CHRISTMAS IN LONDON.
"WE MUST NOT BLUSH UNSEEN."
A
600 MILES TOY BILL TO ATTRACT VISITORS supplled by Importers, and the Chambar
TRAINS.
THE BIG SHOPS A BLAZE OF
CHRISTMAS REVELRY. Among the distinguished visitors who have already arrived in town for Christinas is-Father Christmas, He comes but once a year, but, egad! (as the old gentleman is fond of exclaiming) he makes a long stay of it l The West End stores, of courte, are his chief haunt.
FROM ABROAD.^
The House of Commons has taken the view that Great Britain is the best spot in the world to live in, and M.P's backed their judgmont by giving a second reading to a Bill which will permit local authori- is to spend up to one-halfpenny of the lol rates in advertising the beauties of Britain to the world at large.
Major Salmon, author of this Como to Britain Bill, quoted figures,
We hnd 457,000 foreign visitors to these shores last year, France, on the other hand, had 1,800,000. France, Germany, and the Unite Sintes, he added, apont large sume in attracting tourists to see their beauties.
He has opened his Christmas Fairs everywhere. Kensington, Ox- 'ford Street, Holborn, Bayswater, Piccadilly-the big shops have all burst into ailaze of Christmas revelry. Giant figures of Father Christmas himself open huge, red. overcoated arms of welcome. Ar. rows as thick as drain-pipes point.
"We cannot afford to blush un- the way into palaces of juvenile
said Major Salmon, seen. delight. Monstrous. characters froin
Mr. Rhys Davies said it was time fairyland sport in "bright electric we told the world what there is to outfiars neruss the facades. Walk be seen here, and he spoke glibly -up!
Christmas has of the glories of Oxford, Cam- begun i
bridge, and of Manchester, at which some M.P.'s laughed.
Walk. in!
•
How jelly it all is for the youngs,
ters!
Bir Donald Mingdenn, a Scotsman whom politics has associated with Every afternoon now one may find the Cornish Riviera, cordially wel them crowded in the Christmas comed the Bill for the Liberals, and Fairs, excited up to the eyebrows, now it only needed Miss Susan at the sight of toya resembling the Lawrence, Under Secretary for. sands of the sea in multitude and & Health, to add the blessing of the fairy's dream in variety of beauty Government.
and astonishment. Is there anyone. -anywhere-ever-ao happy
child in a modern Toy Fair?
He should be happy, of course, for is he not emperor there of the gayest empire imaginable? Every art and every science is at his ser vice.
She gave it handsomely.
"Thin," she said, "is the most agreeable country in the world. If foreigners only knew how nice it is they would look here in thousands and spend thier money with both handa "
i Commander Southby was disposed to oppose the Bill in fear that our island quiet and tranquillity might be disturbed by the incursion of thousands of foreignors.
What magnificent dolls they put before the little girls nowadays! There is one West End store where the dolls are perched on a minia- ture roundabout that. revolves to the elfin melodies of a musical-box, He sits for Epsom, and it wat and they are so lovely in their pointed out to him that, represent ashes and bows and dimity as they ing as he did an aEglish town go whirling round that the little known all over the world, it wa girls who stand by looking at them rather churlish to oppose such a almost cry with joy. Then the toy Bill Commander Southby there animals! They are clothed in all upon struck his colours, and the
without colours of fur, silkier than any kit. Bill went through ten to the touch, and able to mew division. and grant and bark and quack much better than their dull originals, The most amiable Zog ever got to- gether. The very big ones-some of them railed off within enclosures, so they surely must be dangerous→→ flash their eyes most terribly as they any Greer and wave their shaggy heads and move their power- 'fui pawe
The Mechanical Age. As for the major mechanical toys the railways and power-engines and steamboats and airplanes- they have more space thau ever devoted to their exhibition,
We elderly persons think with shame and wretchedness of "the. clockwork engines we thought such a lot of in our youth (wound up with keys that made a horrid squirching noise that set our par ents' teeth on edge, to hear it ) when we look at the marvellous railway systems in operation at all the Stores to-day.
