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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 238, 7 October 1891, Page 7

The 1892 edition of " Brett's Auckland Almanac, Provincial Handbook and Diary" is now in the press, and tho attention oil advertisers ia drawn by the publisher Co a valuable new feature which has been introduced. It is intended to oxtend the diary sections of fahe book to fifty-six pages, and to print these upon a fcood writing paper. This addition will make tho book servo all the purposes of a business diary, contain*ing almanac, diary and commercial textbook in one. The Customs, statistical, oilicial and general information will, as heretofore, be complete and carefully revised. The tide tables have been calculated upon the system employed at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in compiling the British Nautical Almanac, and their accuracy has secured the general adoption of these tables by shipmaster on tho New Zcuiami coast. The additions to the Diary will not circumacribo in any respect i:ho other featured of tho book. Tho descriptive account! of the Provincial District of Auckland ia being re-written by competent writers, who are travelling, throughout thu districts described and noting the advances made in settlement ia every direction. Thia account of tho products, tradoand resources of the Auckland Provincial District—its climate, scenery, mountains, harbours, rivers, and lakes ; its forests and it 3 plains ; its cultivated aud its waste lands—especially adapt the book for aendicg to friends and business clients abroad. As the book has now become a work of daily reference in the home of evary settler throughout! the province, and is in use in all public oflicea throughout fche colony, aud in many leading places abroad, ib may with confidence be described as the best permanent medium of advertising offered to business men. The work will be issued ab the old pr'ce—one shilling.