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PITMAN'S 'SHORTHAND CLASSES. NEW term for Shorthand Classes begins on the 2nd January, 1918. Private classes held in the morning. For particulars apply at the Convent. Hongkong, Dec. 23, 1917.
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FAIR
Kowloon Cricket Club Ground.
NEW YEAR DAY,
1st January, 1818.
WONDERFUL "ATTRACTIONS.
From 3 P.x. to 11.30
Late Ferrics and Peak Trans.
Hongkong, Dec. 97, 1917
$123
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
NOTIFICATION. ...
HEREBY NOTIFIED that on I the 8th January, proxime, at 3 pm.
at the Public Works Department, and before a Committee presided by the Director of the Public Works, TENDERS will be received for the SUPPLY AND LAFING PIPES for Canalization
Salt Water (Extension)
The conditions of the tendering, the specifications and the plans of the -canalization are open to the public at
the Public Works Department and in the Portuguese Consulate in Hongkong, where they can be examined, all week days.
Macao Public Worki Departmen 18th December, 1977-
RAUL M. DE FARTA I MARIA,
Engineer Director.
Hongkong, Dec. 21, 1917.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
BEFORE PURCHASING ELEC- TRICAL APPLIANCES for use in connection with the Company's supply, Consumers als recommended to com- municate with the Undersigned with a view to ascertaining :—
1. If the Appliances, and their use, are in accordance with the Com pany's Regulations.
2. If the Wiring of the premises where it is intended to instal such Appliances is suitable.
It is important that the foregoing information should be obtained from the Company, not only does the negleet to do so endanger property by fre but in addition may lead to a con- travention of the Ordinance.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, Dec. 35, 1917.
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SCOTTISH LETTER
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(From Our Own" Correspondent.)
plants which occur on deep moorland defence and they generally occupy strategic can be traced, but, in Scotland at any high sites of considerable rate, sphagnum is always the main importance. They are, to some extent The taxes are element Sphagnum is pre-eminently Government agencies. fitted to act as a past former: it has the often collected at the mission stations. power of constantly throwing up dense In any rebellion, the missioca stand for cushions of new shoots, while the parts the Government? below die. These parts, partly because they never become dry, do not decay in The comradeship between the Aus- the ordinary sense of the word. Taus
Edinburgh, November . SCOTS AND AUSTRALIANS.
year after year the growing sphagnum
GETTING ROUND IT.
A doctor friend of mine whose relaxation is golf, and who plays twice tralians and the Scota is now matter
is accumulating below it all the growth week on an outlying coume, was 2300 of common knowledge, and, farther of the past, which, as it sinks in upon saddened by the thought that, under testimony to its strength and good itself, becomes an almost solid mass of the petrol regulations, he would not be effect is given by Sir Andrew Fraser, bonaceous matter. Both sphagnam and permitted to use his car to travel to and the High Commissioner The Austral peat possess certain antisceptic pro from the club-house. The dread of perties-hance the use of sphagnum for facing a policeman and framing an inns in France, he says, have to a large wounds. These aasist in the formation excuse was too much for him. In extent been associated with Scottish of the peat, since they discourage or happy moment, however, he discovered battalions, and the universal experience altogether forbid the activity of the that the clubmaster is a rheumatic is that they have got on well together. microbes which in other soils completely subject, and all is well. The club break up the dead vegetable matter. master, by the way, has now fres medical advice from about half-a-dozen The Scottish type, it, seems, with its subtle humour and metaphysical TONNAGE TROUBLES IN DUTCH INDIES.
medical men." predilections, appeals strongly to the Australians, who, on their part, are agile and witty. The Australians and
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SENTIMENT AND A PROMISE.
1
The dwindling amount of tonnage available for shipments from the Dutch Indies to Europe and the shortage of coal are giving rise to serious anxiety. Scots, in fact, are complimentary to for the future, mys the "Glasgow each other. "In Sir Andrew's opinion Herald." In 1916 the Batavia Freight the spontaneous display of friendship Conference appointed 121 ships with may also in some measure be traced to total of 364,000 tons of cargo space for
the shipment of exports to Europe, and perind them followed a French girl, tradition and common origin, for a in the first half of 1917 not quite 15 accompanied by a Belgian soldier. very large proportion of the settlers in ships with a total of 44,000 tons. The Suddenly she disengaged her arm from Australia come from Scotland. The homeNetherlands Steamship Company, the her companion's and, running forward, country, in the minds of the older settlers, Rotterdam Lloyd, and the Holland touched the funiq of the rearmost Tom-
A party of war-stained heroes w tramping out of Victoria Station lookin with curious eyes on the old familiar aights.
is idealised after years of separation, and America Line gays 'in 1916 13 ships on 'sies, she said, "but would
pictured with a kind of halo to the members of their families.
PEAT AND SPHAGNUM MONS. The other day I found a quantity
Tz. 1322 peat in my fire, and was told that the coal merchants Have supplies of the substance
carrying a total of 51,500 lasta for the Java-New York services, but as a result you mind that I scrape a piece theearth from your knapsack !? of of of the requisitioning of ships by the
The big soldier
brought his left beel Dutch and British Governments and
a click, his face beaming in a with a ор the laying up of tonnage there has been mixed
mixed expression of wonder and humour: he replied, gallantly, “as far a considerable deficiency this year, and
as I am concerned, you are welcome to for next year the prospects are even worse. So long as the war lasts there the whole jolly lott
"I only wish for a tiny piece, the ex- is not expected to be any imrement plained, picking off a small chunk of
earth and water.
من
BUROPEAN AGENCY and are selling it. Peat is not brought in the situation, and therefore some oagulate the continued, producing a
in because coal is actually scarce, but measures have to be taken for meeting You see," WHO EBALE Indents promptly because it makes a fire last longer. the difficulty. These will inelade little purse, and depositing her treasure executed at lowest cash prices That peat has a lasting quality is well reduction of the next crop of export within the middle compartment.it is or all British and Continental goods, naluding
known to all who are in the habit of products, the granting of credit to so long time, since I left my beloved native growers, and closer co-operation country, and now whenever I feel Bo just, take a peep-and using it as fuel, but I fear that this between the Home And Colonial lonely-1 can
thank you. experience will not be borne out in the Governments.
And Tommy added without a moment's hesitation We'll win you more than average town household. For the
that before we've Hnished, Misa and townaman demands that his fire should
don't you forget it.”
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Day Goods and Perfumery, Hardware, Machinery and Metale, Jewellery, Plate and Watches, M "totogaphio and Optics) Goods, revisions and Oilmen's Stores,
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WHERE MISSIONS ARE FORTRESSES.
Dealing with the German mistions, in burn briskly, and he is apt to pay it. Esat. Africa, the Rev. J. Hutchison great deal of stimulating attention, and Cockburn, Glasgow, make some agni that is just what no pest will stand It ficant revelation in the November issue must to treated very gently indeed, and of Life and Work, the magazine of leit much to itself. In that event it will the Church of Scotland. The stations glow for an astonishingly long time, well built," he says; some of thera But if it is subjected to the poker it realmest fortresses; they are made for
may burn with great energy and speed for a few minutes, or it may fall into powder and refuse to burn at all
The appearance of past on the war economy list is an interesti fact, for
HER EYES AND
COMPLEXION
the pare of pest in already doing should add to every woman's charm.
serv
Pinkettes clear the skin of pimples and
That is bitches, dipol Constipation Blous
andi poe Sick Headaches, ill-smelling breathe A Scotland Give the bright eye of health
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