1851} OTAGO WITNESS{ 1899

Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 33

1851 } OTAGO WITNESS{ 1899

Teems of Subscription (including postage), Payable in Advance :—: — Australia* and South Sea Islands — Twelve Months £1 7 6 British and Foteign— Twelve Months ... 1 14 0 'Except Queensland, £1 14 a per annum. In New Zealand. Quwter 0 7 0 Six Months 0 13 0 Twelve Months 15 0 ISEW POSTAGE HATES. To any place within the colony, id. To Australian colonies and South Sea Islands, Id— Queensland excepted, the postage on papers going ther« beiDg 2Jd. To Great Britain, other Biitish possessions, and all foreign countries, 2Jd. Remittance I<y Cheque, Money Order, or Postal Notes. If Cheque sent 6'd exchange must be added. Money Orders payable to GEORGE FENWICK, Managing Director.

—In England last year nearly 750,000 letters wore so illegibly dated and addressed that they could neither be delivered nor .returned. The letters undelivered for one rea- , son or another, but returned safely to the writer*, were very numerous, and they had inclosurea, in all, of value considerably over £500,000. — The Berlin Guild of Barbers has issued a broadside against employees aud apprentices wearing close-cropped hair. At a recent meeting of the Guild it was declared, upon the suggestion of a member, that a young hairdresser " ought not to havo his own hair dressed after the fashion of a rat, but to exhibit a tasteful aud scrupulously careful appearance."