* Supreme Court Library, Christ Church.

This is under the management of the Canterbury District Law Society, and is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (except Sundays and Supreme Court holidays). All admitted legal practitioners, clerks of solicitors, pupils of barristers, and any other person, if properly recommended, and on payment of 21s. a month, are permitted to use the library. The library, which is strictly legal, contains about 3,000 volumes, and no books are permitted to go beyond the precincts of the court. A printed catalogue was issued in 1883, 8vo, pp. 94., which is very similar in arrangement and get-up to the catalogue of the Supreme Court Library, Wellington, already described.

Besides the Canterbury Public Library, and the Library of the Supreme Court, there are in Christ Church, libraries belonging to the Canterbury Museum, Canterbury College, and the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. This last which is small, and almost entirely scientific, is stored in one of the rooms at the Canterbury Public Library.

That at Canterbury College, may be called a students' library, and is distributed throughout the various lecture rooms.

That at the Museum will eventually, no doubt, be of page 32 value, and more attention is being paid to it every year. It consists chiefly of scientific works, and of transactions of learned societies, and has received during the last few years many valuable donations from different parts of the world.