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Manawatu Herald, 27 November 1900, Page 2

The school children are practising for an entertainment they intend giving in about three week's timo. In the tennis tournaments now taking place the following games have been played : — Miss Purcell defeated Miss Hennessy, and Miss Edith Col lin<? wns lv>nten by Miss Wank'yn ; Messrs Stilus and Hamer have also • i^iuued . ntiii- oppouuias, Messrs A. Fraser and Betty. In Chicago, at the " Swift " pork works, there are an army of clerks — six hundred men — at work in one room. The second case against James Solan (one of the Stoke cases) that of having committed a common assault on John Davis, was concluded on Friday, the jury bringing in a verdict of not guilty. On the 22nd instant there died in London, Sir Arthur Sullivan, a composer known as well in this colony as at Home, at the early age of 58 years. The urgency of getting a reliable medical man for the town and district is justly exemplified by the large number of residents who have already signified their intention to subscribe to the guarantee fund. The Foresters meet to-night at their Lodge room at 8 o'clock. Mr M. H. Walker is expecting to arrive in a few days a consignment of wall paper direct from Home. Mr Hennessy is now having the upstairs portion of his store altered to be in readiness for a large consignment of crockery and fancy glassware that he is expecting from Home, and arriving in Wellington ex Delphic in a few days. We understand that the shipment includes a splendid assortment, and will surpass anything previously Seen in Foxton. The work of " shadowing " the Duke and Duchess of York in their coming tour will; it is said, be entrusted to Detective- Inspector J. M. Christie, who performed a similar duty when the Duke of Edinburgh visited Australia and New Zealand. At Wellington last week a five-weeks-old wife summoned her husband, Charles Wilson, for failure to provide for her support. His Worship com« minted strongly on Wilson's conduct, uid ordered payment of 20s a week. • Constable Smith, of JPort Awanui, has received ti; ■ " "-"'ing message Irorn Mr T. W. Lyi • -.r, 1! Kawakawa : — "A v 1 was found on the beach above hip^-water mark with his face covered with blood on the stones under his head. He was lying on his face, and those who found him turned him over. I expect there should be an inquest, and think you had better come up at once." Lord Roberts's acceptance of the post of Commander-in-Chief of the British army (writes Mr H. W. Lucy), assures the undertaking of a long-talked-of reform. For many years he has taken a close personal interest in Lord Rowton r s iodginghouses. From the first he recognised the applicability to- barrack life of the fundamental principle of cubicle rooms, upon which these structures are based. Early last year, before there was a prospect of his going to South Africa, he went thoroughly into the matter with Lord Rowton, and came to the conclusion that, whilst the introduction of the plan into' barracks would add considerably to the moral and material comfort of the soldier, it would not in the end be more expensive than the existing system. Another high personage who has interested himself in the matter is the Prince of Wales, and H.R.H. being heartily at one with the Commander-iu Chief in the matter, early commencement of the desired change may be looked for. The new penny stamp which is to be issued on the Ist January next on the introduction of universal penny postage is described in a letter from our London correspondent. I shall be much mistaken (he says) if it is not considered one of the prettiest of all the colony's stamps. It is of the ordinary size, printed in carmine — the Postal Union colour — and bears in crescent shape formation the words " Universal Postage." Above this is a full-length female figure representing the Postal Union, a globe, and a steamship at sea, while a view of Mount Egmont f trms the background. At each corner is a star, the four forming the Southern Cross. It had been intended that the new stamp should be designed by the President of the Royal Academy, who would gladly have undertaken the task had sufficient time been allowed him. But of course it was necessary s.hat the stamp should be printed and in the colony by the end of the yepr. Messrs Waferlow's skilled designer therefore took the matter in hand, and a very successful design has been the result. An order for a first issue of 0..0 million stamps has been given. Writing to his parents in Sydenham, from Capetown i> >1 - Mr L. de la Mare snys ;— " App pence each, orange . . .: io threepence each. There • good thing here for someone to open up a market for New Zealand produce. Potatoes are fetching, for middling lots, £15 per ton, and reaching as much as £zo for good samples. Three of us here are thinking of going in for it, and we want you to give us the prices N.Z. potatoes and apples, landed at Capetown. If the prices are what we have reckoned on, we will get you to send them over. This is no place tor anyone now, as it is overdone, and will be in ne so before things are finished. People are frightened there will be a bread famine before long. No one knows when the war will be over, but we expect it to be finished by Christmas' At present there is nothing doing at Capetown ; board and lodging are too high, and likely to remain so." t