Contents of the New Zealand Handbook.

Bruce Herald, Volume VII, Issue 616, 21 July 1874, Page 3

Contents of the New Zealand Handbook.

+ The contents of * The New Zealand Handbook," of which the Premier is the editor, and which is to be published shortly iv England, are thus described in the proof copies printed here, and placed on the tables of the Houses of Assembly : — " Introduction/ by the editor ; " Discovery and Early Settlement of the Colony," by the Hon. W. Fox, M.H.R. ; "The Native Race," by the Hon. D. M'Lean, C.M.G-., M.H.R., Native Minister ; " Present Form of Government," by the Hon. W. Gisborne, Commissioner of Annuities ; " Climato, and Mineral and Agricultural Resources," by Dr Hector, Colonial Geologist • " Animal and Vegetable Productions," by Mr Travers; " Some of the Institutions of the Colony, also, Notes, Statistical, Commercial, and Industrial," by Mr "Woodward, Public Trustee ; " Latest Statistics," by Mr Brown, RegistrarGeneral ; Mr Batkin, Secretary to the Treasury; Mr Sped. Secretary to tho Customs ; " Public Works Department," by Mr Knowles, Under Secretary for Public Works ; " Immigration' Department," by Mr Haughton. Undersecretary f.ir Immigration • " Official Director}*," by Mr Cooper, the Under Secrerary. The articles descriptive of the provinces are stated to have been furnished by the Superintendents, and to have been prepared — in Otago, by Mr M'lndoe ; in Canterbury, by Mr W. M. Maskell; in Westland, by Mr J. Driscoll ; in Nelson, by Mr C. Elliott; in Wellington, by Mr Henry Anderson — the Manchester Settlement, by 'Mr A. F. Halcombe ; in Hawke's Bay, by Mr N. W. Carlile ; in Taranaki, by Mr C. D. Whitcombe ; in Auckland, by the Rev. R. Kidd, L.L.D., assisted by Mr T. W. Leys.