Publication- '• fTTIHE SOUTH OANTBBBUBY ALMANAC, DIARY, DIBEOTOBY, & HANDBOOK, JOB 18 8 0, Contains a mass of information indisponeablo to all classes of the community ; and may be obtained from ihe following Agents : — P. W. Hutton and Co. - - - Timaru Small and Clomanco - „ H. A. Tomporton and Co. • • >■ J. M. Shopnord- - - • • „ Mrs. Porcoval „ Job Brown Toniuka P. Wareing „ G. Taylor • • . ■ . . Winchester W. S. Maslin - - - • - Goraldino Morrison and Danlop • • • „ Taylor and Flatman . . Woodbury I. L. Morris - - - Pleasant Point Morris and Gall - - - Fairlio Crook J. Chivors .... Boaoonsflold Manchostor Bros, and Goldsmith • Waimato R-onayno and Cottoroll ... Oamaru A. L. Bulo ■ - - - - „ J. Cagnoy »..-». D. Forrior „ W. B. Hayes , H. Wiao and Co. .... Dunodin J. Braithwuito • > • • „ PRICE ONE SHILLING Amongst other matters will bo found the following : — Diary for Iho Year Eclipses for Year 1880 Fixed and Moveable Anniversaries, &c. Cash Memoranda Tbo Farm and Garden Calendar Gardening Memoranda — Grafting — Manures — Slugs — Wood-lioo — Blight — Perfume f rem Flowors — Potatoes — Rhubarb — Carrots— Cabbage — Cauliflowers— Bonne —Celery — Beet — Root-pruning— How to Sow Vegetables and Flower SeedsBotanical and English Names of Grasses — Quantity Required — Time taken to Germinate— Number of Plants to an ; Acre — Number of Sets of Potatoes per Acre — List of Plants required for a Small Garden, &c, &o. Things a Former should not do Rales to Find the Weight of Hay and Cttttlo Duration and Vitality of Grain Crossing Rivers ' Useful Hints to Owners of Propoity— The Preservation of Houses— Damp Walls Purchasing and Leasing — Landlords trad Tenants — A greements POSTAL TIME TABLES SAN FEANOISCO MAIL. Harbor Information for Timaru, Oamarn, and Dunedin. Thb Colost of Nbw Zbaiabd— Its Constitution and Government — Bo venae and Expenditure — Tbe Public Dobt— Area and Population — Immigrants— Gold Exports — General Ccdbus Summary — Buc cession of Governors — Young New Zealand. New Zealand Stamp Duties Land Transfer Act — Examples and Tables of Fees. General Honsohpld and Trade Receipts — A chapter consisting of about Ono Hundred now Receipts for overy-day uso m tho Home and the Workshop, &c, &o, THE NEW CUSTOMS TARIFF. Customslnformation — Passing Entries—Entering and Clearing Vessels— Rule for Calculating Ovorproof and Underproof Spirits, with examples — Duty on Fractional Parts of a Gallon. New Interesting and Useful Foots— Safety for Post Office Packages — Living on a Trifle per Day— Strawberries and Constipation — Tho Condition of Mars — Tho Effect of Gaslight on the EyesRipening of Grapes — A Lecture Experiment Improved — Paper', Window-shut-lers — Ringing m th» Ears Explninod — A New Mode of Dressing Wounds — Death by Drowning — What to do m caso of Drowning — Indoor Safety m a Thunder Storm, &c, &c. THE LAWS OF ORIOKET. The Laws of Iho Marylcbone Clvb — Betting, &c. Useful Tablos — Population of tho Earth — Surveyor's Table — Interest — Beady Reckoner — Actual Revenues, years 1876---77, 1877-78 — District Schools m South Canterbury — Area and Population of Great States of the World— Time Bequirod for Digestion — Sovereigns and Heads of Governments — Table to Calculato Wages — Religions Donomina- . tions m New Zealand— Return Customs Revenue, Five Yrars — Return Gross Duties Customs, Eleven Years— Return Value Imports and Exports — Distribution of Immigrants m the Colony, their Nationality ic. Snpremo Court and Resident Magistrate's Court Fees and Regulations. Iniormation about .Wills, with Examples— — Prob-ilo and Administration. Registration of Birth), Marriages and Deaths —Registration of Dogs, &?. PARASITIC INSECTS WHICH INFEST SHEEP, Introducing Skin Disease, and deprecating the valuo of both Sheep and Wool, with directions for treatment. By Dr. Hector. Now Zealand Telegraphs — Rules and Conditions — List of Stations — Tariff Bates, &c. : Amonded Postal Regulations — Batoof Postoge — Inland and Foreign, Pattern, Sample, and Parcel Post — Inland and Foreign Book Post— Post-cards— Money Orders — Registration — Trade Circulars and Prices Current— Savings Banks — Regulations and Suggestions. Trout Fishing m Canterbury — Regulations. The Electors of Now Zealand who Voted at Last General Eleetion — Results of Elections, New Zealand Railways — Mileage — Fares — Timo Tablos — General Conditions — Parcel Rates, &c, &c. Conveyances by Land nnd Water. THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY. Trado Directory— Timaru Waimato Oamarn Pleaonnt Point Goroldine Winchester Tcmuka Associations, Boards, &c. Justices of the Peaco. The Boyal Family— Dato of Birth, ond ago m 1880. Presidents of tho United States from 1789. And a variety of other useful items which cannot be enumerated within the limits of an advertisement, comprising upwards of TWO HUNDRED PAGES of closely printed Letter-press (exclusive of advertisements), FAB SURPASSING AN? PREVIOUS ISSUE, and rendering it, for general purposes, THE MOST COMPLETE ALMANAC and work of reference ever PUBLISHED for ONE SHILLING.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 1628, 9 December 1879, Page 4
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