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MR. NUT MILK NESTLE

HALF-BROTHER to Mr. Nestle

Milk, Mr. Nut Milk Nestle is characterised by the same likeable nature and case of acquaintance. A thorough gentleman whose good taste you will appreciate on all chocolate occasions and one whose popularity never wanes.

NESTLE'S

NUT MILK

"

CHOCOLATE

THE BIG FOUR NESTLE'S MILK CHOCOLATE NESTLE'S NUT MILK CHOCOLATE NESTLE'S PLAIN CHOCOLATE NESTLE'S PLAIN CHOCOLATE WITH FRUIT & NUTS.

G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) ITD WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS DIAMOND MERCHANTS, Union Building (Opposite G.P.0.),

Agents for: ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers.

J

High Class English Jewellery.

THE CHINA MAIL.

£500 LEGACY TO A THE NEW FASHIONS FRANCE

BATMAN

BOER WAR GALLANTRY

RECALLED E

EX-M.P.'8 BEQUEST

In gratitude for the rescue of his

IN TOYS!

BOYS DEMANDING THINGS THAT GO

ECLIPSE IN DOLLS

What are the popular toys of to- helpless son from blazing grass on day! What, for instance has hap

Guards.

M.P.

SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKE

SAILORS HEAR STRANGE HISSING NOISES AT SEA

TERRIFIC GALE

Nantes, Yesterday.

A severe earthquake shock was felt throughout the West of France, lasting a South African battlefield twenty- ponad to Noah's Ark? nine years ago, the late Mr. Charles My eyes searched the toy win for several seconds here and over 1 James Murray, of Loch Carron, dows of one of the largest departminute at Vannes, where chimneyn were dislodged. At Lorients; an earth- Ross-shire, formerly

for mental stores in the country, and quake shock, which was felt at 7.45 Hastings and Coventry, lett £500 saw not one of them, states Ap.m., apparently from the north east in trast to ex-Lance-Sergeant Morning Post representative.

of the Atlantic, accompanied by sab- Dickins, of the 2nd Grenadier asked the toy buyer, a man whose terranean rumbling, lanted for three business it is to scour Europe-or, seconds. People rushed out of their Sergeant Dickins was batman to at least, the toymaking part of it-houses fearing a collapse. A second Mr. Murray's son, Alastair Heneage for the very beat and latest things shock, lasting for two seconds, soon Murray, during the Boer War. to bring from Fairyland at Yule afterward was felt throughout Brit tany. There was a terrific gale in the At the battle of Biddulphberg, in tide, the reasons.

Sailors and coastguarda "You will hardly see one of them evening. May, 1960, both the officer and hla Bervant were severely wounded. [anywhers," he said. "The Noah's peak of strange, hissing and sizzling In spite of his own injuries, how-Ark was a prime favourite long be ever, Sergeant Dickins succeeded fore I began to take any business in dragging Mr. Murray, who Interest in toys, and its passing will be accompanied with a tinge of re- could not move, out of the flames.

noises in the sea-Router.

WATER RETURN

Level and Storage of water in Re- servoirs on January 1, 1930: CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS

1920 1990 15' 6" 11" "B Tytam Tytam Byewash .. 24' 6"B 19' 5"B Tytam Intermediate 2' 2"B 0′7′′E Tytam Tuk 47 08 8111"B 24 " 19′ 1′′B Wong Nel Chung.

..... 23" 10'11" [Note: B. denotes "Below Over- ow: A. denotes "Above Overflow"; denotes Level with Overflow." Storage in million and demicals of gallons

1020

A close friend of the late Mr.gret, but It is not the only toy Murray said that It was not certain which has gone, or is going, out of whether the can survived the action. fashion. The Teddy Bear is suffer "I think that he died of his ng from a serious decline, and the wounds very soon afterwards," he cuddly and grotesque soft toys sald. "Mr. Murray wished to re-which have enjoyed a more or less ward Sergeant Dickins for his fleeting popularity seem to be on faithful service throughout, in ad-thoir, last legs. The wooden horse, dition to this specific act of gal-that old favourite, is still in

evidence, however." lantry."

It will doubtless please peace Whereabouts Unknown The present whereabouts of loving people to know that militia-Pokfulum Sergeant Dickins are unknown, and tic toys are decidedly on the wane, It is even doubtful if he is alive, though this statement must be The family have not heard of him qualified to the extent that guns, The sergeant's pistols, and the like still appeal to for twenty years.

Tytam wife and family to whom the boys, who from one generation to

Tytam Byewash money was also left-are also un- another "like a good bang."

But, as far as boys are concern-Tytam Intermediate traced.

The reverse at Biddulphsberg, ed, this is an age of mechanical Tytam Tuk......

Pokfulam when the Grenadiers were trapped toys, and electricity and clockwork Wong, Nel Churg and suffered severe losses from hold the field. There is a bigger concealed riflemen, was rendered variety of railways, aeroplanes, and worse by the catching fire of the motor-cars in the toy windows and A strong on the toy shelves of the stores and long grass on the pinin. wind fanned the flames, which shops of Great Britain this season enveloped the helpless wounded, than ever before. some of whom were burnt to death before they could be moved.

