TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1907, Page 8

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS.

[dt telegraph. — ritESs association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. ' The pTOgramme has been issued for the New Zealand Championship Tennis Tournament, to do held at New Plymouth at the end of December. For flio first time there aro no handicap events, but the Taranaki Provincial Tournament will be held immediately afterwards. Wilding . and Parker have promised to attend, and efforts are being made to secure Brookes and Mies Sutton. the American lady champion, and other first-class players.

At the first meeting of tho new session of the .Wellington United Friendly Societies' Council, held in the Dispensary Board Room, Brb. A. Williams, the retiring president, presided. Ono new lodge affiliated, i.e., Loyal Newtown Lodge, 1.0.0.F.M.U., Bio. Madely being the delegate. The following officers were elected for the session 1907-1908 :—: — President, Bro. W. H. Madely, Loyal Newtown, 1.0.0.F.M.U. ; vice-presi-dent, Bro. J. F. O' Sullivan, Loyal Britannia, 1.0.0.F.M.U. j secretary' and treasurer, Bro. Chas. D. Robertson, Court Sir Geo. Bowen, A.O.F. (re-elect-ed) ; management committee, Br"o. F. Jennings, Excelsior, U.A.0.D., Bro. A. J. Bennett, Hope of Wellington, 1.0. R., Bro. A. Williams, Sons and Daughters of Temperance, Bro. H. Dormer, Antipodean, 1.0.0.F.M.U., Bro. T. Bailey, Court Robin Hood, A.O.F. Thoro is at present p, strong demand for houses in,Petone. Ono firm of land agents dealing with the class of cottago that lets at a rental of about 12s, said . the first vacancy wus always immediately "snapped up." Auother agent stated that there were tenants in plenty for cottages of from four i ooms up to six and seven rooms. The tenants in most cases were of a good class. Property sales were fairly brisk. A largo number of people, anxious to become their own landlords, were buying cottages, paying so much down, and tho balance in w-sekly Enquiries for factory sites were also increasing. '"I am confident that if thirty well-con3tructed and comfortable houses, handy 'to the town, were built, they would all be occupied within a. week," was the remark of a Hutt land and estate agent. Fashion k and society extract a heavy toll' from the blood and brain of tho toiler. It is often the frills and frivolities that extort their prico, rather than the austere, untrimmed realities of life. At the Chamber of Commerce lnet night, for instance, it was, pointed out that tho boot trade is entirely free from sweating, with 'the exception of tho making of ladies' shoes and dancing slippers. The navvy or the^ policeman in his bluchers can plod his 'heavy -footed way with an oasy conscience, but the belle of the ball, as 6he swings to the languorous lilt of the waltz, would sco pale spectres of v hnggard white fao;s and gaunt, lean frames in the starved, cold garrets of Continental slums could she glimpse througu the veil that mercifully hide** her world of light and luxury from the tinks of ihe submerged. The explosion on the Melville Island last night -aras plainly visible from the higher quarters of the city. A huge spout of flame shot up, in appearance like a miniature volcanic eruption, and lit up the harbour and the buildings round tho quays. The masts and rigging of neighbouring vosselß stood out in tho glare against the dark background of the outer harbour. The outburst of flame soon subsided, and all that ivmainod were, fitful flickers about 'the sails and yards of the misszen-inast. > To-morrow, at 2.30 p.m., Messrs. Harcourt and Co. will sell, by order of tho Registrar of tho Supreme. Court, two now 6-roomod dwellings situated in Northland, within about sovon minutes' walk of tho Tinakon-road tram route. Full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from tho auctioneer, or from Messrs. Skerrett and Wylio, solicitors. Mofsrs. A. Lindsay, Limitod, advertise a tale of boots and shoes at tho premises in Lamblgu-ftujy. aad .Qubu-vlreot.