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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3781, 13 November 1886, Page 2

rpHE CANTERBURY AND OTAGO ALMANAC, DIARY, DIRECTORY k HANDBOOK, FOR . 1887, Will bb Pubiished ON THE FIRST DECEMBER, Contains a mass of information indispensable to all classes of the community; und may. be obtained from all agents and booksellers. PRICE ONE SHILLING. Amoug3t other matters will be found the following : — Diary for the Year. Eclipse for the Year 1887. Fixed and Moveable Anniversaries, &c. Cash Memoranda The Farm and Garden Calendar. Gardening Memoranda— When to Sow Seeds, Plant Trees, shrubs, Bulbs, Roses, and Hardy Flowering Plants — Tho Value of a Garden— Six Reasons for Planting an Orchard— How to Mukc Flower Bed 3— The Importance of Eradicating Weeds — To Prevent the Dropping off of Grapes —Directions for Pruning Vines— Transplanting Applo Trees— Planting Shrubs and Trees — How to Restoro Old Apple Irees — Scale and other Insects on Trees, Shrubs, and Plants— The Tomato. Trade Tables and Memoranda. Tidal Currents. Dimensions of a Statute Aero, m Yards. Number of Plants or Trees per Acre. Miscellaneous Weights and Measures. Interest Ready Reckoner. Housekeeper's Ready Reckoner. Storekeeper's Ready Reckoner. Table to Calcnlato Wages or Savings. ' The Mile as Measured by Various Nations, Tho National Debt of Great Britain. The Royal Family. Legal Opinions. Veterinary Hints and Suggestions. Fact 3 and Helps for the Times— How to get Content — How to Make MoneyKeep to Your Calling — Pronunciation — Characteristics of Great Men — Caution to Mothers — Home Cheerfulness — Failure, m Business — One De*>t Begets Another — How to bo Misorable. I How to Proceed mR. M. Court. Household Remedies. Business and Legal Forms. - Probate and Administration. r Land Transfer Act. I Crown Grants. i "~ i COMPULSORY REGISTRATIONS 3 AND LICENCES. Births, Marriages and Deaths — Vncciimtion — Registration of Dogs — Auctioneers' Licenses — Slaughter Houeo Licenses — ' Publicans' Licenses. I Ports of Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunodin. J Postal Information. Telegraph Information. Customs Information — Tho Customs Duties f ' Paperhanging Table. l Resident Magistrates Court;. , District Court Fees. j Dimensions of a Statuto Acre. Supreme Court Fees — Allowances to Prosecutors and Witnesses m Criminul Procoodings, r NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. Passengers Fares — Parcel Rates — Horses and Carriages — Classified Goods Rates — Cattle, Calves, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs — Small Lots- Carts, IJrays, Wagon 9, &c. • The Impounding Act — Table of Trespass • Rates. j, Tho Fencing Act. i | SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT ACTS. J Workman's Wages — The Employment of Females and other Acts — Tho Destitute 1 Persons -The Bills of Ei-hange — The False Notices of Birth, Marriage, and i Death Act— Tho Sheep Act— The Bubbit ; Act— Settled Laud Act. 3 Consolidated Stamp Duties. Deceased Persons Estate Duties. Table of Verification of Dates. ] Huw to Petition Parliament. j Compara' ive Temperatures of New Zealand Treatment m Case of Apparent Drowning. The Gamo Season. The Colony of New Zealand — Constitution and Government —Church and Edup cation — Area -of the Colony — Classification of Land — Revenuo and Expenditure r — Progress of our Public Debt — Freehold Estate — The Crown Land — Railways — Ages of Persons Married m New Zealand — DeatliB — General Summary — Immigration Returns — Population — Export of gold — Antidotes for Poisons — Physical Culture — A Practical Guide to Health and Strength. • Curving. ' Height of Noted Monuments and Buildings. . Table Showing the Principal Countries of , tho World, their Population, Religion, , and form of Government. The Rule of tho Road at Sea. " Union Steam Shipping Co.'s Fares. Census of New Zealand. N. Z. Mean Time. Population Principal Citiea of the Old World. Capacity of Noted Churches and Halls. THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY. i TRADE AND LOCAL DIRECTORIES ( Timuru — Names of Residents. Waimato (Otlicial und Trade). Oamaru (official). 1 Pleasant Point (Trade and Oflicial). Geraldine (Trade und Official). ' Temuka (Trado and Official.) Associations, Boards, &c. ■ Justices of the Peace. [ And a variety of other useful items which cannot bo enumerated within the limits of an a'lvertisemont, comprising upwards of TWO HUNDRED PAGES of closely printed Letter-profs (exclusive of advertisements), FAR SURPASSING ANY PREVIOUS ISSUE, and rendering it, for general purposes, THE MOST COMPLETE ALMANAC and work of reference ever PUBLISHED for ONE SHILLING.