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WEATHER REPORT.
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(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Dec. 28.
123.60)
Markot strong. Blocks low.
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£17
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#
Bars (round to 1), Angles
7.26 6.20-0.40
0.10
Roda
7.00
6.76-7.60
$115
Shoota (4' x 8' $7)
10.00
Small round rods
0.80-7.00
H
Hoops, black stoel
galvanized
9.00 18.70
ShangHat and Amur
33.91 $3,30 T.160
$3.20
JAVA 14
Java and MANILA 29.
$626
North Chinas...+1+1+99
T100
Axor and BwaATOW ...
14
Union Insurances ... $520 $520
NAIGON
ki
M.850 Yangtare Insurances
$80
$450
China Firos.......| $409-
IM
**
1
$1,215 H.K. Firos
$1,926
Shipping
***
Douglases
1301
Bteamboats ancien
$305
$40
331
Do.. (del)
Indos (praf..........
(Seattle, 13th December)
$40
$20
JAPAN
JAPAN Rod SHANGHAI
79/0
***
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Shall Transports ....
83/0
$99
Water-boats
$39
STRAITS
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B0% British. Wiro Nails, 1:3 per ploul 10.50 11.00 Galvanized corrugated shits,
21/26.4.
... per 100 lb. 240$10.50 Galvanized flat shoots, 1/22",
1/8"... ... per 100 120G11.78 Galvanized 8/32" x por lb. 15.00
British. Galv, wire, 18/23...p. lb. 18.50
LEAD
B.M., Spot
18.75
MI
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16.70
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20.00
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Langkats (comb.)...
T1440 $7,40
T.st
10,50
at
10,80
T.01
7.0
$94
14/
Continental, American I.C.W. (Spot) 20" x 14"
100 lbs., 11sheets por box...No stooks American L.C.W., Tontrive 207x149
100 lbs., 112 shoots... per box $18.00
Patroleum Products. ́
WHITE BOOK BLAND COMET BRAND) Coax
EAGLE BRAND
Do. (einglo)...
Explorations...n
Shanghai Loans Raubasztetté
Tronoh Minos
Docks, Wharyss,
Godowns, etc.
British. ...per case $5.98 8.79
$172
6.78
Do.
*ILK. & K. Wharfa... 8172 85.25 35.3 Providente (old)...
(now)
$2.55 62.60
2 tine 5.40
830
HK, Docke
***
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2.114
"
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SILVER LIGET CROWN BRAND
CROSS BRAND
LAMP GLASS...
**
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国
(Kerosene prinas advanced by 86
-$10 - South China Motors.. Shanghai Dooks .... 17.10 New Engineerings 1964 Hongkows ...........................
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***
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JAPAN
PZA
DUA
30th Deo.
BULL Deo.
3th Doo
∙Blut. Dea.
Kumors via Suaz (Lutters and papers, London, 4th Deo, and Percola, 27th November)
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Blab Dec.
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Pres, Madison
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4th Jan,
6th Jan.
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0th Jan.
10th Jan,
19th Jan,
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**
Bagus Maru Sinklang
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371
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Biraits
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***
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Amoy and Japan
9841
Helbow and Haiphong
Shanghai
Cabu
Shanghai,
HK Loads (old)... $54
Do. (new)... $83
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$12.30
H.K. & S. Hotels
bazo 11.15
*2 tina 10.90
T.329
bulk 10.40
$9.40
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5,20-8,60
8,10-8,50
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1
$17.65
9.30 & W 1080 a
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2,30
3.80 M
8.80
4.80 a 5.00
Wednesday, 31st,
New Mathilde Leesang...
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.5,00
Jason
6.90
Beg.
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Lol 1st Jan, 1831
Canada
Japan, Honolulu, U.8.A.,
Central, and Fouth
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T.
