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YOU ARE INVITED THEY SE 1920 CATALOG No. 92

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WATER RETURN.

Level and Storage of water in Reservoirs on May 1, 1920.

CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL..

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THE RONG ONG TRANG

GREAT DISCOVERY IN A' COUNTRY HOUSE.

PRICELESS SHAKE SPEAREAN BOOKS.

"Just before Christmas the

THURSDAY, MAY 27,

ONERA

NOTICE - TO CONSIGNEES.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

keanest interest was aroused, not From EUROPE AND STRAITS, only amongst Shakespearean SIU-

dants, but the public at large, by THE Company's Steamship'

| the discovery and subaequantsalo

of some unique prixes of Tudor:

and Elizabethan literature belong-

“TSUSHIMA MARU.”

ing to the Britwell Court having arrived from the above! Library," Bays the Daily ports, Consignees of Cargo are Telegripa.

hereby informed that their Goods are being landed, and placed at their risk in the Hongkong, and Kowloon Wharf and Godow Company's Godowns at-Kowloon. where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon ai tha Goods are landed.

The greatest prize of the whole collection, a fourth edition of Shakespeare'sTenus and Adonis, and a first edition of his Passionate Pilgrim, both bear ing the date 1399, were bought by an American gentleman at the astonishing price of £15,100. No other fourth edition of the Venus poem is extant, which accouni no doubt for the extraordinary value of the specimen in question.

THE MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED.

After such a discovery as this

Optional Grods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before Noon, To- day.

Goods not cleared by the 1st. June, 1920, will da subject

it did not seem in the slightest | to rent. degree probable that we should' have to record another of similar Damaged packages must be lef

in the Godowns for examination: magoitude and importance. Nevertheless, the miracle has by the Consignee's and the Co.'s bappened. In Longner Hall near representatives at an appointed Shrewsbury, Mr. Richard Francis hour on Tuesday & Friday. All Burton, as a result of a search claims must be presented within amongst venerable books preserve ten days of the steamer's arrival ed in bis muniment room for over here, after which date they cannot 200 years came across a little be recognised. No claims will be volume of priceless worth.

admitted after the goods bave left the GodowLS

**It included a first edition at The Passionate Pilgrim, the poem which is usually bound up with Shakespeare's Sonnets: a Efth edition of the Venus and Adonis, with the title page. whereas the copy in the Bodleian has no titlepage: a third edition.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

Agents.

Hongkong. 25th May, 1920,

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THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.

of the Lugrece,' and an unex- the vigilance of the sleuths of The Steamship

pected find, a continuation of Shakespeare-hunting. Measuring Lucrece, written by Thomas only 5 in. by 3'à in, it is bound

Middleton. himself a versatile

dramatist, and known admirer of Shakespeare.

** I THINK I HAVE.”

An

together in contemporary vellum" covers, with gilt-line ornamen's, probably the work of a sixteenth-

.-

BESSIE DOLLAR”

century stationer. The effecs of having arrived from Vancouver its discovery upon bibliophiles | B.C. and ports on May 20th, 1920, will be somewhat akin to that of consignees are hereby notified Einstein upon astronomer, be

cause years ago all hope seemed that their cargo

being

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS.

HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN

CONSIGNEES.

STRUTHERS & DIXON INC.

NOTICE TO. CONSIGNEES.

From SAN FRANCISCO.

AND SEATTLE

THE Steamship

"WEST HIMROD"

CONSIGNEES,

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

THE

"HE Company's Steamship From SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.

MADRAS MARU”,

baring arrived from the above Consignees of Cargo are hereby having arrived from San Fran- notified that their goods are being cisco via ports on 23rd May, 1920, landed and placed at their risk in consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at the Hongkong and Kowloon their risk into the hazardous Wharf and Golown Company's" and/or Extra-Hazardous Godowns Godowns

at Kowlood, where of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd. delivery can be obtained as BOOD Kowloon, and stored signees' risk.

at

con-

"Here is the story of this great End. Shortly after the Britwell aale a gentleman living in an old hall near Shrewsbury (the region to be banished of finding any landed at their risk into the of the famous Welsh Marcheal more early coples of Shake-bazardons Godowns of the Hong- had another search among some speare's poems. venerable books which had been The discoveries of forgotten

kong and -Kowloon Wharf and preserved in his muniment room quarto editions of the plays in Godown Compans. Limited and for-over 200 years. I think Buckinghamshire about 14 years stored at consignees risk. have got a little volume contain- ago emboldened further resear ing an interesting Venus and eber, and the Mostyn quartos of Adonis. with 2 Bassionate the early Elizabethana came as a Pilgrim," and others of possibly great surprise last year. We have cargo is 18 be left in the equal importance, be modestly always held that, desple the Godowns until Tuesday, May 5, VIS" from Seattle are berer declared and before delivery can wrote to Sotheby's. He had. thoroughness of the Historical 1920, when they will be examined To-day the Elizabethan pundits Manuscript Commission's shrewd by Messrs. Carmichael & Clarke of the literary world will be rush-tatours, there are still unexplored 2.30 pun. Tureday May 25th,

1920. muciment rooms in uld fastnesses in this country, and that some: day a real Shakespeare mano- arript will emerge from forgotten

ing to see it.

