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The picture showed the " Ann " under sail and steam off Cape Farewell ; she was a
handsomely modelled steam-craft, rigged as a barque, and setting the old-fashioned
whole-topsails ; in those days steam was really only an aailia~ to sail-power, for
canvas still ruled the seas.
An exhibit of artistic
* as well as historic and
topoppbic interest
was a series of eight
large framed sections
of a chart of the west
coast of the South
Island, bearing the date
1867 ; in those days
Wetland formed part
of the Canterburg
Pro\-ince. These charts
shon-ed the n-hole of
the n-estern coast down
to JLilford Sound, and
\\-ere adorned with emcellent
littie vignettes
in water-colour illwtrati~e
of coastil scenes-
Tri~ " -hX.'' THE F m SIE.%MER TU EhC PORT LY~TELTOS. the &,"them Alps, the
[From a piatme in the Sorth Canterbm Coos] old dig$p-to\\-ae, the
nloutbs of the Oliarito.
Haast, und other rivers. 111 all there werc shut seve~rt>- sketches in colour. Several
of these carefull\- dra\\-11 n1a1r~411al pictures showed Slount C'ook alld other giants of the
,mt white Alpine chain. One sketch from the sea near Okarito-ill 1867 a wonderfully
rich alluvial goldfield--shod in the foreground a brig beating up the coast, then
in the middle distance the surf-beaten beach and the ,pen forests of the Waiau, and
beyond the milky ice-flow of the Fmnz Josef Glacier descending fro111 the Alpine Range
into the anus of the bush.
lncluded in the court and shoi\-11 in cases was a valuahle collectiol~ of bkr; and
docwnents of the Canterbury hmciatiou and the Prox-ineial Cou~~cil. goi~il~~' 1)ack to the
Eonndation of the Canterbury Province and the Ci@ of Cbristchurcl~. Anloapt these
was a printed prospectus, setting forth for the information of 1iliel~- colonists amongst
the Euglish public the krt~~s and co~~ditio~~s on which the land ohtailled iu the then
infa~tt Colony of Sea Zealand uus to he &posed of. This doeunlent. bearing date
the 1st January, 1850, stated that the Canterbury Association n-as incorporated by
Ruyal charter on the 13th Sox-ember, 1849, and had secnred a block of f,#NI,(m acres
of land in the South Island of Sew 7aland Alongside this \\-as an or&nal list of the
inteading colonists rho gave ill their names to the association in 183). Othet docunie~itu
dcalt with the methods of disposing of the land by nleans of sale and ballot. which settled
the qnestion of priority of choice anlongst the applicants. the first " landluokers" ; the
a~m~ncnt under which the Canterbury Assxiition acquired this ,-at area of country
fro~ll the New Zealand Conlpaa?- : the proclamation (on parchmnent) of Chernor Grey
constituting the Province of Canterbury under date Febmaw 28, 1853, and the proclanlation
of the following month, containing directions for the election aud procedure
of the Canterbuq Provincial Council : the first nuniber of the Government Gazette,
printed at Lyttelton ; a large number of documents relating to the pastoral m s and
other la~~ds ,panted ta the early settlers ; a manuscript of Commissioner Jan~es Camp-