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T11.5 T11.70
Jan, 1931 and "FUROPE via Biberia j
Shai. Cottons.........
1.77
T.
Zoong Sings .........
Swatow, Amoy and Formosa
Deli Maru
per ton $18.00
Paris New York Brussela Geneva..... Amsterdam Milan Berlin
"
4.85 53/04
34.738
25.011
No. 1 Black No. 2 Slack...
Flour
·MARKET:~~~Very wook.
.11.40
Publie Utilities
Amoy
JI
Straite
Taiyuan Cremer
10.60
14
$18
Tramways...
$18
314)
Peak Trams (old)
814)
· 361
Da (DOW)...
8043
Star Ferries arisin
$941
19.03)
QUOTATIONS I
$23.10 C. Lighta
325
Manila, Habaul Australia and Now Zea land via Brisbane-dus Brisbane, 19th Jan. 1931
Bl. Albans
Hai Ning
-92.75.
$82
HK. Elootrica
883
20:391
$
Straight...
$28
Macao do,
Stockholm
18.11
Copenhagen
18.10%
Cut off Australian No. 1
Bandakan Lights...
Oslo.
18.151
Canadian Cut off
Do.
34.48
Straight...
(part pd)
$23
Mixture ...
Btraits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, Easi and South Africa, Ada, Egypt and KUROPE via Marseilles--doe Mar seilles, 30th January, 1931
Rancht
370.071
2nd Clans...
163,370
183.07
STOCK:
43.05
400,000 'bags
108,24 817
100,000
་་་
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421/30
36
525,000 bag#
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Bandrics.
$17
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$12
1/32
WINDOW GLASB-
.36.20
L
1/3h
Fair average alzon
Holiday
2/17/201 142 14 11/10
$0.80 $87
Kopes...
$11.40
China Sugara...................!
·watow, Amɑy and Formoss-
€1281
Holbow...
Swatow, Amoy and Fooshow
Vienna vai
Athena
Praguo Helsingfors Madrid Lisbon Bucharest
Rio ..... Buenos Aires Montevideo
Bombay Shanghai Hong Kong Yokohama,
One of them has sight electric trains running at once. There they go-look!-over bridges, on bankments, through tunnels and past all manner of avenery-1,200ft. of track. A switch is turned and they operate without further atten- tion, the fast long-distance flyera and the trains that stop at every station. The points at the central junction are most elaborate, but they negotiate them without a hitoh, obeying the green lights or the red as they gleam from the tall signal- posts. Six hundred miles a week-Or that is the distance covered by these Robot trains. And, so far, not a life lost.
Silver (spot) Silver (forward) ......
EXCHANGE.
'CLOSING QUOTATIONS,
December 29, 193 LoNDON:--- Telegraphic Transfor... 1/14 Bank Bills, on demand g Bank Bills, months'
sight ......... Oredita,
MAI. 4 months' sight Lego 1/2 1 16 Documents, 4 months'
sight PARIS:-
Bank Bills, on demand 690 Credits, 4 months' sight. 730
YORK:-
But bless your soul! how can the poor children see them properly with all those fathers ranked in immovable masses in the front line 1 You never (if you are a boy) saw Anything so provoking! Brought ON thore, you were, on the particular promise of a treat-to wit, the spec- tacle of this perfeclly topping rail-ON-NEW way-and then clean forgotten while Father edged and pushed his way to join that Himalayan range of grown-ups which hid the whole thing! Would they move? Not on your life! Thors they stood like ON stricken statues, garing and glaring worso than kids at a pantomime. It was enough to make a chapÜN simply loathe his people!
Ox
Bank Bills, on demand 27 1/16 Credita, 80 days' sight. 281 BoxBAYI~~~
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Bank, on demand' ... CALOUTTA:-
si
Telegraphic Transfer...ht bank, on demand
SHANGHAI -
Bank, at sight
Tla. 77 85.