QUARRY BAY FIRE 1,000 Gallons of Tar Destroyed

At about 7.30 last evening a ire, which destroyed over 1,000 at the gallons of tar, occurred Government Quarry at Shaukiwan. The outbreak was due to the

overbolling of tar and, helped by a wind, the flames spread rapid-

·ly. An attempt to put out the": fire was made by workmen throw ing sand ever it but this did not have much effect.

Two Are engines turned out but the firemen found their task a difficult one. They fought the flames for over an hour before they got the upper hand. They did good work, however, in check ing the progress of the flames to ward the workshop of the Teang Fook Piano Co., on the other side of the narrow street..

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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

Opening Daily Official Quotations 10th January, 1930,

STOCK

Buy-Sell-

Sales Nom

*

Banks.

Hong Kong Bank ........$ Chartered Bank

Mercantile Bk., AMBIL

SO

19265 Canton Ins.

757.42 Union Int..... 872

DIVIDEND

WHEN

• PAID

1505 $1205/1800) Dee. Intori a 16 1020 $18. Doo. Interim 1-9/0 1020

311

127

183

Bank of Asia .........$ (95

1930

268.14 .86

295.90

Insurances.

8.03

183.90

708

522.00

7.09.

10.65

18.00-

10. China Underwriter. 42.38

2

***

20

$820

China Fire In Total

098.55 1,301.98 Consumption of water in the City H. K. Fire Ins. and Hill District in millions and de-

Shipping. cimals of gallons daring the month of December.

1928 1929 Douglases...

In the girls' realm the doll is Consumption...... 196.41 210.84 suffering a slight eclipse.

Estimated population, 428.260 438,580 H. K. Steamboats....$ Consumption per

Indo-China (Pref.) ...$ head per day

14.8

16.5

(Def....$ Services to houses in the Rider

Shell Transports.aj- Main Districts were disconnected and

supply was given by public street Union Waterboat...$ 201 fountains only during December, 1928.

HAUNTED HOUSES

Are They A Drag In The

Market?

From December 1 to 31, 1929, a 12-

Miology

hour's supply (6 a.m.6 p.m.) was given to all Rider Main Districts. | Benguen ....... Principal Maina closed (6 pm- 3 a.m.).

KOWLOON WATER WORKS

Kailan Mining Ad. #J- Langkat (Camb.)...

(Single).Th

S'hai Exploration.The Loans...Tlt.

The question, now being raised In Berlin Courts, whether an alleged haunting is prejudicial to the market value of a house, was answered in the affirmative by a Kowloon Restcvole 97 GB, PA Rubi West End land agent.

Shek. Lai Pul

Heservoir

1929 1930

911"E

Storage in million and decimais Reception Reservoir 18" 183

of gallons.

1329

"If," said this authority, "the property is an ordinary one, with nothing of a special character to re- commend it, any reputation it may have sequired of being haunted is Kowloon Reservoir 280.74

a decided drawback.

"We knew of a house some years ago not very far from London, ad- joining a common and a lake, which had a very sinister reputation. It was supposed to be haunted by the ghost of a newly married woman who had thrown herself into the lake. The widower kept the house up for many years, but he could'

There were over 2,000 gallons, naver sell ft. of tar stored at the quarry, half of which was burned before the fire was finally extinguished with Band.

Woman Injured by Engine A fire-engine which was dam- aged last night when attending the

"Eventually a bold purchaser was found, but largely owing to the fact that the district had, in the meantime, developed very much and the house bad lost its lonely and eerie appearance. ``

"Often we get the question put

fire at Shaukiwan was involved into us, lezpecially when old half-

a street accident this morning just timbered places are concerned, with before noon.

low.cellings and the appearance of concealed cupboards and silently moving panela, 'Do you know of any hauntings?

The damaged engine was being towed back to the Central Fire Brigade Station by another engine. Connecting the two engines was a Laugh Them Off nteel shaft, and, as they arrived

Shek Lai Ful

Reservoir Reception Reservoir

·

Tronoh Mines +/-

4.70

!

Doc.

freo 1/2

Aug. 6, 19 Sope

sobra

Feb. 18,99

181 and boune 12

making $5 for 1939 mm

(879,87 €)

Final for 16271

| Doc. | Esterim 015 2/0 152) "#90.....| May 29, 39

Finxi 16. for 1927)

Dac

kuterim Zay mix 2009 -83... May 26, 20

| Dec. | Xene

(Vinal 30 bonum Bd]

2005

Des

for 1997

#14-May. 24,20

(Istoria $3 s/v 1905)

Dec. $13 for 1927

...1271

Dec. $1 for 1928

18

Deo.

30

35/10 Dec.

Dec.

Mar. 26,29

Feb. 19,99

Déc. Last dividem) for 1034.......

[111. 85. 2-3 on preferred;

for 1991 and 1925 m.................

