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BUSINESS NOTICES. WILL BE PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 28. "NEW ZEALAND ILLTJSTBATED." THE WEEKLY PEESS CHEISTMAS NUMBEE, 1899. STORIES BY THE LEADING AUTHORS OF THE DAY. MAGNIFICENT ILLUSTRATIO_?S OF NEW ZEALAND LIFE AND SCENERY The whole enclosed in a Handsome Coloured Wrapper of original design. COLOTJBED SUPPLEMENT GRATIS with the CHRISTMAS NUMBER will be presented a splendid COLOURED SUPPLEMENT YOUNG "NEW ZEALAND—CRICKET IN A MINING TOWN," Specially painted for the " Weekly Press" from an original photograph, and lithographed in nine colours. Intending purchasers are requested to order early through their News agents, to avoid disappointment. Press Opinions on Last Year's Christmas Number of the "Weekly Presi." From the "Photogram" (London). 1 with flowers, and the whole subject is treated The C-uistchurch Press makes a great stride » 7«T attractive fashion. It is noteworthy with its current Xmas number, and justifies *hat, as in previous years, the work has been its, claim to be one of the most consistently entirely designed and executed on the ChnsfciUustrated of all the many Annuals. Even the 5? urch ..s-'' »P r «nises. large coloured supplement "_ Maori Princess" F ™* ihe Australian Photegraphw Journal, is from a photographic origm_l by Barony, The Christmas number of the''Weekly Press' Auckland, and of the hundred and seventy- *t--<k high up in the order of -tcellence four illustrations in the text, every one is a amongst the several[holiday publications. Sel-half-tone, from a photographic original. The dom, indeed, has the examination of an illuswhole production of the issue is local and is tjatcd journal given us greater pleasure. From a wonderful example ol the enterprise of the the front page of the cover, which is a coloured ■m__ 7.ainr,<l_Tß representation of some New Zealand birds, to iSew -ealanoers. -~',,,, the last page of advertisements, the illustraFrom "The Photo-Miniature (New York). tioas __ c _- d M wocka ot The letterThe photographers and process-workers of press consists of short stories by such wellAustralasia are so far removed from the pulse known writers as H. G. Wells, Conan Doyle, of American progre.3 that their work has many _. J. Cutcliffe Hyne and Justin McCarthy, but features indigenous to the soil. Time was, and tho chief interest centres in the articles deonly a very few years ago, when A-stralian scriptive of New Zealand; Mr Malcolm Boss work bore a distinct stamp of groping in- contributes "The Northern Alps of New Zeaexperience, but tha workers have been men of land" and "Down the Wanganui River,'' and ability, and they have raised their work to _£_ Salter Burke "Three Weeks on a Golden a position with the best. We have just re- Coast." All these are profusely illustrated oeived a copy of tho Christmas number of the with excellent half-tones from photographs by Christchnrch (N.Z.) "Weekly Press," which the authors, who are. both prominent phototakes more the form of a high-class illustrated graphers as well as experienced authors, than a mere news sheet. It contains a descrip- Taken altogether, the number is one that must tion of a visit to gold-fields in New Zealand, add to our knowledge of New Zealand and written and illustrated by Walter _>urke, a stimulate a desire to visit the scenes so forphotographer whose work has for years been .ibly described and beautifully pictured. From "The.Practical Pbotographe,'' so judiciously selected that in a glance at • • • A splendid illustrated sheet containing them one seems to grasp the entire spirit of excellent articles and fine illustration- of charthe land, its works, and inhabitants. Mr acteristic scenery in New _e_la_d. We have Burke adopts the American plan of putting not seen anything so Interesting for a long full explanatory notes, where needful, under time as this pictorial magazine, each picture. Throughout the sheet, indeed, From "The Norwich Mercury." the illustrations indicate careful editing, not FtQm oth „ _ ide oJ tho globe hu f^^ one of the numerous cuts appearing to be u _ a _ otewort hy production, associated with superfluous. ..,-,. the work of a Norwich man, in the shape of From "The British Printer.' a special Christmas number of the OhristThe Christchurch Press Co., Ltd., New Zea- church "Weekly Proas" (New Zealand). A land, produce an excellent Christmas issue of feature of it is a really beautifully executed their "Weakly Press." Forty-four pages of picture supplement, in colour, of » Maori matter of an excellent quality, admirably illus- Princess, sketched from a photograph by trated by half-tone cuts, and enclosed in hand- Sarony, by Mr Phil. R. Presants, a Norwich some cover, comprise-.* thoroughly up-to-date artist, who recently emigrated' to New Zeaand workmanlike production. A supplement, land. 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