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WATSON'S

Celebrated

DRY GINGER ALE

Ita utique "dryness, delightful aroma and rich flavour are features which give this beverage the IMMENSE POPULARITZ it deserves.

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It has been repeatedly declared by travellers, tourists and others, that WATSON'S DRY GINGER ALE is UNEQUALLED by any similar product throughout the World.

A. S WATSON & CO. LTD.

AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.

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Phone O. 4678..

CHILDREN'S WEAR

Ltd

DEPARTMENT.

THIS SECTION OF OUR STORE IS NOW SHOWING A VERY CHOICE SELECTION OF NEW GOODS FOR CHILDREN FROM INFANCY UPWARDS.

The Prices are "most moderate "

AND

You are cordially invited to call and see our stock.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

IS

Good news to those who like a piece of REALLY GOOD CHEESE

Finest Selected Blue Gorgonzola...$1.10 per lb.---

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11

(Italian) Stilton

(English)

$1.20

$1,50

Gruyere (Swiss)

Only a limited quantity of all three varieties in stock-

order a piece of your favourite now.

The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.

Dive COLGATE'S Ribbon Dental Cream and Handy Grip Shaving Sticke

SOLE AGENTS:

The Hongkong Trading Co. Ltd.

HONGKONG.

THE SOUTH CHINA KNITTING FACTORY

COTTON SOCKS

of all sizes, colours qualities.

ENQUIRIES SOLICITED,

Shan Tung Street, Mongkok, Kowloon, Tel. Address: "SOUCHIENIT" Phone K. 893.

THE CHE

TO REMIND YOU

great names here mentio lusively for the Victor Oo,

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Records of the world's greatest are on our shelves.

Ask for catalogue..

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SATURDAY

SPECIAL SALE SWEETS, CHOCOLATES

AND

BISCUITS.

20% DIS. ONE DAY ONLY

DON T

MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY

AT

MORINAGA CANDY STORE,

A. P. C. BUILDING.

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COMRADE 6 DEATH.

"Üverw.zedloz

an Indian and

constabi

and other CHEL

of England z

supe

ourb the uctivities of forest thieves still lingeri One of the most com

first celebrated but the day was

uently altered to the 1st

which was thence under the feast of All ses apart as a general

led, tu what Mr. Whyte Smithmon in what of diving for apples, or Commemoration in their hongur, Crown solicitor, termed the com of catching at them with the month The festival has been retained by

the Anglican Church: mitting of a very foolish sotion only, the hands being tied behind, They left another Indian constable and the apples suspended on You? who was with them in charge of end of a long transveres, beam, at prisoner they had already captured the other extremity of which is NUTCRACK NIGHT. beliefs and set off in pursuit of others fixed lighted candlu. The fruit];

Many quaint

stil

linger in re- When the two constables return and nuté form the most prominent mote country districts. Most of ed they found that the revolver of parts of the evening feast, and these have to do with love, court- their comrade had boon taken from from this circumstance the nightship, and marriage, as, for exam- his holster and was lying 40 yazdane been termed Nutcrack Night, along the forestry path. The con- stable was lying face downward

ple, the one which decrees the roasting of chestnuts on the bars of the grate in order to find out if

In Notinghamshire, if a girl's lover is true or false. with face and abdomen wounds ELSEWHERE. a girl had two lovers, Because of this the anniversary is which proved fatal and the erst |

and wished to know known as "Nutcrack Night" in while prisoner, was nowhere to be which would be the most constant, the North of England If the she procured two brown apple nuts crack or jump it is a bad pippina, and sticking one on each omen. The loved one is faithless. cheek (after having named then But if they burn clearly and from her lovers) while she repeated steadily, without spluttering, the

lady need have no qualms. this couplet

The murdered omstable was of poor physique whilst the man the constables had left in his charge was a much stronger mun, comment ed Mr. Whyte Smith. The ́ ́ res when volver of the deceased mur found had had three rounde dis charged.

"Pippen, pippen, I stick thee therd

Two Frogs in the That that is true thou mayA FABLE belly of a snake were declare**

The only witness who saw my patiently awaited until one fell off thing of the incidents after the de-when the unfortunate swain whose parture of the other two constables name it boro was instantly discard was stall-holder who, emerginged as being unfaithful. from his hut some 820 yards away

saw two men struggling and mw

that one was an Indian constable ALL SAINTS DAY, and the other a Chinese He heard:

In police whistle blown and immedi

NOVEMBER 1,

considering their altered circumstances.

"This is pretty hard luck," said

one.

"Don't jump to conclusions," the other said; "we are out of the.

This festival wet and provided with board and takes its lodging."

