THE "CANTERBURY TIMES."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7414, 28 May 1902, Page 2

THE "CANTERBURY TIMES."

The popular weekly of New Zealand, the "Canterbury Times," has this . week contents which amply maintain its popularity. Amongst the special articles and papers are «■ The Queer Things About Japan," tea-houses and. geisha, girls^being the particular subjects dealt with j "King Richard of New Zealand/' a charactersketch of "'the autocrat of a democracy" ; "Scochow," an article in which th* working of trades unions in China is disclosed ,* " Germany's Stealthy Conquest," /an able exposition of the designs of the Kaiser upon the United States; "Spain's Lit tie King Alphonso;" "South African Notes" (by Leonard Northcroft), dealing with the Witwatersrand goldfields; "Some Good Roses," by a Christchurch rosarian, giving his expenence of new Vnd old varieties ; a useful article on "Winter Flowering Shrubs " ; *' New Zealand Butter in. Australia," which gives some of Mr Kinsella's (Dairy Commissioner) impressions upon the manner in which our butter is manipulated by Commonwealth dealers ; " The Canterburv Jcckfy Club," "Steeplechase Prospects," aud " Stipendiary Stewards," all of interest to many other than sporting readers, and marly" other instructive articles. Entertaining reading is supplied with equal liberality, the fiction end miscellaneous literature being by the mosfc popular writers of the day. The present of De Lisle's "Tales of Sport," "The Queen of Guessers," is ona of the best of the series ; the stirring serial " Dacobra," by, Harris Burland, will gain fresh readers every week, and j tho complete short stories are, in number I and quality, superior to those, given in any j other weekly. Football, Chess, Draughts, and even Ping-Pong are dealt with by.experts, and, ia fact, a complete library is to be obtained in the "Canterbury Times."-