INTRODUCTION. 



The much neglected Fish and Timber industries find sympathetic 

 treatment at the callable hands of Messrs. Ogilby and Maiden, 

 ■which, it is hoped, may tend somewhat to their improvement. 

 Much useful information as to the IMining Industry is furnished by 

 the Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. Slee ; and a series of thoughtful 

 papers by ]\Ir. Frank Donohue and others deal fair]}-, if not very 

 fully, with the several features of our social and educational progress. 

 But why run further through the long list r The book is here to 

 speak for itself, and may be described generally as a sort of literary 

 panorama (though necessarily, from the purely practical character 

 of most of the papers, with few literary pretensions) of the 

 present condition and prospects, from almost every point of view, 

 of the Colony. That it will altogether escape criticism, of course, 

 cannot be expected ; that it will answer largely its main purpose 

 as an authentic record of the country's progress up to date, and 

 further, as spreading far and wide, both among her own people and 

 those of other countries — the book has been translated into French, 

 and will be well distributed — a fuller knowledge and appreciation 

 of the splendid resources and cajoabilities of this glorious land, ma}', 

 the Editor thinks, as certainly be hoped. 



FRANK HUTCHINSON. 



