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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1089, 15 July 1873, Page 4

EST COA ST ALM ANA C FOE 1873. OPINIONS OF THE PIiESS. NELSON COLONIST. • We have received a copy of Messrs Held 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 " get-up" is very creditable, and this the fifth yearly publication of work, is even better than the good ones that preceded it. NELSON EXAMINER. We have received a copy of the " West Coast Almanac and Directory for 1873," published at Westport and Greymouth by Beid and Co. Besides the calendar, it contains about 180 7>ages 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. So 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 that we have yet seen produced on the Coast. 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 preparation of the work ware done by Beid and Co., of Westport, but the contents are apparently made applicable to general use on the West Coast, or in similar mining districts." LYTTELTON TIMES. The " West Coast Almanac," for 1873, has been issued by Messrs Eeid and Co., of Westport, Greymouth, and Charleston. It is decidedly well got up in every resoect, and contains a largo amount of useful information in convenient form. INANUAHUA HERALD. This is the fifth year of publication, and each succeeding volume appears to be a considerable improvement upon its predecessor. As a hand-bood of useful information appertaining to the portion of the Colony where it is intended to circulate, its usefulness cannot be over-estiuiated, while in its general information the " West Coast Almanac" will not bear unfavorable comparison wilu any r or the more pretentious almanacs published in the colony. GREY VALLEY TIMES. We have received a copy of the "West Coast Almanac and Directory for 1873," published by Beid 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 issued from the AVest Coast press. ROSS UUARDTAN. 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 Beid and Co., of Westport and Greymouth, are the printers, and as a specimen of typography, it does them infinite credit. TIMARU HERALD. We have to thank the publishers, Messrs Beid and Co., of Westport and Grejimouth, for a copy of the West Coast Almanac: for 1573. The almanac, beyond containing the usual useful information of such publications, has much matter of interest bearing exclusively on the West Coast goldfields. OTAGO DAILY TIMES. We have received a copy of the West Coast Almanac and Directory for 1573, published at Westport by Messrs Beid and Co. It contains a quantity of information, both of a local and a general character, and is well printed throughout. WANGANUI HERALD. We have received from Messrs Beid and Co. a copy of the West Coast Almanac for 1873. The book is compiled particularly for a gold digging population, containing every information pertaining to that branch of industry. An excellent directory of the townships 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. This work contains in addition to some very useful tables, a Westland Directory, Farm and Garden operations, The Mining Companies Liabilities Acl, digests of the Nelson Licensing Acts, and Westland Public House Ordinances. Useful Law Items, a Telegraphic. Guide, Items from the Stamp Acts, West Coast Statistics. and other useful information. Times Otl'ce, Westport.