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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 8034, 6 December 1886, Page 7

Publications. NOW PUBLISHED. The Southern A L M A N A C. DIRECTORY, TEAE BOOK, A2SD DIARY FOR 188 7 , BEING THE THIRTY-FOURTH TEAE OP PUBLICATION The southebn peovinces almanac Fob, 1887 Contains a Carefully-executed MAP f the Southern Portion of the South Island, Showing the Eailway System between CHEISTCHUECH and the blupp. the southeen peovinces almanac IS A teaely encyclopaedia For Merchants, Traders, and the General Public. In everj- Department it has been moat carefully Revised, and (where possible) Improved. This issue contains A COMPLETE QOVEENMENT DIEECTOET. A Large Number of New Features have been introduced, and all the Statistical Information has been brought down to the day of publication. The Directory Matter has been constructed upon a New Plan, so as to ensure easy reference. The Garden Calendar has been carefully revised, and is admitted to be the Best Gardening Guide published in the Colony. CONTENTS: /GRICULTURAL STATISTICS Alphabetical Index to advertisements Benevolent Societies— Foresters Oddfellows Druids Eechabites (Salford Unity) Hibernians Masonic Orange Borough Councils Cab Pares Calendar Cabtaoe Hates Census Heturns Christchurch Citt Council County Councils Court Fees— District Court Magistrates' Conrt Crown Grants Customs Death 801 l foe the Year Diary and Memoranda op Eeference District Court Pees Directory—Trades, Societies, 4e. Eclipses Educational Ephemeeis Festivals, Fixed and Movable Fief. Alarm Signals Garden Calendar Government Directory • General Local Government Domain Housewife’s Table Immigration (Nominated) Industrial Association Juries Act, 1880 Justices op the Peace Land Transfer Act, 1885 Lyttelton Description Watermen's Begulations Tariff ot Charges Licensed Porters Time Ball Imports, Exports and other Statistics Directory Harbour Board Societies Magistrates’ Courts Fees Eecovery of Debt Mercantile Charges Municipalities— Christchurch Museum (Canterbury) Parliamentary Pension list of N.Z. Phenomena for the Year Postal Probatb and Administration Progruss of tie Colony Publicans’ Licenses Railway— Pares, Passenger Luggage Parcels Horses, &c. Statistics Coal Traffic Eecovery of Debt in E.M. Court Eegistration op Births, Marriages and heaths Eegistration op Deeds Bblioious Eoad Boards Salaries to Peers and Peers’ Sons Slaughter-House Licenses Stamp Duties Summary of Events Supreme Court Telegrams— Bates List of Stations Telephone Exchange Temperance Societies Good Templars Sons of Ttmperauco Timaru— Oetcription Imports and Pxports Directory Town hoards Tramway Company Vaccination Village special Settlements Wrecked Steamers and Missing Vessels Copies can ho obtained from ALL BOOKSELLERS AND COUNTRY AGENTS OF THE “ LYTTELTON TIMES ” AND CANTEEBUEY TIMES." A NEW NOVEL. The Proprietorslof THE nANTEEBDKY m HIES HE XIMES Aro able, with much pleasure, to inform their readers that they have purchased the right of first publishing a NEW NOVEL BY A NEW ZEALAND WRITER. ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13th, appeared THE OPENING CHAPTERS OF * A. Singular Ijegacy," DT E, A. LOUGHNAN. It has been with some hesitation that the Proprietors have made up their minds to face the prejudice which undoubtedly exists in New Zealand against the “ Colonial article ” in literature. The sterling merit of “ A Singular Legacy” will, however, quickly explain to its readers how this hesitation was overcome. Mr Loughuan’s position as Editor and Parliamentary Correspondent of the •• Lyttelton Times" is a guarantee as to the stylo in which his novel is written. In addition it is enough to say that “ A Singular Legacy” is a novel of plot ani incident, based on a curious fraud, followed by a deliberate and atrocious crime, and on tba detection and punishment of noth. Over and above the interest excited by its p-ot, the story has the advantage of being entirely free from the vulgarities of stylo and false drawing which repel in so many of the sensational novelettes ot the day. Mr Loughnan’s men and women ore sketched with a light hand, pleasantly hut corraotly, and they talk and move as do men and women in everyday life, A vein of genial good nature runs through the hook which will,-when read, bo admitted to easily surpass anything written by a New Zealander since Mr Farjeou stoniahed his Dunedin friends by hitting the Cnglisfa taste with "Joshua Marvel.*'