LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160796, 2 November 1920, Page 9

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The,cup now on view in the “Herald” window is the cup donated by Mr Lampe as a trophy for the senior grade-local tennis clubs’ competition. iThe cup will be competed for (his year and will in the future prove a valuable history of the game in our town. The Wanganui Lawn Tennis Association has-decided to make the fostering of tennis In our local schools one of its chief objects. With this end: In view the Association has/der cided to inylte a /deputation of" Wanganui schoolmasters to discuss a plan of action for the coming tennis season. The huge neet- of German sailing ships whieb were in Chilian waters at the commencement of rite war (states the • Mercantile Guardian of August 21st) still remains at its original anchorage. Instructions were Deceived ‘ from tee German Government to get the ships ready for the voyage home to surrender, but rhere was difficulty in getting sailors to man teem, because wages on steamers are much better, and consequently sailors are unwilling to undergo the hardship and monotony of long voyages in sailing ships. The barometer of tourist traffic in New Zealand is at “set fair” for tee coming season. Already the number of tourisms passing through the Government Bureaux indicates a-busy period for hotels and boardinghouses throughout the Dominion. Indeed, lack of accommodation bids' fair to be a redoubtable problem for the next five months. Seventy-five per cent, of those who pass through the Government Bureaux are New Zealanders, and most of the rest from Australia, with a sprinkling from the Homeland and elsewhere. Many -are making an early tour this year in order to avoid the Christmas rush. Next mouth the full tide is expected. and from then until" March there will be no slackening. Tennis enthusiasts of Wanganui and surrounding districts will be glad to hear that the N.Z. Lawn Tennis Association has favoured 'Wanganui by arranging for the visiting New South Wales championship tennis team to play a match in Wanganui .on the 22nd December, against a representative team selected from Manawatu,' Wanganui and Taranaki. The visitors will be»the six best players of New South Wales and will include players who will almost certainly be chosen in the Davis Cup matches. It Is Intended that the visitors will play exhibition games against each other in addition to the match. The Postmaster-General announces that a class of telegram known as a night-letter telegram was Introduced oh the Ist Inst. The rate fixed “for such telegram is 1/6 for the first 36 words or fraction thereof and %d for each in excess of that number, A letter telegram will be accepted for transmission between any two telegraph offices In the Dominion, but will" be subject to a number of restrictions not imposed on -ordinary telegrams;The chief restrictions are: (1) The message must be lodged at least one hour before the time of closing of the office of origin or destination, whichever is the earlier; (2) N the text must be written in plain English language; (3) upon arrival at the office of destination it will be: held until closing time and then treated as a letter being delivered by the first postman’s delivery, next morning. Those addressed to private boxes will be placed therein when the first morning clearance of posting boxes Is made. In no circumstances will a night letter telegram be delivered bn the day of lodgment.