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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 86, 31 December 1887, Page 2

Mr Harry Lillywhlte has been Interviewed in New York on the subjeot of lawn tennis. Mr Lillywhite, though very properly holding that erieket will uiways be the national game in Engand, admits that lawn tennis is just as popular. His account of the growth of tennis is interesting. Six years ago be was proprietor of six tennis courts in Brighton. They were for the use of the public; each player paying Is forone hour's privilege. Very soon people began to realise that tennis was a good exercise; as well as being a fashionable one ; and nearly all the best people took to it. The next season Mr Lillywhita went there he found new Courts about him in several places. Now within a radius of a mile there are fully 150 public courts, besides the courts used by private parties. Mr Lillywhiie says the game has grown, aud is still growing more than any oiher sport has been known to grow. The “ Bay of Plenty Times ” says ; “ The present is a bad time, for the the dairy farmer especially. Probably never before has dairy produce been at such a low ebb. In Australiaaud the South Island wholesale prices are down to 4d and 5d for butter, and this season of the year there is little prospect of any improvement. At such a jdneture a most important piece of news cornea from Manawatu. From that district a shipment of butter and cheese was sent home, aud the results are highly satisfactory. he butter realised I l|d per lb in London, giving the producers, free of charge, 9d per lb L'he cheese realised 60s per ewt, or 5d net per lb to the exporter. There is every prospect of these prices being maintained for a time for a really good article. This points to the London market as the outlet which will relieve the dairy farmer. In the cool chamber of the direct steamers butter and cheese can be sent with safety.”