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Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 32

THE OTAGO WITNESS CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, 1905. {VHE DAILY TIMES AND WITNESS COMPANY'S CHRISTMAS ANNUAL EOR 1905 will, if possible, excel any of its predecessors in the Beauty and Variety of Its Illustrations, while its LITERARY CONTENTS will bear the test of comparison with any thing of the kind yet issued in the 1 Colonies. The leading feature is a pleasing sketch of Maori life and Customs, as found in Native Districts of the North Island, graphically described by 3VTr MALCOLM ROSS, under the poetical* title of ' v Through Te Heuheu's Territory : Tales of To-day and Yesterday." Illustrated from Photographs taken for the purpose by the - - Author. These will be accompanied by TWO FULL-PAGE "PteTURES ON TfiICK --PAPER, AND WITHOUT LETTERpress or pictures on the, back, so that anyone so inclined' may take them out ,:for framing, illust^ltiye .of the past f and :^se present of* the maori. The ordinary- pictures in the issue * will be thoroughly '. Representative of Colonial Life, Embracing, such typical industries as the country is -noted Tor— Station and Farm Life, the Sheep Industry, Dairying, Shearing, the Gum Industry, Studies in Animal Life, Seascapes, landscapes, and the Beauty Spots of the Colony as a whole. ? THE LITERAiir.eGNTEKTS WILL. COMPRISE S^eeialiSrWritteii Tales BY FAVOURITE WRITERS, aach representative in its way of some phase of colonial life. Accompanying the number will be including two pictures in black and white specially drawn for this issue by the well-known artist, Mr Gr. HAMILTON HAMMON, who is at present on a prolonged sketching tour of New Zealand. These pictures are—; A BIRD'S-EYE-VIEW DF SYDNEY, . , A2TD . . A STUDY OF SSOUNT EARNSLAW, LAKE WAKATiPU, The third is a BEAUTIFUL COLOURED PLATE, "being a Charming Rural Scene— companion picture to the " Highland Cattle " plate of last year, which was received with so much favour throughout the length and breadth of the Colony,