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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-

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