They can put through 18,000 wheep and lambs every working day, and have an aggregate storage capacity of over 400,000 carcases. These woiks are completely equipped for converting the byc pruducts into maiketable commodities, pre served meats, tallow, bone-dust, manures, neat*-foot oil. etc. We have three woollen mills," in which l'tiily 1,000,0001b of locally grown wool is manufactured into blankets, doth, yanus etc., every year. In these and ths clothing -factories connected therewith nb.ut 1500 hand's are regularly employed. Besides these we have boot, butter, biscuit, furniture, implement, soap and candle fac tories, ftaur mills, brick and tile manufac tories, iron and brass foundries, print—?, and Midi building, and a hundred and one other industrial establishments. The total invest ments in land, buildings, and machinery for factory purposes amount to fully £rs£OO,COO, ami the product to fully £3,00*0,000 per an num. Tiiis wonderful productive and industrial development has been largely aided by our splendid sy«t?m of road?, railways, and tele graphs. We have übout 10,000 miles of mad*, and 455 miles of railway and tele graphs, which form a complete network ex tending into all parte of thi province. HARBOt-IS. Our principal harbour, Lyttelton, is pro vided with breakwaters enclosing over 100 acres, ample wharf accommodation, a splen did graving dock, and patent slip. It ie sup plied with' electric light and all requisite railway and other appliances for loading and j unloading by day or night. Timaru, the harOour for South Canterbury, has also had | targe sums expended upon it. and has an en closed area of fifty acres of still water, with good wharf and harbour accommodation. WATER RACES. A visitor" to Canterbury cannot fail to notice our system of water-races, by which nearly every farm on the plains is supplied. The plains have a gradual fall of about thirty feet to tlie mile over an average width of forty miles between the mountains and the sea. The rivers traversing the plains have been tapped and water distributed by means of races throughout the length and breadth of the farmlands situated at a distance from the natural supply. No less than 2796 miles of races are now in operation. Tlie total cost has been about £120,000, and the area watered is over 1,000.000 acres, the average cost being less than half-a-cro wn per acre. Maintenance is provided for by a moderate, charge per acr«. EDUCATION. 