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origin from With lodging, certainly," said the conver-the First Frog; but I don't see

"You are a croaker" the other

Moral: Always look on the

ately afterwarde shot. He ran sion, in the seventh century, of the board." to the residence of Mr. Knopp the Pantheon at Rome Into a nearby and together with the latter Christian place of worship, and explained "We are the board

its dedication by Pope Boniface want to the spot. They heard anTV to the Virgin and all the bright side of things. other shot and by the time they reached the scene of the struggle the constable was lying face down- wards mid there was no-one to be: Been',

Mr. Whyte Smith said that the defendant had absconded from his residence" und crossed the border and it was when he was returning to cuery out negotiations for some property he owned in Kowloon City- that he was arrested at the bridge at Lo Wu At an identification parade, he, was recognised as the man who was arrested by the picket.

The ultimate aim was the thing, no matter how crooked the way to them. But the dead past had buried

After evidence at the "Central its dead. The dawn of a new era Magitney yesterday, the case was beckoned, and the promised land | adjourned..

of contentment loomed in the

Overland China Mail. distance. A guide there had

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KOWLOON STORE VINEGAR CASE.

pure vinegar. Va

been Wise, discreet other guides there were; men of know- ledge and experience, yet not all blessed with a knowledge of the sure path. The old road had bean "pleasant-broad and comfortable. Mr. D. McCallum apologised at Fruit trees lined it on either side. the Kowloon Magistracy yester- Luscious-almost free for the vious day in the course of hearing day for a remark made the pre-

plucking. A very easy road on of a case against the manager of which many tarried plucking not the Kowloon store for selling wisely but too well. Forgetting vinegar of deficient quality as the thirsty ones; the toilers and At the time he made the re- those who put off the robe of op-mark, said Mr. McCallum (who portunity for that of procrastina-defended the manager of the store), he was under the mis- tion, the fruit gatherers waxed

apprehension that Inspector fat; the others thin. There was Hooper who took the samples gave discontentment. But the com-in evidence on Thursday a con- mand to "work together" seized trädictory statement to the one he the people and they bought up the made at a previous hearing.

His Worship imposed a fine of opportunity. Their bartering $50 on the manager of the store was done on equitable lines. They in respect of the charge of selling They adopted the motto of the lived, not in palaces of exorbit diluted vinegar. distinguished personage who had fance, but in places which taxed studied them for six years and them not unduly. The one saw they worked together.

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Hongkong. Saturday, October 31, 1993.

LOTUS LAND..

The Boy Scouts, Girl Guides Writers that though they were not here and Brownies will attend the had written of Lotus Land. for their health's sake, they were eleven o'colck service at St. John'

the Singer's filled

air with here for things more enduring Cathedral to-morrow when the refrains inviting, but the intangi- than money. The others glimps- addrese will be giren by the Scout, ble refuses to become tangible led the new spirit and example Communioner. Beat holders are unless the breath of actuality is again proved itself better than kindly requested to note that

of the front sente will be breathed into it. So they talked precept. All saw virtue in for Scouts, Gunges and Jess and worked a little more. honest dealing and frank inter- They found sermone in strikes, course on problems that mattered. tongues in trees, books in the The departing one had seriously libraries, and what is more im and studiously, set himself to tasks God carried invinc

it is finer thing kill to portant good in everything. The of good gover At times of last though the longed f

alleged never broken, and see

sesa hoa bui da

uses of adversity became aweet. hardship he had set The world became a different economic facts at daff place. New values arose, New the people benefitted. disciplines and new disciples. A ing message was "work subject race became the centre of land on the eve of the adv much thought and speculation yet another proved Their view point took on can diversity of added Interest. made to understand it..

was spirit

not merely to

had been givan:

but in

und

ALL-HALLOW-EEN.

caulcannon," the

The vigil of All Saints' Day is cakes," and All-Hallowe'en, but in the North latter being a mixture of mashed of England it is called "Nut-crack potatoes and cabbage, while they wait at the midnight hour for the Neet."

spirits of the dead to visit them.

Burns's Poem.

Nuity-crack nest, Ah mornit forget... Nine neete afore Mart-mas day' We hov, a feast of apples and nuts,

An' hoo we crack away!

In this island of ours we peer into the future through the Fagency of nuts Usually the cus- Customs of the past are being tom has its feminine adherents, relegated to the rubbish-heaps by and sitting round the fire each the inrush of modern ideas, but places two nuts in the fire, side by "Nut-crack. Neet" is still observed side, having given to them a name. in the North of England, and nuts Burns, in his poem, "Hallowe'en," and apples still figure largely in refers to the custom practised in. the festivities.

his day, thus:—

HALLOWEEN

And mong Jaxis. Are there t Same

And burn Some star

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