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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3805, 11 December 1886, Page 2

mHE CANTERBURY AND OTAGO ALMANAC, DIARY.S DIRECTORY & HANDBOOK, 108 1887, IS NOW PUBLISH 0, Contains a mass of information indispensable to all classes of the community ; and may bo obtained from all agents and booksellers. PRICE ONE SHILLING-. Amongst other matters will be found the following : — Diary for the Year. Eclipso for the Year 1887. Fixed and Moveablo Anniversaries, &c. Cash Memoranda. The Farm and Garden Calendar. Gardening Memoranda— When to Sow Seedsf Plant Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Roses, and Hardy Flowering Plants— The Value o, a Garden— Six Reasons for Planting an Orchard — How to Make Flower Beds — The Importance of Eradicating Weeds —To Prevent the Dropping off of Grapes — Directions for Pruning Vines— Transplanting Apple Trees — Planting Shrubs and Trees — How to Restoro Old Apple Trees — Scale and other Insects on Trees, Shrubs, and Plants— The Tomato. Trade Tables and Memoranda. Tidal Currents. Dimensions of a Statute Acre, 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 Calculate Woges or Savings. The Mile as Measured by Variouß Nations. The 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 Colling— Pronunciation — Characteristics of Great Men — Caution to Mothers — Home Cheerfulness — Failure m Business — One Debt Begets Another — How to be Miserable. How to Proceed m R. M. Court. Household Remedies. Business and Legal Forms. Probate and Administration. Land Transfer Act. Crown Grants. COMPULSORY REGISTRATIONS AND LICENCES. Births, Marriages and Deaths — Vaccination — Registration of Dogs — Auctioneers' Licenses — Slaughter House Licenses — Publicans' Licenses. Ports of Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin. Postal Information. Telegraph Information. Customs Information — The Customs Duties Paperhanging Table. Resident Magistrates Courts. District Court Fees. Dimensions of a Statute Acre. Supreme Court Fees — Allowances to Prosecutors and Witnesses m Criminal Proceedings. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. Passengers Fares — Parcel Rates— Horses and Carriages — Classified Goods Bates — Cattle, Calves, Sheep, Goats, and Pigi— Small Lots— Carts, Drays, Wagons, 4c. Tha Impounding Act — Tablo of Trespass Rates. The Fencing Act. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT ACT 3. Workman's Wages — The Employment of Females and other Acts — The Destitute Persons— Tho Bills of Exchange— The False Notices of Birth, Marriage, and Death Act— The Bheep Act— The Babbit Act — Settled Land Act. Consolidated Stamp Duties, Deceased Persons Hstate Duties. Table of Verification of Dates. How to Petition Parliament. Comparative Temperatures of New Zealand Treatment m Case of Apparent Drowning. The Game Season. The Colony of New Zealand— Constitution and Government —Church and Education — Area of the Colony — Classification of Land — Revenue and Expenditure —Progress of our Public Debt— Freehold Estate — Tho Crown Land — Railways — Ages of Persons Married m New Zealand — Deaths — General Bummary — Immigration Returns — Population — Export of gold — Antidotes for Poisons — Physical Culture — A Practical Guide to Heal tli and Strength. Carving. Height of Noted Monuments and Buildings. Table Showing the Principal Countries of the World, their Population, Religion, and form of Government. The Rule of the Road at Sea. Union Steam Shipping Co.'s Fares. Census of New Zealand. N. Z. Mean Time. Population Principal Cities of the Old World. Capacity of Noted Churches and Halls. THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY. TRADE AND LOCAL DIRECTORIES Timaru — Names of Residents. Waimate (Official and Trade). Oamaru (official). Pleasant Point (Trade and Official). Geraldine (Trade and Official). Temuka (Trade and Official.) Associations, Boards, ic. Justices of the Peace. 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), FAR SURPASSING ANY PREVIOUS ISSUE, and rendering it, for general purposes, THE MOST COMPLETE ALMANAC and work of reference ever PUBLISHED for ONE SHILLING.