AS WE ARE SEEN AT HOME.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 308, 27 November 1883, Page 2

AS WE ARE SEEN AT HOME.

The following items of colonial interest are culled )from ". Anglo-Australian's " letter in the latest ' European Mail '; — ■ I understand that a fresh and greatly improved edition of the well-known New | Zealand Handbook is about to appear. It . | has been edited afresh, and will contain a very good digest of all the very latest and j. most valuable facia as to governmental and. financial affairs, The book is wanted, as references of this kind in these rapidly- . moving days so soon become stale, and cv.en, in some degree, misleading. I believe lam • justified in saying that the present work will be (i in all ways, an advance on its predecessor,' and it has been compiled in a most judicious manner. It may, indeed, be said that its essential quality will be "to hold, as 't .were,. the mirrpr up to nature, .and to show the very age and body of the time his form." Such a bpok will infallibly do much practical good in 'disseminating far and wide a thorough knowledge of what the New. Zsa. . land of to-day really is. ' ' '■ ' I had the other day a good example before nje of quick cpramunication.with the Antipodes.' -J^ the' Jffice of the Agent-General for' New Zealand I sit?.' » telegram dated Christchurch, September 26th, *.! 5 U « B) " ftnd re ' ceivedia London Sep- ember 26th, y.l * m « Making due allowance for the difference in ■ time between the two points, this is pretty prompt, and certainly bringß the two Bri- 'J .tims into wonderfully close -proximity for i familiar commnnicatibn. How marked an kill uaioe it would s«/ou hare on our social rel.itions with the A-i-i : .r rt l colonies could { , Qctjan tejQgrapljy be., but mateii^Uy cheats ■ mil ■ .... i- 1