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CRUSOE AS SERIAL. LANCASHIRE DAYS. MAN-EATING CLAMS.
RARE NEWSPAPERS ON SALE
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MILLS THAT NO ONE WILL BUY.
COTTON'S NEW RIVALS,
"Lancashire Under the, Hammer." By R, Bowker. (Hogarth Press, 38. 6d.)
ADMIRAL'S ADVENTURES. IN THE SOUTH SEAS.
"THE CHART MAKERS."
"The Chart-Makers." By Vice-Ad- miral Boyle Somerville. Blick- wood, 10. d.)
The market rose to the occasion at Sotheby's (writes A. C. R. Carter in the "Daily Telegraph"), when there were offered for sale the All who want to know they roal As à record of naval adventure rare numbers of a London news condition of the great Lancashire in time of peace it would be dift- paper, published in 1719-20, and in cotton industry to-day will do well cult to beat Admiral Somerville's) which the enterprising editor had to read this little book. Within a book, and it is written with such shown the flair of the true journal- short space il gives a powerful and grace and 'case. of style that its in- ist by printing "Robinson Crusoe" penetrating analysis of the causes teresting pages are peculiarly at- as a serial within a few months which. have brought a large part tractive. It tells the story of sur of its first lasue in book form. of that industry to the threshold vey work off the coast of Queens-
The announcement that these of the bankruptcy court.
land and among the Pacific Islanda numbers would be one of the out- Since 1920 many, If not most, of some 30 years ago. standing features of the third por- the mills have been working at a tion of the famous Holford Library, loss, This Is one among many ex- was made in "The Daily Tele- amples of the ruin that has tallow-veyors were walking along the reef graph" on Feb. 15, and so eager od:
which borders the Queensland were the big fighters to join
coast:" issue, that they unanimously agreed to take the whole of the Defoe lots of tracts and pamphlets together, in which the prized num- bera of "Heathcot's Intelligencer" were embedded, and Mr. Ben Magga began the fight with the call of
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The foreign dealers looked on with wonderment as "Quaritch" and other English collectors carried the competition to £2,500. Dr. Rosenbach was not present, but those acquainted with the per- sonnel of auction could discern his agent weaving into the contest, and when his representative had semaphored £3,000, the name of Rosenbach was called as the win-
ner.
Only two other sets of this 1719- 20 London newspaper are known to survive. The one in the British Museum forms one of the posses- sions which the beneficent Thomas Grenville bequeathed to the nation. but it is very imperfect. Grenville should always be remembered for having proudly boasted that, when he was only an ensign in the Cold atream Guards, he once bid against a whole bench of Bishops for a tare Bible."
There were risks in this work. One had to be faced when the sur-
Some of the crevices are the hidden dwelling-places of giant clams, whose double shells often- weigh as much na a hundred- weight. If as you wilk you look sufficiently closely you can distin guish the mouths of these man- trapa (though they are intended to be fish-traps). One of the men
Nearly a hundred years ago one of the pioneers of the trade began to build up Hornby's of Blackburn. For four generations the family went on building; their name stood high; their credit extended; the fame of their clath went to the ends of the earth. A month or two ago their mills and weaving sheda were put up for publle auction. There was none In all Lanca-"Amethyst" when the tide was ris- shire ready to pay them the ing honour of a single bid.
Tax And Rate Burdens, Mr. Bowker is full of concern for the future!
In the Far Eastern markets, where the bulk of her loss of trade is, Lancashire can at best. make only partial recovery against the home producer and the Japanese exporter. Japan, Italy, China and India are all striving to push Lancashire down. A little alcad a new and very powerful rival is bound to emerge and fight strongly for place the United States. Yet, when such is the situation taxes and rates are not being lowered to enable Lancashire to compete. With this factor in the decline of the cotton industry Mr.