Last lividend for 1921

Jano 19, 39

Int. Coon No. 65 free Jan. 6, 20

+ A/T

1/2 122.

1.25 and benne, making? Ja, 81, 37

$1.50 for 1955 tone

Interim 20 centar o 10% Dec.

Dec.malug+Ccentavos}

Plan 2/- fro 1/TAX

55-June Cospeis No. 18 for 37: 30-0-29] Dea. --- 20

Oct. Last die, for year $1-1057,

150 Dic. None

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18.00

1+

+44

15

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Deo. Last dividend for 10

11+

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Mar. | Interim 178 afe year 11-3-30.... Deo, 12, 99

[21/-

29

ליי.

Docks, WharVOE,

Godowns, &c.

1880

364.24

104.10 79.28

28.75

29.75 China. Providents 5.45 5.58 5

Hongkews

H. K. & K. Wharves..$144 H. K. & W. Docks...5

...

$

100

Total s 803.59 402.27 N. Engineerings ...Th Consumption of water in Kowloon during the month of December. in millions, and doefmals of gallons Shanghai Docks ....

Consumption Estimated population 168,220 Consumption Ber

head per day

210

217 Constant Supply in all districts during December 1928 and 1929.

1928

1929.

Cotton Mills. 109.76 118.38

173,280 Ewo Cottons........The

S'hai Corn (ald)..Tis. jas

1) -(new)..Tls,`

The Government Analyst's reports show that the quality of the water is satisfactory

Total rainfall: December 31, 1928, 71.18; December 31, 1929, 69.88.

EXCHANGES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

On London- Bank, wire,

Zoong Singi

ན ་ ་ ོམ་ ཨ་

Lands, Hotels &

Buildings.

H.K. & S. Hotels... 12.40

H. K. Linds

Shanghai Lands...TH.

Humphreys

H. K. Realties

Dec.jsh, tons Lax Coupon No. 1... Sep.

Doo.

$3 & Ben

for 109

making Mar. 7. $9.

Dea. Last dividend for 1024

Dec.Last videns för 2926, jam

音

Doc. Interim T. 2 aặc 19%............................. Sop, 19, 20 - Dec. T. 040anlimary for 1918.............. Mar. 16, 29

[1.7,60 for ye, ending 10-4-20) | July 27, 19 108 Apr.

Eolara Tis. 15

Oct. 25, 29

16.10 (10.90/10) Dec. Interim T. 0,40 2/6 1020

[T. 260 miši ter half year

Jane T0-01 for yoir 2965).

| Aug. 28, 99

Now, 58, 95

Oct, 11, 29

(19.40/4)

€13,30

+

Dee. Ist dieidend for 1924 Locatering 109 Fac. Intaria T 6, n/c 1929

180 reats and bonus Dee.making gitar 1228

Deo. Interias o centa je 1923. Tob. $4 for year 25-229 3.

Ang. 3, 19

July 81, 29

29

m

Feb. 8′ 19′′

Ang. 29, 39

June

Chinese Estates

Public Utilities

H. K. Tramways

Peak Trame: (old)

Dec. Interim 50 eta 13

Edo eta "on now! · 894-19,

and bank¥ $1.50

Aug. 27, 19:

June, 7, 29.

making $3.50 for 199 Feb. 10,99

Julial eta, da (old)) för year)

Ioanta 20.78 (0mm)J 100-19. Dec,21,29

Bid

1155 OD BAR for 19

1/4 th

URGENTLY REQUIRED

OLD BLANKETS.

THE HONG KONG BENEVOLENT

SOCIETY

(Established 1889):

will be very glad to receive them at the

City Hall

Every MONDAY and THURSDAY at 10.30 ±m.uz/

soon arrived on the scene and first ordinary servant to stop in ald was rendered: The woman was if some one tells her It is hat then taken to the Government Civil 1 only a door were

would be ors Hospital.

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Political Post For Jewish

"Of course, we don't treat such Bank, on demand... 1/6 9/16: at the Central Market, the towing questions very seriously. We Bank, 80 days" sight an engine manoeuvred round in order laugh them off as far as possible: Bank, 4 months sight:1/6 % to turn into the station. In so but there they are, and, incredible Credits, 4 months' doing, the catch which fastened though it may seem to be, the fact the shaft to the two engines is there are many people who would Documentary 6 months m broke, with the result that it shot not, even at the present day, take sight out and caught a Chinese woman a house which has the reputation In the forehead. A

of being haunted, however: false The unfortunate woman was the reputation may be, o- carrying a child in her arms "And it is not only the pro She received an ugly gash on the spective tenants who may feel On Berlin left of her temple and was nervous, there is the question of the on dér bleeding profusely. An ambulance males. You will

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sight

1/7/2

H. K.

Mar. 29, 39

1/75%

On Paris On demand

957

Sandakan. Ligh H.K.

Bok, Zntario 20 càntano 1920

Bay 18, 29

Credits, 4 months

sight

China

Feb. 21, 19

1032

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