencing, from 1st January next, all PRIVATE RICKSHAN have to be LICENSED at an Annual License Fee of $10, payable in advance.
Ricksha-drivers have to be Licensed at a Feo of 30 cents half yearly..
C. McL MESSER, ·
Captain Superintendent of Police.
Hongkong. Dec. 17, 1917.
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TEA DANOES.
TYELE MANAGEMENT beg to arounce that in fature the OHARGE FUR TEA INCLUDING THE PRIVELEGE OF DANCING will be $1 per head: 25% of which anim will be donated by the Hotel Company to War Charities.
J. R. TAGGART,
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Hongkong, Dec. 18, 1917.
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PUBLIC WORKS "DEPARTMENT.
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HEREBY NOTIFIED that on
Ithe 8th January proximo, at. 3. p.m., at the Public Works Department," sod before a Committee presided by the Director of the Public Works, TENDERS will be received for the SUPPLY AND LAYING OF PIPES for Canalisation
of Salt Water (Extension)
The conditions of the tendering, the specifications and then pleas of the canalization are open to the public ag the Public Works Department and in the Portuguese Consulate in Hongkong. where they can be examined all week days.
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Hacks Pablic Works Department, 18th December, 1917.
RAUL M. DE FARIA Z MARIA,
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Bourkons, Dec. 21, 1915.
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LONDON, October 25. .
LABOUR AMBITIONS. ........
It has been clear, ever since Mr. Arthur Henderson broke with the Cabinet, that the Labour Party had ambitions to dominate the political situation after the war. There is no guinsaying that the outstanding effect
It' is
and others of equal prominence. In efforts to get peace on terms favour East Islington their candidate, a good able to herself, while Austria and fighter too, Mr. E. B. Barnard, only Turkey, are sick of the war. got 513 votes, with the Coalition believed here that Germany's aim is endidate, Mr. Smallwood, away over peace on the basis of the abandon- 2,000, and Pemberton Billing's tame ment of all territories occupied in the candidate. Mr. Baker, about 1,500 West, provided some scope is granted behind The ery of the electors was to our foe to expand in the Near East. for prisals, but that did not lead It is a clever move, for since the them to clasp the Billing type of collapse of Russia, the Powers, apart politician to their bosoms, in spite of from England, are not much inter- that, worthy's megaphonic screechingested in the regions east of Mon- for aerial activity. Taking into tenegro and the Hun is calculating account the fact that Islington ha war weariness. But there is at suffered as much as any part from present great cordiality between the air raids, the election shows that Allice, so the intriguing Hun will be people are not to be rushed out of disappointed. No peace with the their accustomed metbed of regard.Hohenzollerna continues to be the of the Wez has been to give ing politics; and the new nationale watchword. I do not personally demordey u fuller notion of its and vigilantes bave yet to show potential powers, and to make all their worth before they can gain the monarchs feel uneasy on
confidence of the majority. their thrones. We have had the Tsar and King Tino dismissed, and the King. of Spain is norie too secure in his
A well-informed correspondent place. So the Labour politicians writes: Apart from the strikes in think they see their chance. They seriously with the movement of ships, Australian waters that are interfering expect that the soldiers will come the shortage of ocean carriers is being back with new ideas of social races, acutely felt, and I understand that in this fragment from a letter just What it is like at the Front is shown sities and the women will be discon enormous quantities of whert and received in England, "Noise we have tented with conditions as they were wealth. There is much bitter-com had wallowed fa; but the mire now wool are now stored in the Common grown used to; mud we thought we before the war opened up new plaint about the use to which the baffles belief. opportunities to them. As wen vessels bought by Mr. Hughes duroruudable enemy than the foe, and are to vote under the new franchise ing his visit to London last year are one of the problems it presents is reform law there will be this double being put. It was understood and the difficulty of recovering our it was, indeed, a condition of both wounded. That men should be hit field of new recruits for the Labour their purchase and their transfer to is a natural part of the war, but it forces. So now it is proposed to another registry-that they would be in not expected that s wounded man organise the Labour Party on a dust kept running between the Com-should sink where he has fallen and basia-first, as national trade union Europe, but it is known that which sometimes is nearly up to his monwealth and Allied Ports in have to be dug out of the mud,
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It is a far more:
societies, for the regulation of indus most of them are employed in shoulders, before he can be brought
suid to have ambitions to be the new
trial matters, and secondly, in the the Indian and American trades in. My memory of the war will be constituencies, for the domination of at freights above Bhie Book rates, guns and horribly insecure ground politics. Mr. Arthur Henderson is In South Africa, too, there is trouble A gale for a week would, in fact, over the shipment of goods overseas, do a double good, for it would dy between the Imperial authorities and the advantages to the foe of the prople of cool beads and little the farmers for the purchase of the Hunters Moon. sympathy with the movement who 1917-18 wool clip, it is believed that are ready to concede that the scheme much of it will have to be kept at may succeed. In the constituencies Union ports. In view, however, of all the men and women who are in the increasing military demands, the favour of the Labour programme will Army Council, I fear, is anxious to be eligible for enrolment. They accumulate a large reserve of wool declare the aim is to organise all the in the United Kingdom S8 Boot 18 producers of the country, whether by possible to meet all contingencies, hand or brain, regardless of class or and although stocks in hand are occupation.
Labour Premier, and there are many and even if negotiations are concluded the ground at and destroy
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Aufficient for present purpose, To what extent the Bamsay: Mac-likely that a great effort will be donald element will inse influence in to provide the necessary's the new order of things, cannot be foreseen, but I think myself they will be restrained, and there need not be any grave misgivings about the developments if such men oe Gear Baines and John Hodge have a guid. ing voice in the policies There can be no doubt that actual responsibility in office, calms klown the Rideat Independent
In regard to the wool demand. I may add that civilian requirements are likely to be still further restricted, for England is to make the cloth and the unifouns for the An
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