SECTION VIII page 174 - 225 [8 MB, PDF] - Christchurch City Libraries
SECTION VIII page 174 - 225 [8 MB, PDF] - Christchurch City Libraries
SECTION VIII page 174 - 225 [8 MB, PDF] - Christchurch City Libraries
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The picture showed the " Ann " under sail and steam off Cape Farewell ; she was a<br />
handsomely modelled steam-craft, rigged as a barque, and setting the old-fashioned<br />
whole-topsails ; in those days steam was really only an aailia~ to sail-power, for<br />
canvas still ruled the seas.<br />
An exhibit of artistic<br />
* as well as historic and<br />
topoppbic interest<br />
was a series of eight<br />
large framed sections<br />
of a chart of the west<br />
coast of the South<br />
Island, bearing the date<br />
1867 ; in those days<br />
Wetland formed part<br />
of the Canterburg<br />
Pro\-ince. These charts<br />
shon-ed the n-hole of<br />
the n-estern coast down<br />
to JLilford Sound, and<br />
\\-ere adorned with emcellent<br />
littie vignettes<br />
in water-colour illwtrati~e<br />
of coastil scenes-<br />
Tri~ " -hX.'' THE F m SIE.%MER TU EhC PORT LY~TELTOS. the &,"them Alps, the<br />
[From a piatme in the Sorth Canterbm Coos] old dig$p-to\\-ae, the<br />
nloutbs of the Oliarito.<br />
Haast, und other rivers. 111 all there werc shut seve~rt>- sketches in colour. Several<br />
of these carefull\- dra\\-11 n1a1r~411al pictures showed Slount C'ook alld other giants of the<br />
,mt white Alpine chain. One sketch from the sea near Okarito-ill 1867 a wonderfully<br />
rich alluvial goldfield--shod in the foreground a brig beating up the coast, then<br />
in the middle distance the surf-beaten beach and the ,pen forests of the Waiau, and<br />
beyond the milky ice-flow of the Fmnz Josef Glacier descending fro111 the Alpine Range<br />
into the anus of the bush.<br />
lncluded in the court and shoi\-11 in cases was a valuahle collectiol~ of bkr; and<br />
docwnents of the Canterbury hmciatiou and the Prox-ineial Cou~~cil. goi~il~~' 1)ack to the<br />
Eonndation of the Canterbury Province and the Ci@ of Cbristchurcl~. Anloapt these<br />
was a printed prospectus, setting forth for the information of 1iliel~- colonists amongst<br />
the Euglish public the krt~~s and co~~ditio~~s on which the land ohtailled iu the then<br />
infa~tt Colony of Sea Zealand uus to he &posed of. This doeunlent. bearing date<br />
the 1st January, 1850, stated that the Canterbury Association n-as incorporated by<br />
Ruyal charter on the 13th Sox-ember, 1849, and had secnred a block of f,#NI,(m acres<br />
of land in the South Island of Sew 7aland Alongside this \\-as an or&nal list of the<br />
inteading colonists rho gave ill their names to the association in 183). Othet docunie~itu<br />
dcalt with the methods of disposing of the land by nleans of sale and ballot. which settled<br />
the qnestion of priority of choice anlongst the applicants. the first " landluokers" ; the<br />
a~m~ncnt under which the Canterbury Assxiition acquired this ,-at area of country<br />
fro~ll the New Zealand Conlpaa?- : the proclamation (on parchmnent) of Chernor Grey<br />
constituting the Province of Canterbury under date Febmaw 28, 1853, and the proclanlation<br />
of the following month, containing directions for the election aud procedure<br />
of the Canterbuq Provincial Council : the first nuniber of the Government Gazette,<br />
printed at Lyttelton ; a large number of documents relating to the pastoral m s and<br />
other la~~ds ,panted ta the early settlers ; a manuscript of Commissioner Jan~es Camp-