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New Zealand Mail, Issue 780, 11 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

I TltT I ' TJ ‘ ragTOV AND MAN AW AT U RAILWAY COMPANY, LIMITS TIME TABftE. ON AND AFTER Ist DECEMBER, 1886. NORTH.SOUTH. * Stations. —Passengers wishing to alight must give notice to the Guard at the pre«)U S can°be booked to principal Stations on Foxton and New Plymouth line at. ellington and Johnsonville. JAMES WAMjAOBi Wellington, Ist December, 1886.

NOTICE. CHOICE LITERATURE; FOR TKK' NEW ZEALAND MAIL. WE have pleasure in announcing an arrangement we have made with an English publishing house for the supply of a series of short serials for the New Zealand Mail,. By (he Eminent Novelists — OUIDA, WILLIAM BLACK, MRS OLIPHANT, THOMAS HARDY* WILKIE COLLINS, JOSEPH HATTON, HUGH CONWAY*. RHODA BROUGHTON. These pleasant stories will each run through, from three to five issues of the Mail, and we think will be more acceptable to our readers than the long serials we have hitherto published. The opening chapters of a new story appear in this week’s Mail, entitled DON GESUALDO. A SKETCH BY OUIDA. | Author of ‘ Under Two Flags.’ ‘ Two Little Wooden Shoes,’ &c.

WELLINGTON ALMANACK, 1887. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION. CIRCULATION, 5000. THIS Almanack is now published, and has left the printer’s hands the most useful and complete of its kind in the Colony. . The following is a Synopsis of the W The Calendar, Sailing Directions, Addenda to the New Zealand Pilot, Nautical Almanack, and other useful nautical information ; Chronological Landmarks ; Gardener’s Calendar, and several pages of useful gardening and agricultural information besides ; An* tidotes for Poisons ; Complete Ready Reckoner Interest and Wages Tables; Weights 'and Measures ; Stockbreeders’ Guide; several pages ot Household Receipts and Domestic Emergencies; How to Draw Wills; Duties on Estates ; Probate and Administration; Slaughterhouse Licenses; Stamp Duties; the Juries Act; Court Fees—Supreme, District, and K.M.. ; list of New Zealand Governors; the fullest Telegraphic and Post Office information ; Customs Tariff, and ral Customhouse information; the Fencing Act; the Impounding Act; Official Directory— New Zealand and Wellington ; Travellers’ Guide to the Wellington District; Harbor Board and Chamber of Commerce information—rules, charges, &c., &c. ; Oity Council information; Money Tables ; statistical Census information ; Customs Returns of Imports and Exports—live stock, wool, Sc. ; pages of useful information re action in cases of drowning, fire, choking, sunstroke ; Complete Directory of Wellington and Suburbs, Wairarapa to Mauriceville, Johnsonville to Palmerston North and Masterton, and the Waimea Plains ; ’Frisco and Direct Steam Mail Time-Tables ; &c., &c. i be had of all town and country booksellers, and our Agents. WELLINGTON ALMANACK, 1887. Pbice —ONE SHILT JNG,