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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1055, 18 March 1873, Page 4

NOW READY, EST COAST ALMANAC FOR 1873. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. NELSON COLONIST. We have received a copy of Messrs Reid and Co.'s almanac for 1873, and can fairly recommend it as containing a large amount of useful information, specially selected for the trading and mining communities of the Coast, and therefore valuable for reference everywhere. The type, arrangement, and general "getup" is very creditable, and this the fifth yearly publication cf work, is even better*, than the good ones that preceded it. NELSON EXAMINEE. We have received a copy of the " West Coast Almanac and Directory for 1873," published at Westport and Greymouth by Reid and Co. Besides the calendar, it contains about 180 pages of information of a highly useful and varied character, including a full directory for the West Coast towns, rolls for the different electoral districts, mercantile and mining statistics, and much general intelligence useful and complete is the work, that it must prove highly serviceable to all persons having business with the West Coast, or seeking information in respect to it. "WEST COAST TIMES. It is excellently compiled, and will be found to be a valuable book of reference on many local matters of interest. In alluding to the Almanac for 1871 the same paper says:—The almanac is one of the most admirably compiled issues of the kind chat we have yet seeu produced on the ("oast. Besides the usual calendar there are 150 pages of mining, mercantile, and other information, besides any number of tables, " useful hints," and such items as constitute that valuable volume "Inquire Within." The paper and letter-press are in keeping with the excellence of the production otherwise. The printing and pre aratton of the work wore done by Retu and Co., of Westport, but the contents are apparently made applicable to general use on the West Coast, or in similar mining districts." INANGAIIUA HERALD. This is the fifth year of publication, and each succeeding volume appears to be a considerable improvement upon its predecessor. As a hand hood ol useful information appertaining to the portion of the Colony where it is intended to civulale, its usefulness cannot be over-estimated, while in its general information the " West Coast Almanac" will not bear unfavorable teutious almanacs published in the colony. GREY YALLEY TIMES. We have received a copy of the " West Coast Almanac and Directory for 1873," published by Reid and Co., Westport and Greymouth. This work has now attained the fifth year of publication, and the present edition is one of the best publications of the kind ROSS GUARDtAN. It is quite a thick volume, and contains upwards of 200 pages of reading matter, from which a fund of useful information may be gleaned. Messrs Ueid. and Co., of Westport ami Greymouth, are the printers, and as a specimen _ of typography, it does them infinite credit. LYTTELTON TIMES. The " West Coast Almanac," for 1873, has been issued by Messrs Reid and Co , of Westport, Greymouth, and Charleston. It is decidedly \*eli got up in even resicct, and contains a large amount of useful information in convenient fcm. TIMARU HERALD. We have to thank the publishers, Messrs Reid and Co., of Westport and (J rev mouth, tor a copy of the West Coast Almanac for 1873" The almanac, beyond containing the usual useful information of such publications, has much matter of interest bearing exclusively on the West Coast golufields. OTAGO DAILY TIMES. We have • received a copy of the West Coast Almanac and Directory for 1873, published at Westport by Messrs Reid and Co. It contains a quantity of information, both of a local and a eeneral character, and is well printed throughout. WANGANUI HERALD. We have received from Messrs Reid and Co. a copy of the West Coast Almanac for 1873. The book is com piled particularly for a gold digging population, containing every information pertaining to that branch of industry An excellent directory of the tovynships on the coast is given, also much of the matter usually found in works of a similar kind. The typographical portion of the work is most excellent, while the advertising support given to the book is full commensurate with its merits. BOSS NEWS. This work contains in addition to some very useful lables, a Westland Directory, Farm and Garden operations. The Mining Companies Liabilities Act, digests of the Nelson Licensing Acts, and Westland Public House Ordinances, Useful Law Items, a Telegraphic Guide, Items'from the StatnD Acts, West Coast Statistics and other useful information. Times Office, Westport.