On demand .................... 5dj
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On
On
MANILA-On demand... 64g Singapore : --
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Or HAIPHONO:-
· Well, well!... After that, it was hardly possible for Father to come without doing something: away handsome about a locomotive or a set of rails; so there was a silver Jining. Boja, don't be too im
patient when you see the Dad fall into a trance before one of these Or Saison:-On demand Klorious sights. He'll be easy ON BANGEDE:-- plucking soon. Give him rope, and On demand at the right moment, when he wakes SOVEREIGNS, Bank's Buying
Este... up full of remorse, ask him. What about it?
Of elaboration of existing toy favourites by increasing application
of electrical ingenuity and decora
On demand
Bar Silver, per es. ·
1611
1/13
......143.
Like arb there is no sign of an end. carnest of the muth, more powerful For even the imposing engineering playthings which the son of our plant with smoking chimney and a boys, I suppose, will be amusing
American...
Canadian...
Australian...
0.25-8.85 3.20-8.30 $22.65
8.10
8,00
1/16" thick (18 os.) per box $7.80-8.00 $11.35
17.76 1/87 " China, India and Straits Produce.
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$351 Telephones (fully pd.)
T19,60 China Bases
7/10.
Tractions man Do. (prof.)n]
Industriais
T101 Caldbeck, (ord.] Ti0.40 Macgregors (prof.)
Canton Tees
Coments (comb)... $177
Do (old)...
Do. (now)...)
$271
$25
Το
મા
$23
Java Bough White...per picul $6.90-7.86 (Boported salex 9,124 ploaie Epot.) Java Rough White...per picul 66.95-7.48
(Reported salca 87,672 picule, Arriva oz. named I stemmer.) Java Fine White... per pical $7.28-7,46 (Reported sales 1,080 picula. Spot.) Jars Hoagh Brown...par pient $8,03-0,43 (Reported sales 24,991 piouls. Spot) Java Rough Brown...per pical 86.09-0.36
(Beported astos 18,315 picula
Do,
#211
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Malabon Sugars
Miscellaneous
Dairy Farms, camL г.
Do
er rights $25 Dow 312
Der A. Wing........
Amusements ...............
Chin. Entertainm'ta. $19, Constructions....... $1.00
$3.70 Lane Crawfords ... $31,
Mackintosha.........
Nanyang Tobacco... 31
Sincare
Watsons 4- Wm. Powell
*Sandakan
8.30 A
JAN, 1931. Thursday, lat
8,80 M 9.COM 10,00 AM
Friday, 2nd,
...Bog.
||Parcela 11.00 A 2:
12.45 P |Lelters" : "1.80-P.M. "Kowloon P
Parcels 4.80 F
2.00
P.O.
| 'Beg. 3rd, 9.00 ▲ m Eefter 10.00 AM G.P.O. Par, 2nd 5.00% Reg. 3rd, 9.45 AM Lefter 10.30 A M
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'Letters 5.00
4th £,00 AM 9.00 AM
9:00 AM
9.00 A
Бітната
*
$3.80
Manila, Austrails and Now Zealand visi
Brisbane-dus Brisbane,, 18th Jan,
Brisbane Maru
·
$3.70
Manila...
Bangkok vis Bwatów
*
Kangru Kiranglung
1,00 Koselooni: P.O.
Loiters _1,00 va
Sunday,
Pra, Madison Canton Mars
Taonday,
6th,
Haishing.
Bag,
1,00
Raz
U.P.O.
1.45 M
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2.00 M
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Straits, Egypt and *EUROPE via Mar-1
sailles-dus Marseilles, 6th Feb.
$121
$4,30
Το
$10
arrivo ex. pamed steamer.) Java Molasses... per picul $6.08-0.43
(Reported salos 9,823 plouis, Spot) $12.40
$13
12.40
Manila
$12.50
70%
$1.85
prem.6%
B. Ind. G. Bonds... H.K. Gort. Loans .....]
711%
$100
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