If his quotations of figures were instructive to hisaudience in England, they are to the full as useful to ourselves, Co-operative dairying is, as our Agent-General says, one of the greatest hopes of | New Zealand; but it lies with our selves, here and now, to turn our hopes into fruition. When Mr Perceval refers, later on in his.leoture, to the possibility of having an Industrial expert in the Agent-General's Department in Lon don, we are reminded that he himself has already done excellent work in inaugurating an Information Bureau! at his Offices; and we conceive that the work of suoh an expert, if appointed, will be to some ex tent the converse of the work already undertaken—that, while the Informa tion Bureau offers suggestions to in tending colonists, the Industrial Ex pert will keep the people of New Zealand posted in the requirements of the English markets.. If it be so, the idea is a capital one, We can only give a word or two to Mr Perceval's final topic, " New Zea land as a Tourist Land." It is popu larly supposed-we forget whether Charles Lamb has classed the notion among his" popular fallacies "—that good wine needs no bush. Holding, as wo do, tho contrary opinion, and recognising very clearly the value of advertising, we are highly 'pleased with the official puff that our moun tains, lakes, geysers, and forests have received at the hands of our' Agen t We hope this excellent advertisement will lead to an increased business with 'globe-trotters; and when we have been floknowled as the Switzerland, etc., of the Southern Hemisphere we shall not forget our debt to Mr Perceval's enthusiastic advocacy of our claims. Since the unwieldy subjeot of Im perial. Federation is relegated by the lecture to a few concluding para graphs which hardly amount to a peroration, we shall not be accused of under-estimating its importance if we refer to it with a like brevity. 