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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1921, 2 December 1913, Page 5

Sympathy will bo felt for Mrs, H. N. Fletcher in the loss of her husband, whose death took place on Sunday in tho Wellington Hospital, Mr. Fletcher will bo greatly missed in musical circlcs. 110 had a particularly sweettoned, light tenor, voice, mid always gave songs that were suited to his range and quality. He was the second tenor in the Orpheus Male Quartet, which has appeared so often and so successfully during tho past year. Mr. Fletcher was a member of the Savage Club p.ntl of tho Masonic fraternity Ho was to have played a part in 'Tho Geisha" this week with tho Wellington Ainatour Operatic Society (of whicn body ho was a committeeman), but illness compelled him to relinquish tho role for which ho was cast. For some years Mr. Fletcher had been a member of. tho staff of the Ocean Accident Insuranco Company in Wellington. I'e leaves two daughters.

When the first issue of now Australian stamps, bearing the King's head instead of a kangaroo, are placed on salo no person will he permit-ted to pa:dm so more than six at any one timn. The reason for this restrietioii is that the postal authorities anticipate a rush hv philatelists for the first specimens of t?» new design, and s.s it is intencled to print only a million at the beginning, every effort is to he made to distribute this limited supply as widely as possible. The Postmaster-Oner:)! (Mr. Agar Wynne) lias directed that the preliminary million are to be made available in each State on a po|>ulnti.i;i basis. About <150,000,000 ponnv stamps are used every year in the Commonwealth, but owing to fiso pressure on tlio printing branch of the KedeHl Note Department it will be quite impossible to overtake the ordinary busisiejm demand for the new design of stamps for many months.