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INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED

WING to Alterations and Repairs at the Power Station the SUPPLE: OF ELECTRICITY will be SHUTOFF en SUNDAY, the sath inst, from 7 A.M. 30 1 PM.

"QIBB LIVINGSTON & CO,

Agents. Hongkong, Nov. 91, 1913. -

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THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER

COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Share- holders will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. Georgo's Building S No. 6. Connaught Road, Victoria, on DAY, the 28th day of November, 1918, at 11.33 ... for the purpose of receiving A Statement of Accounts and Report of the General Managers for the your 31 July, 1918, and glecting a ending Committee and Auditors..

The the Company will be CLOSED from 23rd to garh of November, 1919, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managers. Hongkong, Nov. 19, 1918,

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, *LIMITED.

NOTICE

REGRADING OF LINE AT DEPRESSORS,

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TT will be necessary to bring into Bae the TEMPORARY TERMINAL STATIONS on SUNDAY, the int DECEMBER and on Thut Day the UPPER And LOWER TERMINI BARKER ROAD and KENNEDY ROAD STATIONS WILL BE CLOSED TO TRAFFIC.

TOLLS

An Allowance of 20% will be made on all Tickets (dog tickets and charges for goods excepted) for such time as the Cars are ruaning the shortened distance..

** SEARON TICKETS.

These will be charged at usual rates. The allowance of 90% will be made at be EXPIRATION of the period for which the Ticket was issued.

PUNCH TICKETS.

Special Punch Tickets at reduced

INTIMATIONS

ITALIAN CONVENT.

BAZAAR

ON

SATURDAY, 23rd Nov., 1918, and the following day, Commencing each day at 10 m Xhe

Jushions And Paper-racks with Allied Emblems Tricolor Seneyes and Eags, Ladies" Dresses, Children Frocks, Table Covers, Handkerchiefs, Boys' Tanio and Sailor Saits, and Jerseys, in a largo variety of style.

A-Na ticket can be exchanged for Souvenir if presented after 84th Novem- ber, 1918, when the Bazaar will be closed.

"LUCKY WELL" OF TOYS !

'CHILDREN'S STALL OF XMAS Sweets TOYS, DOLLS, BALLS, Etc. and Confectionery of every description.

Ladies and Gentlemen cordially invited. All Children welcomed.

Hongkong, Nov. 20; 1919.

BANK HOLIDAY...

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TN accordance with Ordinance No.

of 1012, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Puatic Brass on MONDAY, the 25th instant.

Bongkuox, Nov. 21, 1018.

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED..

NOTICE.

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TN View of the Celebrations taking

place on "Heather Day" and Fair November 29th and 30th the CLOSING of the Upper and Lower termini and two intermediate Stations has been POSTPONED from Tuesday 26th November to SUNDAY 1st DECEN.. BER.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General ManagETI.. Hongkong, Nov. 21, 1918,

ST. ANDREW'S FAIR.

$51

rates will be issued. Old Punch Tickets ABOUT 40 MASHIES & PUTTERS will be required for the Golf

may be held over until the Cars and Course in the Fair Grounds on the eith running the fall distance or if returned. nad 30th instant. Thinse who would be

the Company's Office & pro rita refond, will be made for the anusel good enough to lend their Clubs to portion.

Every effort will be made to complete the work as soon as possible in order to minimise. the inconvenienes to residents of the Peak and Upper Levels.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers,

937.

Hongkong, Nov. 18, 1918.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

'CHEESE !

CHEESE!!

CHEESE!!! Adda variety to your diet and is Healthifal Food. American Cheese. Cottage Cheese. Franch

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extend over the two days. will have ther returned to any Course for play on Sanday if required; if lenders would kindly label their Clubs the Committee of the Golf Section will take cars the same are returned to their respectivo owners without fail.

ARCH, RITCHIE,

•Convener.

Hongkong, Nov. 21, 1918.

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WILL THE LADIES who have so generously donated articles to th above Stall at the Fair, kindly send their Gifts to the following conveners on or before,November 28th- Mrs. SUTHERLAND... Penk District Mrs. MILROY.West Point. Mrs. BuAW... East Fotht Mrs. TEMPLETON,...Quarry Bay, Madamas BLACK

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ideal conditions. there is a natural ten-¡ will have to boy what is provided for dency for things to take the right course. them and to make only those things which are necessary. He admits that Naburo has an excorren Wi aging her affairs." But ideal conditions are hard to come by. If men were angels, laissez fire would be the best policy: bat mea are not angels, there have the best polica."

critical of bureaucracy. He would like to see the unhindered brains of the buman race freely working out their own salvation. But that is impossible. Until there is once more a sufficiency of food

No one is so foolish as to think that fore the policeman. The freest people and raw materials, we must all submit

social reform can be had without paying for" it ; bat a considerable number of social reformers appear to believe that society ona undergo a radical reconstrue tion without a basis of great industrial prosperity.

It is important, then, that democracy should cultivate some clear thinking on this matter, and should argue itself into the only logical conclusion which can serve its purpose, namely, that the part

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to the control of the State. “ He points out that with ample probe says. "nay not work well, duction, the laws of supply and demand ing else would work forribly IIL" may be safely left to regulate prices; His message to British democracy may but without ample supplies nothing be summarised in this form for at lesat could be more disastrous than the two years after war wo must, practise a unshocked working of those Jaws rigid self-denial, and with our Suppose the price of sugar had been might to increase production; beyond left to the demands of the public, what seeing that wages are kept up to moot" would have been the price to-day? the increased cost of living, we inst Probably at least 3a. a pound; and even exercise patience in the matter of social comfortable glasses from buying it; but to human needs, thes we should do well that price would not have stopped the reform, and when supplies are adequate what about the working man 1"

to return sa anon as possible to the fall new kind of Protection. The old ides isboured to secure for a hundred and We are being forced, he says, into industrial freedom which our fathers

years.

noant question for the State after the of the Frotectionist was to prevent prices Professor is eager for great furida

ere,

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war will be the question of trade and going too low. The new idea of The All perishable good should be sent KING EDWARD HOTEL direct on the Scottish Women's Stall ni industry. Are we to ensura employ Protection is to prevent prices going too mental political reforms and wonders at high. This form of Protection has the folly which oppose itself to these the Fair Ground early on the morning | ment by means of a tariff barrier, or to come to away for some years.

essential changes in per social order. of November 20th.

ensure a supply of raw materials by the

But he believed that man should be left. [915'

magnet of Freerado 1 Faced with

We are face to face with an economic with nature to work his way to such the tremendous problem of finding work fact which drives as out our old millenium as may be possible. for all our people when the artificial positions, whether wo are Tariff Reforme ,or. Free, Traders. We are face to face demands of war suddenly collapse, what with dearth. Thers-is neither food nor

I note, says a writer in the economic policy are we to pursue, a raw materials sufficient for the needs of policy which will not only provide work the human tane. Left to themselves, the Bangkok Daily Mail, that there is much. laws of supply and demand would work talk about Germany being made to for British democracy, but work do pro-in only one direction-world-wide stamp-up all the Allied Icases. It she present my little bill I haven't quite To save the human race from is I shall be glad to hear it and also to

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Increased post of living Amount spent on Red Cross stunts"

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