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 NEW ZEALAND. The Tourist's Paradise.

New Zealand it Nature's farourite child, and the prodigal mother has filled her lap with a wealth of wonders that are to be seen nowhere else"

STEAM SHIP CO, OF

The fleet of the Company comprises 41 vessels, all new and fast, and fitted with every modern improvement, while for excellence of appointments, table, and attendance the UNION LINE is a household word throughout the Southern Hemisphere. The following steamers are favourably and well known in the Intercolonial service :

n A II I HO * (2SOO tons). WAIKARAPA (18OO ton*).

aKAHAPOURI (1MOO ton*). ROTO9IAHAN A ( I O tons).

TARAWEIIA MOOO ton.). WAIHOKA (9OOO un>

TEKAPO (2.1&O ton.) II I I It 010 (OOO ion. ).

WAIt ATIPU (1*00 tons). II Alt AIT (17OO ton. >.

These fine Steamers run regularly between Australia and New Zealand, as follows :

From MELBOURNE. Weekly for all New Zealand ports, and vice versa. From SYDNEY. Six times monthly for all New Zealand ports and vice versa.

In addition to these services, Steamers leave Melbourne monthly for New Hebrides and Fiji Islands, Auckland monthly for Fiji, Auckland monthly for Tonga and Samoa ; while one of the Company's Steamers plies regularly between the different Islands of the Fiji and Tongan groups.

NEW ZEALAND SERVICES. The bulk of the Company's fleet is engaged in the coastal service oi the Colony, and between the principal ports there is almost daily communication.

By means of these services the Tourist can visit all the year round the

WO.VDERS OF NEW ZEALAND SCENERY, INCLUDING IN THE NORTH ISLAND, THE SANATORIUM OF THE WORLD, THE

HOT LAKES DISTRICT,

with its ever active Geysers and Volcanoes ; and in the South Island

THE GREAT COLD LAKES AND ICE FIELDS,

forming a grand chain of Mountain, Loch, and Glen, including the unsurpassable Mount Cook and its Glaciers. During January and February of each year

SPECIAL EXCURSIONS TO THE WEST COAST SOUNDS

are made, each trip occupying nine days from Dunedin, during which facility is given for Fishing, Shooting, Sketching, and Exploring these wonderful Fiords -where Nature is seen in her grandest aspect.

The Company are also contractors for the Mail Service between Australia, New Zealand, and San Francisco, and a steamer leaves Sydney monthly for Auckland, Honolulu, and San Francisco, and vice versa.

For information on all points of interest to tourists and others, apply to any of the Company's numerous offices throughout the Colonies.

HEAD OFFICE : LONDON OFFICE :

DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND. i8 WALBROOK, E.G.