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CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES,

Sale of Mannscripts in March.

Messre. Sotheby announce the

FAR EASTERN MAIL SERVICE.

Demand for More Speedy Transit.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

A permanent meteorological observatory, the highest in Europe, has just been established Mossra. Alfred Holt and Co., on the Jungfraujoch at a height sale, on March 21 next, af Liverpool, address the following of 11,324ft. The observatory, some important manuscripts by, fatter to the Home Presse which will be completed atxt relating to Captain shall be grateful if you can find year, has already been con James Cook, the famous explorer. space for some observations on nected with the Swiss telegraph

manuscripts

the the Eastern mail, which is so in-system, and a man is going to property of the late Mr. H.W.F. efficient as to be a serious ion-spend the winter in it amid the Bolckow, M.P, (who died in 1873) pediment to business.

eternal snows. The observatory

or

Thane

BTB

constant

of Marton Hall, Marton-in- Since the war, We have is not very far from the Jung Cleveland, Yorkabire, and have experienced

friction fraujoch station of the Jungfra11 been in the library at Marton | with the Chinese Customs railway. It will be easy to Hall for over half a century.fat Shanghai - who have supply it with food and fuel, and, Captain Cook was born

in been quite considerate-because it will help very much towards labourer's cottage on the estate. manifests (bills of lading and the study of meteorological The manuscripts are all of the other shipping documents) which conditions in the higher zanes of highest bistorical interest, chief-are forwarded by mail, frequently the Alps,

ly, perhaps, Australasian, but fail to arrive until after the ship also American.

and cargo to which they relate

In view of Mr. Amary's state- Of the nine lots, chief promare in port, sud probably the Cas inence is given to the autograph toms would be within their rights ments about the need for "better the British manuscript of the diary which if they stopped discharge and do-distribution" of

over the British Captain Cook kept during his livery of the goods until the re-population

Dominions throughout the world, firat voyage to the South Sex, lative documents arrived. and detailing the remarkable Just recently, a very large firm is noteworthy that Lord Haig, occurrences On board H.M. of the Eastern merchants have hoopened in Manchester recent ly a new branch club for the barque Enden rour, from Mag asked us to keep their cargo British Legion, should have used 27, 1768, to July 11, 177, and the quay at Birkenhead for a

as the substance of his speech a extending to about 740 folios: week before shipment, in order stongly-worded warning to er one leaf in the account of Tahiti that they may have time to get Service men not to emigrate to is missing. This manuscript the documents to their destination

the Dominions "until the Domin was for many years unknown (simultaneously with the goods to Governments have set their to historians, but three con-which they refer

| house in order." Lord Haig said temporary copies were available, words, a fast and punctual cargo that the parochialism which kept one in the service, which is generally under-so many of the unemployed in on at Windsor, Record Office, and that belonging stood to be a valuable asset to this country hesitating to emi- to Mr. John Corner (now in the merchants and

igrate to the vast rich lands within Australian Museum at Sydney), who wish to sell their good, the Empire overseas was main- from which Admirst Wharton deprived of part of its valus btained because those who did priated his version in 1593. the absence of corresponding amigrate did not always find There are many verbal diferences postal facilities.

their expectations realized.

In other

manufacturers

between the printed version and Before the war, the mails to this autograph manuscript. The China and Japan went by the second lot is a pendant to lot trans-Siberian railway in about

...

Scots have always been noted

1. and consists of contemporary sixteen days, and, no doubt, in for their brif: (observes & Glas-

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923.

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copies of Captain Cook's corres course of time, the Russian Gov. sow correspondent in a Home MADELEINE PEARSON

poodence with the Admiralty ernment will reach a suficient paper), but in these dull times concerning his first voyage, and standard of respectability to en- most people have considerable facludes the secret instructions able that service to be resumed, difficulty in making ends meet. must look It is therefore all the more sar- and additional instructions to but meanwhile we

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On account of having to shortly vacate our present premises, we have marked down the whole of our stock.

him, known only from this to & reorganisation of the prisiog to fine from a report of a sessouse

sapscript.

service Suez, which, in any savings bank in Greenock-a The third lo: is the log-book oil case, is likely to be the principal Clydeside town which depends) H.M.S. Endeavour, May 26, 176s, means of serving places south of largely on the shipbuilding and to October 5, 1770: while the res: Hongkong, which suffer almost engineering industries-that the is the log-book of H.M.S. Dolphin, as much inconvenience from the armount at the credit of depositors, August 21, 1766, to October 16. inefficient mailservice as do those who are mostly of the working class, was larger by about £25,000 1767, dealing with the voyage to in the north. South Seas under Captain Samual The best modern cargo steam than it was a year ago. How has No industries Wallis. It was daring this ers-such as carry the bulk of the fit been done? voyage that Tabiti was discover more valuable exports from this have been more severely hit by ed, and Wallis reported strongly country to the Far East-take the prevailing depression tbsol in favour of this island as the between nine and ten days on the the shipbuilding and engineering most convenient place at which voyage from this country to Port trades, and other Clydeside in the Transit of Venus, due to occur Said, and the average ses speed fdustries have suffered. and are In June, 1769, could be observed, of cargo vessels is stendily in-sufering, in equal measure. Is for the increased and it was bis recommendation creasing. It is therefore neces-the reason which led the Royal Society to sary that there should be a mail amount to be found in the fact request the Admiralty that the service vis Marseilles or Brindisi tha: people are now spending less Ecdeavour.be sent there.

