WILL SHORTLY BE PUBLISHED, IN THE OTAGO WITNESS, CHAP. I. OF "THE QUEEN OF THE PACIFIC," AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE, By "ABDUL." 1 1HE STORY is a vision of New Zealand .1 a hundred or more years hence. England and her Empire are supposed to have declined, and to have fallen as did Rome's, and her nobles and people have carried their wealth to the now dependent i Colonies. An English emperor rules over a federated and prosperous Empire of Australia. New Zealand is an allied and independent monarchy, ruled by a limited king, and possessing all the benefits, without any of the deficiencies, of the English Con- stitution as it now exists. England's mavi- time and naval aupreinacy and her coramer- cial greatness have become the legacy of New Zealand, and the ships and men-of-war of the Queen of the Pacific rule the ocean. She is a power of the first order— rich, j flourishing, prosperous, and free. All those enormous resources which the islands are known in our day to possess, in the shape of coal, iron, and other minerals, are supposed to have developed themselves with even greater results than England beheld in her mineral wealth. The country is thickly populated, covered with a network of rail- ways, and studded with large manufacturing towns. Her harbours are large and magni- oeut, and hold a great fleet of war vessels. Tier ambassadors are at all foreign Courts. Science and art have reached their culmina- tion, and have produced now and strange results. In a word, on r Colony is tho seat of a rich and powerful nation. The romance , ia supposed to be wril.ten by two travellers, who have passed over the length and breadth of the kingdom of Now Zealand, and they enter fully into a discussion upon her social institutions and other points of interest. As a guarantee that this story will not be wanting in literary merit, we have only to remind our readers that "Abdul" was the author of the " Political Portraits," and of tho interesting letters "Via San Francisco," which appeared not knag ago in our columns. Subscription, £1 2s 6d per annum ; 12s per half-year ; 6s 6d per quarter ; payable in advance. OKDER OF- ANY BOOKSELLER. NEW ZEALAND MAGAZINE A Quarterly Journal of General Literature. 