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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5835, 11 December 1879, Page 4

Publications Shortly will be Published, rjIHE WELLINGTON ALMANACK, DIRECTORY, CALENDAR, AND DIAKY, FOR 1880. TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR or PUBLICATION. CONTENTS: Nautical. —Ephemeris for 1880; the sailing directions for the whole of the New Zealand coast, the Chatham Islands, and the port of Newcastle, N.S.W., are fully given, with the latest notifications of the Marine Board ; general signals in use at all the ports of New Zealand; charges leviable on shipping at porta of Wellington, Wanganui, and Manawatu ; high water constants ; New Zealand mean time ; rule of the road at sea ; shipping list of vessels belonging to Wellington, with rig and tonnage ; list of Union Steam Shipping Company’s steamers, with tonnage, code signals, and name of master ; also of Anchor Line of steamers ; list of ships sailing under the flag of the New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw, Savill, and Co., with tonnage, number, and code. Calendar —Withhigh water tablejandldiary; also Jewish calendar. The Official Directory comprises the Governor's establishment; the Cabinet, the members of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives ; General Government officials in connection with Public Works, the Treasury, Stamps, Audit, Post Office, Telegraph, Customs, Marine, Native and Defence, Crown Lands, Goldfields, Education, Immigration, Land Claims, Surveys, Registration, Printing, and Insurance. The directory of the General Government in the various provincial districts contains a list of Supreme and District Court Judges, Sheriffs, Crown Solicitors and Prosecutors, Resident Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, Clerks of District Courts, Coroners, Returning Officers, Foreign Consuls, &c., &c,, &c. City Directory. —To ensure accuracy: every street and thoroughfare is being canvassed from house to house. Country Directory. —Different persons in different districts have undertaken this work, and every effort is being made to secure accuracy. Farm and Garden.— Comprehensive gardeners’ calendar; botanical names of English grasses ; number of plants required to an acre; how to sow seeds of various kinds ; germination of agricultural, vegetable, and flower seeds; hints on forming and laying out gardens, grafting, manuring, planting and sowing, greenhouses, weighing hay or cattle, &c. Valuable, with most explicit instructions. Wills. —Under this heading will be found some useful hints, with a form of will which may be used to avoid tha evils of intestacy ; also particulars concerning probate and administration. Postal. —The postal information comprises a list of the Wellington country post offices and postmasters ; the day and hour of mails closing for country districts ; information regarding the delivery of letters, letters unclaimed, registered letters, sailors’ and soldiers’ do, and rates of postage beyond the colony ; post cards, newspaper, book post, pattern and sample post, articles not allowed to go through the post, &c. ; particulars concerning Post Office Savings Bank ; list of money order offices throughout the colony, and commission charged on money orders for various amounts. Telegraphic. —The regulations of the telegraph are given in full, with a list of stations in New Zealand, Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, and Tasmania ; examples, giving, the wording and charging of telegrams to Australia and London are added; also particulars regarding urgent, delayed, stamped, and weather telegrams. Customs Duties, Custom House tables, and information as to passing entries. Astronomical. —Ephemeris, eclipses,chronological notes, &c., for 1880. Legal. —Table of fees payable in Supreme, District, and ’ Resident Magistrate’s j Courts, date of circuit sittings, sittings in bankruptcy, in banco, and in chambers, holidays and vacations, Court officials. Public Institutions, Societies, &o. —This comprises a list of banks, shipping, and insurance companies; loan, land, and building societies; Masonic, Odd Fellows, Foresters, Shepherds, Good Templar; and Rechabite Lodges ; churches of all denominations, and the various associations, societies, : clubs, &c., in the city. The office-bearers in connection with each are also given. Government Offices.— A directory, carefully corrected, is given of the occupiers of the various rooms on each floor. Statistics. Several carefully compiled tables of colonial statistics. Miscellaneous-: Scale of charges adopted by Chamber of Commerce ' on sales and purchases, * shipping, Commission, and-general agency, re-exchange and charges Table of distances from place to place in New Zealand Stamp duties and exemptions Registration ' Registration, of births, marriages, and deaths ' ' Registration on electoral rolls Registration of deeds Registration of dogs Emigration English mail time tables European and New Zealand mean time Express waggon charges Housekeeper’s ready reckoner Income table Itinerary Meteorological notes Memorabilia—lß7B-79 Plan of Queen’s wharf Queen’s wharf,, scale of charges Hackney carriage fares Boatmen’s fares Cart charges SEVERAL PAGES CONTAINING ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERY CLASS. PRICETWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE. ALMANACK, 1880. Managers or Secretaries who are desirous that the Companies, Societies, Clubs, or Lodges with whom they are connected should be published in the Directory ot “ Public Institutions,” are requested to send list of officebearers without delay to office of this paper. N OTICE TO THE PUBLIC. All Persons who have Changed their Place of Residence since the City was canvassed, and who are desirous of their name and residence being correctly given in the “ Wellington -Almanac” for 1880, will please send word or call at this office to make the necessary alteration. This must be done at once, or the publishers will not be responsible for errors. In the Press, AND SHORTLY TO BE PUBLISHED (Under the auspices of the Union'Steam Ship ■ Company of New Zealand, Limited), ■rjlHE NEW ZEALAND TOURIST A Guide'and Handbook for Vistors to the Colony, with Maps and Illustrations. ERiqE—one; sb^i^ing.