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OVERLAND 1914 MODEL.
Overland Model 69 F
ELECTRIC LIGHT & STARTERS.
-Price $1,600 Hongkong Currency.
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CONTEMPORARIES.
South China Morning lust,
The Business Outlook. It was reported by Chinese in the colony yesterday that newebad been received of the financial col- lapse of six mills and two bankain Bangkok A large Chinese bar- iness concern in Honghong way also stated to be in difficulties,
WE HAVE RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS TO SELLÄ IMMEDIATELY, AT and various other ramonreitended
PRICES BELOW FACTORY COST 200 GENTLEMEN'S READY TO WEAR
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to disturb commercial circles. The effeot pt the closing down of the Singapore merchanta Loh Keo Seng and Lob Ches Seng was un- doubtedly far reaching as credit- ora were found to be many and the Hongkong and Shanghai, the International, the Mercantile, Net- | hérlands Indies, Commercial and the Indo-Chins Banks all repre- sented creditors, "Add to this the shakiness induced by the suspens sion of the Indian Specie Bank, and the generally delicate posit ion of finance in Indian sommer- oisl contres, and rumours such as were in circulation yesterday may do not a little har
Daily
China's : Political: Sub-Divisions. The division, ssy, of ulwadge tang into four or five?sprefec tures" (for apparently it is not proposed to retain the olf prefer tures). would do nothing to counternot the centrifugal forces, for these prefectures would always tend to group themselves together for common satión as the representative of the former Kwangtung. On the other hand, if three or four provinces were to be grouped together as a fer- ritory," they might, if sympathetic. with each other, easily prove too for the „strong nag papabigation....
Central Government to control, while if the idea is, to apllify a strong independent province by grouping it with two or three dependent ones, the old provin dial demarcations, would, at once reassert themselves.
also the question of the Assemblies. If these are to have a place in the new order of
nge, there would be the danger, if the unit were too large, that they would be powerful enough to become independent, while if the unit were too small, they would be so numerous, as to be costly absurdities. We do not urge thats the división into 22 provinced 18 the last word in political, wi -it might indeed be an adv Pge if the number con
THAT IS TAKING slightly reduced by amalgerasting
BEER THAT IS
THE BEER
HONGKONG BY STORM.
SAN MIGUEL DRAUGHT
& BOTTLED BEER.
́inį somo, cases two provinces (an Yunnan and Kneighqu) that were formerly under the same. Viceroy
but the slight advantages to be gained by a change are far out- weighed by the dangers that such n change would involve.
Chiria Mail.
The Industrial Upheavals. As it is indubitable that the progress of the country is being
Our Bottled Beer is acknowledged impeded by such industrial up-
to be Par Excellence, ONCE DRUNK ALWAYS
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heavals, it is surely time that the Government moved more effectus- ly towards the discovery of a solation or at least a palliative
that might tend to produce a
Happier state of affaitu:) Compul- sory arbitration seems to us to meet the case, and why it has not been adorted in England, as it had been in Australia and New Zealand, seems to me to vibe an
Telephone No. 1463 - absurd anomaly in a country that prides itselfuppon vita1 prsotipal ways. It is intolerable that in- dustrial upheavals should be of such frequent recurrence (and, therefore, the sooner the better for all concerned will it be when the representatives of the State, quietly yet firmly, take upon their paternal shoulders the burden of deciding between the contending parties and better still, of bringing" when necessary, all the power of the State to their age sistance in seeing that their de- cisions are effectively carried out.
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