‘The Weekly Dispatch’ newspaper between the years 1856 and 1862 included in each edition a map of a part of the world. During this period a total of 118 maps were issued. The maps bear the distinctive sign of a half globe with the figure of Mercury above. The engravers varied but included John Dower and Edward Weller. In 1863 ‘The Dispatch Atlas’ was published which contained a series of English county maps. The two were combined in 1865 as ‘Cassell’s Complete Atlas’. This map depicts the South Island of New Zealand in some detail, the three Provinces are named with their respective acreage’s. An inset upper left depicts the whole of the country. Beresiner pp. 85-7; refer Carroll no. 120.