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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 34, 9 February 1903, Page 3

The most compact, comprehensive and useful tourists' guide for its size ancl price is the "Itinerary of Travel," recently published at a penny by the New Zealand Tourist Department. All the trips in the colony are tabulated in admirable fashion in the well-printed booklet of CO pages, and many attractive new round trips are suggested. The book is arranged in tabular form, giving the distances from place to place, the services and fares, with concise remarks where advice is needful. Not only are the long excursions dealt with, but short "side trips" from principal centres as well, so that the book is useful to stay-at-home colonists, as well as tourists. Particulars of the game season, deer stalking, and forests, protected game, fishing seasons and streams, coach aud steamer proprietors, sanatorium charges, a map of the colony, and memo, pages are also crowded into the useful little publication, which is indispensable to holiday-makers by reason of its completeness and reliability, and the facility with which it can be consulted. The Imperial and Royal Austro-Hun-garian Consulate at Sydney has been changed from an honorary office to a professional Consulate-Ceneral, and Otto Prieherr yon Iloenning-O'Caroll appointed Consul-General for Australasia, Dr. August Schiedel, Honorary Consul, retiring from his office. The jurisdiction of the newly established Consuhtte-General includes New South Wales and Queensland. The other Consulates in Australia and New Zealand, as well as all those which in future may be established in these countries, and the adjoining islands, are now placed under the new Consulate-General. The establishment of this new office is mainly due to tlie growing commercial relations between Australasia and Aus- . tria.

The number of train miles in New South Wales is 3042}, while the tram mileage is only 120 A. But in the quarter just ended the trains ran 2,959,4G3 miles, while the trams did 3,319,713. Moreover the trams carried four times the number of passengers, viz., 33,121,461, while the railways could only boast of 8,397,490. But the train beat the tram in the amount earned per mile; in the former case it was 2/, while in the latter it reached only 1/Is.