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Star (Christchurch), Issue 160, 16 November 1868, Page 4

/"t ABB AGE PLANTS.— Now on \ Sale by \J the undersigned, 12,000 Cabbage Plants, carefully selected varieties, to suit the season and climate, strong, and in perfectly healthy condition. Price, Is 6d per hundred. ALEXANDER M«K AY, Gardener, Hereford and Barbadoes streets. 1658 LYTTELTON AND PORT VICTORIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. nnHE First Exhibition will be held in the COLONISTS' HALL, ov ■ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, At which Prizes will be awarded for the be&* specimens of POT-GROWN PLANTS, CUT FLOWERS FRUITS, AND VEGETABLES. A prize is offered for the best Three WindowGrown Plants, for which no entrance fee will be demanded. NEW ZEALAND PRODUCTS EXHIBITION. . The Council will be happy to receive for exhibition without entrance fee, and for which certificates of merit will be given, and which may be sold. Dairy produce, articles of commerce, machinery, agricultural implements, cabinet ware, photographs, or any articles of vertu that may be considered of interest. Exhibitors are requested to have their exhibits at the hall before 10 o'clock on the morning of the Exhibition, and to furnish the Secretary with a written list of their exhibits. : No Entrance fee will be required for articles not entered for competition. JOSEPH CARDER, , 1642 c ■-,-■■■■ Hon. Sec. CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION, 1868. FIRST AND SECOND PRIZE MEDALS Awarded to W A R-iD & C 0., : .FOR THE EXCELLENCE OF THEIR ALES. nnHE Lyttdton Times in its report, speaking X of the unprecedented success of Ward and Co.'s manufßctcre', l remarks :— ' "There was a closeness of competition highly creditable to the province. All our Christchurch brewers competed, but the productions :of Ward and Co. were so superior, that they beat all others ,oufc of the field, &c."— bee Lyttdton Times, Nov. 11, 1868. WARD & CO.'S MILD ALE, At £5 per hogshead, is much esteemed by the trade. ; ; WAR!) & CO.'S. ■EAST INDIA. PALE, ALE '- •■■■■ ■■' Is universally: admired^ and '. '■' challenges, competition 'with apy : Imported brands for excellence of flavour, I lightness and brilliancy. Brewed to' • take tho place of English. CANTERBURY BREWERY. 1654 CONSTITUTIONAL, REFORM - ' ' ASSOCIATION. WE, the undersigned, believing the state of public affairs in. this colony to be full of peril : — that the war at present exfstiug will entail additional burdens on the people, already taxed to the utmost limit : — that the present excessive taxation paralyses the best efforts of the-' colonists, and prevents intending emigrants from coming to these shores : and believing, also, that the Colonial Government and the General Assembly, as constituted, can neither legislate for, nor admiuister satisfactorily, the affairs of -, the colony — Hereby form ourselves into AN ASSOCIATION With the following objects in view . — ] To return Members to the House of Representatives pledged to vote' against war expenditure for the sub jugatiori of the native race. To collect and diffuse statistical information, and endeavour, by public! meeting.Band all other lawful mean 9, to induce the people of both Islands .to petition . her Majority and the; Imperial Parliament to revise the' Constitution, and thereby obtain . separate legislatures for the Northern ..,'., and Middle Islands, with a Federal Congress for the establishment of a Customs Tariff; the maintenance of the public credit by payment of in- 1 terest and sinking fund on Colonial Loans ; *, the . management of tbc < ' Marine. Postal Services; . and pro] vising for and conducting externaj defence. * W. Wilson, Mayor of Charles Treleaven ; ■ Christchurch Wm. Mans'on G. Gould , John Studholme, W. Montgomery, M.H.R. M.P.C. Robert Swan