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Star (Christchurch), Issue 162, 18 November 1868, Page 4

LYTTELTON AND PORT VICTORIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. rpHE First Exhibition will he held in the COLONISTS' HALL, ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, At whicli Prizes will be awarded for the bes 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. Tbe 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 ball 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. CONSTITUTIONAu REFORM ASSOCIATION. TTTE, the undersigned, believing the state » » of public affairs in this colony to be full of peril :-— that the war at present existing 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, aB constituted, can neither legislate for, nor administer 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 jugation of the native race. To collect and diffuse statistical information, and endeavour, by public meetings and all other lawful means, to induce the people of both Islands to petition her Majesty 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 interest and sinking fund on Colonial Loans ; the management of the Marine Postal Services; and providing for and conducting external defence. W. Wilson, Mayor of Charles Treleaven Christchurch Wm. Manson G. Gould John Studholme, W. Montgomery, M.H.R. M.P.C. Robert Swan R. H. Rhodes. M.P.C. Walter Kennaway, W. Reeves, J. P. M.P.C. James George Hawkes, Chas. S. Howell M.P.C. C. R. Blakiston, J.P. Joshua S. Williams, William Black M.P.C. Edward Richardson R. J. S. Harman, J.P. David Morrow W. H. Wynn Wil- R. M. Morten Hams, M.P.C. Janies Wood, saddler A. Hornbrook, M.P.C. L. E. Nathan Jas.S.Turnbull.M.D. W. J. Mills John D. Enys, J.P. C. C. Aikman Courtney Nedwill, B. Petersen &Co M.D. C. Prebble L. Harper IT. Montgomery W. G. in man J. Woodford Frank Pitt C. W. Turner T. Nottidge G. Simmons Forster F. Nixon J. G. Ruddenklau C. Clark Thos. Osborn Alexander J. Walker Thos. Pye Chas. Kiver, jun. David Nairn Thomas Fisher, M.D. E. Mitchell H. P. Murray-Ayns- John H . Caton ley, M.P.C. Alex. Matthews Wm. Norman A. Ayers H. IT. Hennah David Scott George W. H. Lee Henry A. Scott, J.P. W. H. Lane J. H. Bennett W. Sidney Smith W. Savage F. W. Delamain,M.P.C.M. Dixon, M.P.C A. McLean H. C. West J. C. Helmore W. Hislop T. H. Wigley, J.P., C. Fredk. Beeby and M.P.C. Nelson H. S. Brown M. Sandstein E. 11. Maude i P. Laurie R. Walton Robert Sutherland John Griffiths W. L. Hawkins Jno. Morgan Thos. Harrison G. T. Chisnall T. Wallace & Co. Fred. W. Thiel Frederick Hobbs W. Hall William Hobbs H. F. Poore W. H. Hobbs J. W. Oram Edwin Oatway Alfred Simpson Henry Nicholls- Richard Robinson Wm. Storer Fred. Lane Colton Fowler Hyman Marks