Wellington Diocesan Library.

This is contained in a small wooden building, situated in Mulgrave Street, and has about 2,000 volumes. It is open on application to the Secretary, on any week day between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., to any clergyman in Anglican Orders, and probably to any other person, for purposes of reference. The library is strictly theological and is not up to date; it has, however, some valuable sets of older works—there is a catalogue in manuscript.

With the libraries in Wellington, I come to an end of my account of the chief libraries in the North Island of New Zealand. There are, however, Athenaeums, mechanics' institutes, or public libraries in most of the towns in this Island, and after those I have already mentioned, probably the libraries in the following towns would deserve notice, viz:—Coromandel, Gisborne, Grahamstown, Masterton, New Plymouth, Russell, and Tauranga.

I applied to some of these institutions for particulars, not being able to visit them, but received no answer; but when one is travelling about letters sometimes miscarry, and the postal arrangements in New Zealand are somewhat page 26 defective, especially when compared with those in Victoria and South Australia. However, I think I have mentioned all the more important libraries, and will conclude by noticing that in 1884, 149 libraries in the North Island shared in the Government Grant to the extent of £2,495 5s. 5d., their total income apart from the subsidy being £3,972 13s. 7d.