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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 4, 5 January 1900, Page 4

NO ADVANCE. DESPITE the enormously increased price of wool, and the consequent rise in cost of all Woollen Manufacture, we aro selling our splendid stock of LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S HOSE At tho game Low Price that prevailed bfore tho riso. * PLAIN AND RIBBED BLACK CASHMERE HOSE. Is, Is 3d, Is 9<l, Is lid per pair. LACE AND EMBROIDERED LISLE AND CASHMERE HOSE. From Is 9d por pair. STERLING VALUE IN EVERY LINE". TE AR O~H O U S E DRAPERY CO.. Ltd. KIRKCALDIE & STAINS. LADIES' GLOVE DEPARTMENT. NEW SHIPMENTS JUST OPENED, In response to cabled orders. WHITE WASHING DOESKIN GLOVES, Self and Black Stitobings, 2/6 2/11 3/6 pait - CHILDREN'S WHITE WASHING DOESKIN GLOVES, 2/- Pair - WHITE KNITTED SILKETTE GLOVES, Cool tor Summer Wear. 1/- 1/2 1/6 **• ERNEST CALVAT'S GLOVES, in all sizes and shades, only to be procured at KIRKCALDIJi! & STAINS', 4/6 5/- 5/9 616 p^ THE "CO WES" KID GLOVES, 2/11 \ »— The Best Value and most reliable-fitting Glove in this market, in Tans, Browns, Fawns, and Slates. THE PREMIER GLOVE ESTABLISHMENT KIRKOALDIE & STAINS » FLOWER HOLDERS. WHITE CHINA FLOWER HOLDERS AND IRIDESCENT SPECIMEN GLASSES, For Table Decoration. A splendid assortment just opened. BAMBOO TABLES, TEA SETS, CUPS & SAUCERS. A fresh Bhipment just landed, Direot from Japan. ART NEEDLEWORK. The only complete stock of all requirements is to bo had at PRINGLE'S, THE ART NEEDLEWORK DEPOT, 69, LAMBTON-QUAY. JW. BRIDGE, • DI'JNTIST, Upper Willis-street, Mr. Bridge having returned from holiday has resumed practice. Artificial Tebth.— Thoroughly up-to-date Dentures inserted at most moderate charges. Tbe old style of Dentures supplied to those requiring them at remarkably low rates. TO CORRESPONDENTS. "British."— Your visitor does not deserve the benefit of living in iv free country, " Fitv." — Insufficient public interest, "fi.D." (Tbo Song of tho Contingent) .—Declined with thanks. " Maxim." — According to the State Almanao, the population of the Transvaal in 1898 was— Whites, 345,397 ; nal i yes, 748,759. The last census takeu in the Orange Free State was in 1891, when the white population was found to be 77,716; natives, 120,787. The following facts taken from an article entitled " The Inevitable in South Afrioa" in the October number of the Contemporary are based on official and commercial data. The white population of South Africa is now at least 820.000, of whom 431,600 are Dutch :— Cape Colony with Bechuanaland. 265,200 Dutch, 19*,800 English ; Basutoland, 300, 350 1 Orange Free State, 78,100, 15,600 ; Natal, with Zululand, 6500, 45.500 j Transvaal. 80,000, 123,050 1 Ehodesia, 1500, 8500. " English " means non-Dutch Europeans. Particulars of the total British force now in South Africa and to arrive will be found in our iaaue (" Progress of the War") of 27th ult. W. J. Beardon.— The information you require will be fouud above. H. Young.— Answered in our issue of Saturday last.