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PREFATORY.

E desire to draw attention to the fact that the growing demand for infor

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mation concerning the Australasian Colonies has compelled us to con

siderably enlarge the AUSTRALIAN HANDBOOK, and to have its pages printed in smaller type, in order that the information required may be as exhaustive and as accurate as possible, and its reputation as the standard authority on Australasia maintained.

Much new and interesting matter has been added, of which special reference may be made to the "Hundred Years' History of New South Wales" (specially written for this-the nineteenth-issue of the Handbook), the detailed description of the immensely important irrigation schemes adopted by the colonies of Victoria and South Australia, water conservation in South Australia, and the valuable geological and mineralogical description of the Northern Territory.

Special care has been bestowed upon the diagrams illustrating the prices on the London Stock] Exchange of Australasian Government Securities, Shares of Australasian Banks, and the prices of Australasian wool. All statistics and maps have been revised and corrected to the very latest possible date; every town has been revised; and the Colonial Buyers' Guide has been enlarged for the benefit of merchants, manufacturers, and exporters.

We again thank our numerous correspondents in various parts of the world for much useful information and many valuable suggestions, and cordially invite a continuance of such favours.

GORDON & GOTCH.

HENRY BROOKS &

COMPANY,

LONDON:-70, Bishopsgate Street Within, E.C. SYDNEY:-359, George Street;

WELLINGTON, N.Z.:-Willis Street;

AND

MELBOURNE:-39, Elizabeth Street;

Are prepared to execute INDENTS for the undermentioned Goods on favourable terms (effecting Shipment from the most convenient Ports) :

PLATE GLASS:-ENGLISH & FOREIGN WINDOW GLASS of specially selected Brands; STAINED and ORNAMENTAL WINDOW GLASS; GLAZIERS' DIAMONDS.

PAPERHANGINGS

and MOULDINGS; WHITE LEADS, PAINTS, OILS, COLOURS, and DYEWOODS; VARNISHES and WOODSTAINS; BRUSHWARE; EARTHENWARE.

IRONMONGERY and every description of HARDWARE; CHIMNEY-PIECES, STOVES and GRATES; ENCAUSTIC TILES; SLATES, TIMBER, SHEET LEAD and CEMENT.

GALVANIZED IRON; STEEL or IRON FENCING WIRE and WIRE NAILS; MACHINERY, &c., &c.

Sole Agents in the Australian Colonies and New Zealand forC. & J. G. POTTER'S PAPERHANGINGS.

CHAMPION, DRUCE, HARRISS, & CO. (MELBOURNE EXCEPTED.)
MANDER BROTHERS, WOLVERHAMPTON. (VARNISHES, &c.)

G. B. KENT & SONS, LONDON. (PAINTING BRUSHes.)

SHARRATT & NEWTH, LONDON. (PATENT GLAZIERS' DIAMONDS.)
CANNON'S CONCENTRATED SIZE AND GLUE POWDER.

HELMET" BRAND GALVANIZED CORRUGATED IRON.

" HELMET" BRAND SOLID STEEL PATENT SHEEP SHEARS.
HELMET" BRAND STEEL OR IRON FENCING WIRE.
'HELMET" BRAND WIRE NAILS.

ENGELBERT'S LUBRICATOR. (NEW ZEALAND EXCEPTED.)
THE BRITISH PATENT GLAZING COMPANY, LIMITED.

PATENTS.)

Sole Agents in New Zealand for

THE DARWEN PAPER STAINING COMPANY.

THE WENHAM COMPANY, LIMITED. (PATENT GAS LAMPS.)

(MACKENZIE'S

DICT, DE GEOGR,

GENERAL AND ANALYTICAL INDEX.

MAPS, PLANS, CHARTS.

Maps of Mail Steamship Routes; Plan of London: Map of Australasian Explorers' Routes: Wreck Chart of Australasia; Map of Australasian Railways;
Sew South Wales and Railway Map; Excursion Map of Sydney and surroundings; Victoria and Railway Map, plan of Melbourne and suburbs,
South Australia and Railway Map; Northern Territory; West Australia and Kailway Map; Queensland and Railway Map: plan of Brisbane:
Tasmania and Railway Map; New Zealand and Railway Map; Fiji; New Guinea; Charts of Australasian Government Securities, Banks, and
Frice of Woul.