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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1189, 14 December 1894, Page 19

NEW ZEALAND MAIL CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1894 A SPECIAL Christmas Number of J3 L the NEW ZEALAND MAIL will be published early next week. It will be entirely distinct from the ordinary weekly issue of the Mail, and will contain 36 pages of original stories and sketches by English and colonial authors, making over 100 columns of entertaining reading matter, which if printed in book form would occupy a volume of some 400 pages. The Biggest and Best Budget of Recreative Beading Ever published in the colonies for .SIXPENCE. A feature of the Christmas Number of the NEW ZEALAND MAIL will, be the fact that the majority ,of the stories, sketches and poems are based upon colonial subjects, and are written by colonial authors, Eight pages of well-engraved illustrations will be given, including— SCENES in GOVERNMENT HOUSE. PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. BOYS, WELLINGTON COLLEGE. BOYS, WANGANUI COLLEGE. GIRLS, WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL. a • , BOYS, ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE. SARGOOD & SONS. GEO. THOMAS & CO. BING, HARRIS & CO. ROSS & GLENDINING. j R. HANNAH & CO. . TE ARO HOUSE. A.M.P. SOCIETY. COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE. NATIONAL MUTUAL LIFE. MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. BRISCOE, MacNEIL & CO. BIRNBAUM & SON. E. W. MILLS & CO. JOHN DUTHIE & CO. GOVERNMENT LIFE INSLRANCE. GENERAL POST OFFICE. HARCOURT & CO.

&c., &c., &c. The following are the titles o* some'of the principal contributions : * “ THAT GIRL OF RYAN’S,” By “ Aibue,”. Author of “ John Reed’s Stockman,” “ A Bushtown Beauty,” etc. (Specially written for the Mail Christmas Number of 1894). “ BERNADISTON,” By Haeby B. Vogel (Specially written for the Mail Christmas Number of 1894). “ON A DIARY,” By R. A. Loughnan (Specially written for the Mail Christmas Number of 1894). “ THE XMAS KALEIDOSCOPE,” OR “ THE PICTURES IN THE TOY,” By “Scrutator” (Specially written for the Mail Christmas Number of 1894). “ IN OLDEN DAYS,” A Quaint old Maori Story, By Elsdon Best, Author of “ Te Whanganui-a-tara,” etc., etc. (Specially written for the Mail Christmas Number of 1894). “ CHRISTMAS SNOW,” (From the Danish), .By Mrs Walter Leslie (Specially written for the Mail Christmas Number of 1894).

“DEATH IN LIFE,” By James H. Kikby (Specially written for the Mail Christmas Number of 1894). “ A SONG OF THE FOREST,” ore. “ THE TUI'S STORY,” By Cecil Thornton r(Saecially written for the Mail Christmas 'lumberof 1894).