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put his foot into, the mouth of one of these giant clams. The heavy jaws, with their strong muscles; immediately closed like a rat-trap on his leg just above the ankle, and there he was a prisoner. His chums tugged, they tried to drag open the iron lips; it was of no avail, the clam was too strong for them. The tide rose steadily up and up the unfortunate man's body.. Some of the men rushed away to signal to the ship for a boat and for help. Assistance came but it was barely in time for the tide had already risen to the man's shoulders,
The shell had to be battered in with a long iron bar before the man, could be released, "badly lacerat
The second act of "Heathcot's Bowker does not deal. He places ed, but alive," Intelligencer." containing "Robin-31 his hopes in a form of rationali
Besides man-eating. oysters the son Crusse" as a serial, appeared antion-now the fashionable cure admiral had to deal with min-cat-! in the sale of the library of Bishop for complaints in industry. Obing natives. He tells some strange Gott, of Truro, just twenty years viously, something must be done, tales of magic and manners in the ago, and brought the very modest for he reminds us that he recently South Seas. A particularly grialy. sum of £116. But the Rosenbachs learnt
custom of the heathen New were not then hunting for trea-
stres.
A Defce Letter. The value of the Holford set was enhanced by the insertion of a holograph letter from Defoe to. Lord Wharton protesting against the preferment of “a scandalous priest." and, as one saw in the Morrison sale, any scrap of writ ing in Defoe's hand is very valu- able.
Further, as
that a famous Turkish firm of Hebrides was then to bury the old) merchants WAS deserting its mon alive in order to get rid them. palatial Manchester offices, and There was a case its long tradition of Lancashire cloth buying, and making its new home in Italy,
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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is on the Avon
River, England?
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the Volga at the elty of Nizhn)
"Ex" 42-A.gallay with three banks of oars 44-Unit
45-A Brazilian coin 47-An Insect
Novgorod, central | 43-At the mouth of
Russia?
11-Not within 13-Combining form.
Far 14-What is the eat of
One threads of reference in the focal plan of a telescope?
18-A river. Jaland 17-Combining form.
Air
19-Nice discernment 21-What is an angler's willow basket? 24-A constellation 26-A
tropical vine
with edible roots 27-Suffix Samo za
28-A vain bird 30-Negative 31-Noisler
22-A tube by which a
fluid, la conveyed 23-Who was the
captain of the host of Absalom? 35-A flower 38-What city In
Minnesota la at the extremo.western end 07 Lake Superior?
what river is
Archangel,
*N. Russia? [49-A narrow way
61-A sign of the zodiac 58-Anything given to
pacity
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68-A pasture
80-Girl's name 61-A small stream 62-What, town in N. Wẫ
Natal, S. Africa, was besieged by Boers, 1899-1900? 83-To carn as clear
profit
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3-A
protracted pain
famous French
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river, 6. W. England?
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Parth. E. Scotland1 18-A kind of
ambraidered aloth 20-To be able 22-River (Spanish) 23-Limit
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kernels and sugar 29-Proverb 31-What great sexport
city is at the
mouth of the
Mersey river England
24-A market |36-A monk, in Italy
37-Vulgar
38-A fabulous animat 39-A.number
41-The flow of the
WEYCE
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painter (1684-1721) 46-Possesive pronoun
to place 48-Thick liquids or
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humorist (1713-1768)
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will
appear in 'Monday's issue along with a new cross-word,
puzzle.)
WATER SUPPLY.
Lovel and Storage of water in Ro- servoirs on April 1, 1928:-
WORKS LEVEL.
Storage in millions and Declmali of gallons.
In a travel book which is quite CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER of Scotland, "Caledonia," which he to follow. It concerns the adven- wrote in Edinburgh while, on a tures of one, Richard Penhaven, out of and above the political-missalon to influence Scot who got out of the Blue Train when order, Dr. Halford Ross tells of his tish public opinion in favour of it paused at a little country station wanderings in the devious ways of
1927 1028 the Union.