every week sufficiently fast to on what, to the working class, The autograph manuscript of overtake these steamers at Port may be considered luxuries, and Captain Cook's description of the Said, after hasing allowed time are living on the bare minimum ? coast of Nova Scotia, Sewfound for the preparation and negotia- land. Cape Bretoo. &c., formtion of shipping documents. another lot. It extends to thirteen By using some of the light pages large folio, and has two cruisers which are likely to be maps beautifully drawn in water-scrapped, it should be possible to dage denotes something different colours, and pen and ink. The provide a service in four days from those accursed Aanuals manuscript was written while from London to Port Said, as the by dabbling in which, Charles Captain Cook was master of voyage from Marsailles is only Lamb lamented, he had become H.M.S. Northumberland, the dates about 1,550 miles, and at Porta by-word of infamy all over the A Said sa intelligent postal agent kingdom," states a Home paper. ranging from 1758 to 1752. other lot consists of Captain could re-ship the mails by what Elis was not the only great Cook's sailing directions. and ever steamer was likely to carry writer who was invigled by the memoranda, probably written them most quickly to their decompilers, often ladies of title, 1555-6; while another is as stination. Saturday is the usual isto contributing to the "keep- eighteenth century Epitome of and best sailing day for cargoe annuals, richly bound in steamers, so the mail would have crimson silk or pea green levant, Voyages 1497-1635, and presum

to leave London in mid-week, and price at a guinea or two ably used by Captain Cook.

which would assure traders three which it became the cruel working days in which to prepare fashion in the first decades of decuments for dispatch with a last century to purchase and give practical certainty that they to friends at Christmas. The would arrive as soon as the goods contents of the volumes werE to which they relate, and thereby generally of anything but an considerable additional facility for British trade would be provided.jadged from the contents page of Lone typical specimen which STUDY OF TROPICAL DISEASES. include "The Dying Child, poem; When Augustine Jennings, re-Section of the British Empire The Orphan's Tears, poem: The It is hoped that the Scientific The Orphans, steel engraving : ceatly Independent candidate for Exhibition, which is to be held Lonely Grave, poem; The Dying North Paddington, appeared at

at Wembley (London) in Mother to Her Infant, poem." Marylebone Police Court on re-

be 1924, will mand, last month, eight addition, pletely representative than simi- al charges were made against lar sections at acy previous

A scheme for irrigation by him.

exhibition. Various scientific means of ice instead of water has Jennings was first charged societies are co-operating to been seriously put forward by an with forging and uttering make it a big success. One of ingenious person in, Texas. He cheque for £1,500 at Lloyds Bank, the departments in which the proposes to employ a rille-like Edgware-read, and with obtain-oversed Dominions are parti-mechanism to fire a series of ice- ing £21 103. by fraud.

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Among the new accusations is to the study of tropical diseases. is to be directed into the root; What is described as "the cost; be eradicated. As soon as the one of conspiring, with a man in which research and education system of an individus! plaat or radical departure in education" bill was proposed it was taken up named Castill, his former secre are likely to be of immense value, cluster of plante. The macbine ever known in America has just by the revived Ku Klux Kla

tary, to obtain credit and defraud.not only in the saving of human itself will be adjusted on a tractor been made by the State of Oregon. which In many parts of America He was also charged with obtain life, but in the betterment of in- containing a refrigerator that will A law has been passed requiring is now an avowedly anti-Catholic ing £30 and wines and spirits to dustry and borticulture. Already keep it perpetually loaded with all children between the ages of as well as anti-negro movement. the value of £15 from James some exbibite bave been arranged ice-slugs, something after the eight and sixteen to attend the The Act is not to come into effect Wilcox, & publican.

for, and the Tropical Diseases fashion of a machine-gun. When State schools. All schools within outil 1926. Its constitutionality Committee bope that other the ice slug has found lodgment the State that are run by religious will, of course, be tested in the Edward Jones, chemist, said that after Jennings had invited Colonies or Dependencies will near the root of the plant it will bodies or by private persons.are courts. The question, however,

take the matter up.

Mrs. Jones to take the chair at a meeting whereat Lady Bonbam Carter was to speak, he borrowed £10 from witness.

MASONIC PEACE MEMORIAL.

presently melt and answer the thus legislated out of existence. cannot come up until some 'con- purpose intended. In ordinary The blow is said to be aimed crete case is brought forward in methods of irrigation the greater particularly at the Roman Catho-which the validity of the Act is part of the water finds lodgment lic parochial schools. The move-involved, and the uncertainty in It has been decided by the at a distance from the plant root, ment for the bill was initiated by which the matter must remain Asked about a written message Grand Lodge of England that the and either soaks into the earth or the Scottish Rite Masons, who for the next three years must which he had received from Jen. masonic peace memorial building evaporates into the sir. The new aacounced that it was part of a necessarily be prejudicial to the nings on November 9, Jones said which is to form the headquarters plan will prevent this waste, as national effort to make the State schools concerned. he did not know what had become of English Freemasozry shall be the water will be applied just responsible for the education of erected on the Great Queen-street where it is needed. The chief all children, to the end that they

of it.

The magistrate said this state-site and not in the Adelphi. Ap- drawback to its application, it is might become better American meat was acentisfactory and left (parently £1,000,000 is to be spent suggested, will be the high cost citizens and that all distinctions

■ bad impression on the Court, on it,

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