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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5846, 24 December 1879, Page 4

Publications Shortly will be Publisher), rjpHE WELLINGTON ALMANACK, DIRECTORY, CALENDAR, AND DIAKY, FOR 1880. TWENTY-SIXTH YEAPv OF 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 ports 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— With high water table'and diary; also Jewish calendar. The Official Directory comprises the Governor's establishment; tire 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, 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, plonting and sowing, greenhouses, weighing hay or cattle, &o. Valuable, with most explicit instructions. Wills. —Under this Reading will be found some useful hints, with a form of will which may be used to avoid the evils of intestacy ; also particulars concerning probate and administration. Legal, —Table of fees payable in Supreme, District, and Resident Magistrate’s Courts, date of circuit sittings, sittings in bankruptcy, in banco, and in chambers, holidays and vacations, Court officials. Public Institutions, Societies, &c. —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. Miscellaneous : Scale of charges adopted by Chamber of Commerce on sales and purchases, shipping, commission, and general agency, re-exchange and charges Table ot 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 —1878-79 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 GLASS. HRICB—TWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE. In the Press, AND SHORTLY TO BE PUBLISHED (Under the auspices of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited), rjp HE NEW ZEALAND TOURIST A Guide and Handbook for Yistors to the Colony, with Maps and Illustrations. PRICE—ONE SHILLING. BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. Sold by J. WATT, WILLIS-STREET. Farrar’s Life and Work of St. Paul, 2 vols., Bvo., 27s 6d The Globe Encyclopedia, edited by John M. Ross, in 6 vols. half-calf, £6 Chambers’ Encvclopaidia, 10 vols., half-calf, £6 10s. Chambers’ Information, 2 vols., half-calf, £1 6s Chambers’ English Literature, 2 vols., £1 10s Dictionary of Illustrations, adapted toChristian teaching, 17s 6d Bagster’s Scripture Treasury, 13s 6d George Moore, by Smiles, 7s 6d Poganuc People, by Mr. Stowe, 7s 6d Theodosia Ernest, the Heroine of Faith, 3s J. Watt has a large stock of Teachers’ Bibles. Hymns Ancient and Modern, Wesley’s Hymns, Presbyterian Hymns, Congregational Hymn Books, all iu plain and handsome bindings; Church Services and Common Prayer in endless yariety and styles. New t Season’s CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR’S CARDS. Children’s Toy Books, in plain and elaborate bindings Photographic Albums,, clearing out at a great reduction. The following New Serials, just arrived : The Boy’s Own Annual, edited by Dr. Macaulay, of the Leisure Hour, 7s 6d and 9s Rontledge’s Every Boy’s Annual, 7s 6d Routledge’s Every Girl’s Annual, 7s Od Chatterbox, 4s and Os 6d Kind Words, 4s and 5s 6d Little Wide Awake, 4s and Os Child’s Companion, 2s and 2s Od Child’s Own Magazine, Is Od Family Herald Supplements, vols. 1 and 2, each 3s 6d J. WAT T, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, Willis-street, Has on hand a large stock of Ledgers, Day Books, Memo. Books, School Stationery, &c., &e.