NEW ISSUES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2823, 22 April 1908, Page 66

NEW ISSUES.

Austria. — Tho Imperial Jubilee stamps are (bus described by the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph :— The .new series of 18 stamps printed m commemoration of the Emperor's Jubilee is now on public exhibition. A glance is sufficient to show the prodigious amount of labour which has been expended upon them. They recall the last epochs of the history of Austria. The values from one to 20 heller show portraits of the immediate predecessors of the Emperor Francis Joseph— Karl VI. Maria Theresa, Joseph 11, Leopold 11, Francis %J and Ferdinand. j- he stamps of five, 10, and 25 heller display pictures of the present monarch m profile. The 30-hcller stamp is extremely interesting, as it .shows his "Majesty at the time of his accession m 1848, when he was m his eighteenth year. The other stamps give full-length portrait* of his Majesty. On the 50-heJler he is m general's uniform, and on the 60-hdler on horseback. On the one krone stamp the Emperor wears the Order of the Golden Fleece, and the two-kronen show the entrance to Schonbrunn and pert of the Hofburg. The actual jubilee stamp is the 10-kronen, with the dates 18*8-1908, with a full-face portrait of his Majesty, executed with life-like fidelity, although the Emperor has always refused to be photographed m this manner. The poritraiits of former Emperors are copied with slight variations from the great family picture gallery. Cayman Islands stamps will m future bear the words " Postage and Revenue," instead of only "Postage." Halfpenny and Id ©tamps of this kind have recently been supplied, but there has been no change of colour or paper. Two new values— i.e., 3d and 10s,— will be issued shortly, and a change of the colours cf the other stamns of the series is under consideration. No change, of course, will be made m the 2_d value.-^-00-onial Office Journal. Bosnia.— lt is announced that the new stamps of this country are to be ehanaed because the Bosnians, who are df Slav origin, are protesting against the u6e of the German language on these stamps. Maldive' Islands.— The Postmaster of Mah "iY*. informs, us under date of January 8, 1908; that the surcharged Ceylon stamps are no longer to-be issued; and that the ' Maldivian Government has proposed to strike entirely new stamps of its, own." We shall thus have a new issue for these islands before long, but as to where they are gomt? to be manufactured we have no information.-