"This amazing trouvaille con- tains (1) another first edition of the 1599 Passionate Pilgrim with additions made up from either an unknown earlier edition or from a portion of that 1605 edition, of which no other trace exists; (2) a fifth edition of the the Venas and Adonis, new proved by its title page to be of the same year of issue as the

dual

All broken, chafed and damag-

Claims will not be accepted unless carga is so examined by said surveyors, prior to the above

date.

FOUND AT LOSUNER HALL. "Mr. Richard Francis Burton, who found this volume at bis

All claims must be presented home. Longner Hall, near Shrew within a month of the steainer's sbury, states that it belonged to arrival here, after which they his ancestor. William Burton, cannot be recognised.

there were Shropshire

All goods remaining undelivered

| fourth, 1599 (hitherto the fifth in and

the Bodleian, without this title | Bortons at the time of the page. has been believed to be Armada. It would be interesting No Claims will be admitted the only extant copy of it); (3) au- to know whether Bobert Burton. after the goods have left the other third edition, 1600, of the the author of the Anatomy of "Lucrce." therefore again disput- | Melanchols, was

* collateral go/owne ing the Bodleian claim to posses- | turmber of the family, especially sing the 'unly one perfact copy'; as be formerly owned the (4) 2 rival to the Lamport Hall only Copy of the sixth copy of the 1595 Emaricdulfe* (1602) edicion of Venus after "May 7th. 1929, will be -onnets (the anagram on the and Adonis, nox one of the prizes subject to rent. name of the patroness. Mario in the Bodleian-Naturally, the Cufeld); and (3) a completely chief reason for the enormous unknown coatinuation of La-sum paid by Mr. Smith for the crece." written in 1600 by fourth edition (1599) of the Shakespeare's admirer. the 'Venus' ** that neither the versatile Thomas Middleton, un- Bodleian nor the British Museuro

Consignees are requested to der the litle of the Chost of contained an example of that send in their bills of lading for Lucrece.

edition, although the prize of countersignature. prizes, the unique first, dated HOPE FOR A SHAKESPEARE 15. 11502, for which Malone gaveonly Such is a bald statement of £25, is eternally at Oxford. Still, the contents of this remarkable | this new Burton fifth transcends little volume (to be sold on March the fifth in the Bodleiso in that 23, just after the Yates Thompson it has the title-page, missing manuscripts), which has escaped from the Oxford fifth copy.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

Consignees of cargo per "WEST notified that their cargo was transhipped at Yakobams to the "WEST HIMROD."

Consigners of cargo must pro- duce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports & Exports. Hongkong. before Bills of Lading will be counter- signed.

as the goods are landed.

Consignees are hereby notified thas General Average has been

be

given

they must signed General Average Bond. Deposit General Average Contribution of bree percent (3) on the amount of the estimated value of their respective interests and furnish completed ==luation-statments:--

Goods not cleared by the 2nd June, will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed and dam- aged cargo is to be left in the Godowns where it will be: Damaged packages, must be examined at 11 am, on 31st May left in the Godowns for examin- 1920. by the Company's suration by the Consignees repre- veyors. "Messrs. Carmichael & sentative and the Company's Clarke.

Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at 10 a.m. on Wednesday All claims must be presented and Saturday. All cisime must bo within thirty days of the steam presented within Thirty days of er's arrival here, after which they the steamer's arrival hore, after cannot be recognized. No claitas which date they cannot be re- will be recognized after the goods cognized. No claim will be ad- have left the Godowns, and cargomitted after the goods have left undelivered on and after 31st the Godowns, Max 1920, will be subject to

No Fire Insurance whatever rehi. will be effected.

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.,

Agente.

Hongkong, 20th May, 1920.

That's What It's For, Freckles !

Consignees are requested to send in their Billa of Lading for countersignature immediately. STRUTHERS & DIXON, INC.

Agents.

1st floor, Powell's Building,

12. Des Voeux Road, Ctl. Hongkong, 24th-May, 1920.

BY BLOSSER

No fee insurance whatever will be affected.

Consignees are requested o send in their Bills of Lading for countersignatures immediately.

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

Y. YASUDA,

Manager. Hongkong, 25th May, 1919.

ITS RAT AIMA WARD, POD- I GOTTA HAVE A -WURZELLA”-

WELL-THAT?” BASY»

I'LL GET YOU YOUR

UMBRELLA.

CANT I HAVE ONE OF YOURS,

ROD?

with us o

BRAND AEW ONE ON YOUR BETADAY(-WRY "ADT USE IT NOW?

USE THAT W THIS KIND OF WEATHER?!? "ISMULD SAY NOT!

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