In the 'very heart of Europe, and earth where, as a rule, tourists do Notwithstanding the interests of never caught it again. Dealing not go. That to say, when he Tytam
„10′ 1′′ 15′ 10′′B Tytam Byewash .....23′ 3′′B 22 ('B these numerous miscellaneous writ-with the mysteries of the great and tolls of Port Said is not the port of Tytam Intermediate 22' 0"B 22′ 0′′] ings, which Dr. Johnson knew so formidable. Schloss Ruskoff, the the tourist, but the noisome plague Tytam Tuk
.82′ 8′′B 43' 1"B well that he could reel off a list story passes through many remark spot which it fell to his lot to clean. Wong Nei Chung ..15' 0"B 22 BB ́-18'' 0"B 21′ 'B Pokfulum of all the titles of Defoe's pamph-able, character, studies to the great Dr. Ross is an expert in tropical lets, the big bidding was due to Alexis Ruskoff himself. A tragic sanitation, and much of his travel. [Note: B. denotes “Below Overflow": the "Robinson Crusoe" newspapers. figure, this strong man, as the heading has been done in the pursuit A. denotes "Above Overflow."] The remarkable result much ex- of the Grey Battalions, yet a child of his ordinary work. ·· He is thus ceeds any price hitherto paid for at heart, there is pathos in his de- able to give an unadorned picture a first issue of the story in book votion to Zin, his wife, which is of Assam from the viewpoint of a form (in March, 1719), about treated with that delicacy and crusader against the malarial mos- £500.
understanding- so characteristle of quito, He knows Port Sudan, Tytam Some people will be saying: "this author. A really good book. Merkare, and other strange, remote ytam Eyewash wish my early eighteenth-century
Tytam Intermediate -S, C. spots in Africa, where to-day the Tytam Tak forbears had preserved these old
passing camel gets an extra hump Wong Nel Chung newspapers." But if many such had ments and trappings that a bon- as he contemplates the signs over Pokfulam done so there would be no rarity. bonniere should fetch the highest modern garages which advise So- The reason, for example, why price, 420gs. (Ben Simon). This and-So's tyres, or Blank's sparking- Bunyan's first edition of "The Pil-dainty trife was formed of plaques plugs for the use of merchants of grim's Progresa" is an valuable is of emerald-shell-shaped-in reed- because nearly every copy of it ed gold borders get with diamonds. was read and re-read until it was Probably carried by a buck in “THE CHINA MAIL,” General | thumbed out of existence.
George IV's reign was an English Prlaters
But of all the "surprising adven-circular gold snuff-box (the lid set Publishers and Booki indera. tures" of "Robinson Crusoe" the with ́a miniature of this king), |
recent auction event is not the which realise1 830gs (Chichester), Jeдst.
and another English 'gold snuff-
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KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL
1927 1928 253.92 Kowloon Reservoir 17" 9" 11' "B
1,07 Shek Lai Pui Reser». 91,40 voir
G'B 2' 0"B 578.75 Reception Reservoir 2′ 4′′B '11"
8.00 Storage of millions and decimals 27.24: 21.15
of gallons.
1027 1828' Kowloon Reservoir 193.83 245.40 Total ....... 1,191.68964.08 Chek Lai Pui Reservele 28.00 108.60 Consumption of water in the City
Reception Reservoir ..-27.03 30.73
the modern caravan. It is a very and Hill District in millions and do interesting travel tale, with plenty cimals of gallons during the month of of the right sort of amusing anec March,
dotes.
1027 1928 210,75 218.57
.*. Total
249.02 884.13 Consumption of water in Kowloon in millions, and docimals of gallons during the month of March.
1027 77.45
Consumption
1928 ("By Devious Days," by Halford Estimated population 410,200 420,020 Consumption
Rose,
02.45 London, Murray; Consumption per head.
Estimated population 159,400, 104,440 'per'day ...
17.0 Sydney, Dymock's,}
16.7
Consumption per hind Intermittent Supply in all Rider
15.4 17.0 Main: Districts weat
of Garden- Full Sundly in. distrlets during "Plains of Abraham," an his road during March, 1927. and March 1927 and 1928.7
In the meantime, at Christie's. box, painted with nympha and another portion of the apparently cupids, with the hill-mark, 1772, 25, Wing Wo St. Tel. C. 1116, | inexhaustible Hawkins treasures brought 310gs. (Mallett), among torical story of Quebec, by Mr. Full Supply in all rider main districts The Government Analyst's roporta Bletal Merchants and Ship was offered, and it was Illustrative whose other purchases was a Louis James Oliver Curwood, the Ameri- east of Garden-road during March, show that the quality of the water is
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satisfactory. Managing Director
Intermittent supply in all Rider Total rainfall to March 31, 1927, of uplendour in personal adern-Alaterre, Paris. 1771 246gs.
Main Districts during March, 1928, 0.20, March 31, 1928, 10.04
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