The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 57

Australasia

Australasia.

[Australia.]—The Australian Handbook (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea) and Shippers' and Importers' Directory for 1885. London, Gordon & Gotch; 8vo., pp. 728. Price 10 s. 6 d.

This useful publication reaches its sixteenth annual issue with the present volume. It contains a vast amount of information, up to date, relative to the Australasian Colonies, including the Discovery, Settlement, Geography, Climate, Products and Resources, and Statistics of each. It also contains an account of the Colony of Fiji and of New Guinea; as also a Gazetteer of the principal towns in Australia and New Zealand, &c. The work is profusely illustrated with maps which have been enlarged and prepared from the best sources.