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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5737, 3 December 1896, Page 2

THE ILLUSTRATED CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF THB "CANTERBURY TIMES." NOW PUBLISHED. SIXTY PAGES PBICE PBOFUSELY , ILLUSTRATED. SIXPENCE* CONTENTS :- "BUILDING A NATION V THE COLONY'S PBOGBESS. %* This Historical Sketch should be read every Elector before Polling Day. ILLUSTEATED DESCEIPTIVE BKETCHES*THE CANTERBURY PLAINS' IN 1850-IN 1896. PASTORAL SETTLEMENT From Buns to Farms -The Elsthorpe Estote Closely Stocked Sheep at Longbeach The Frozen Meat Trade AGRICULTURE: • The Best Farm in the World In the Harvest Field • Thousands of Aores of Grain The Beapers at Work SETTLEMENT: .*< Cheviot: Before and Aftr The Last Shearing Tlie First Wedding The State Farm DAIRYING: A Successful Industry , A Model Factory A Dairy Form FRUIT-GROWIVG: A Source of Wealth Natural Advantages FLAX: A Native Product j An Important Industry MINING: Gold and Coal How the Precious Metal is Won Miners aM Their Surroundings Mining Townships MANUFACTURE* : Self-reliance, Progress and Success POLITICAL: A Progressive Nation Legislation and Prosperity "THE LAST SIX YE ARS:" EOME BESULT3. ELECTORS ! ; BUY AND EEADI SPECIAL CHRISTMAS STOBY «« THE PRINCESS OF ONAWE;" j BY MISS JESSIE MACKAY. A Bomantic Story of the Early Dayß on Banks Peninsula. CHRISTMAS PRIZE STORIES. THE BETTEB WAY— By the late Mr J. Slesser. THE STBANGEB MAIDBy Miss L. M. Bowley, Timaru. THE FATAL PICNICBy Miss G. Moore, Pahiatua. BASSANIO UP TO DATEBy Miss E. Isitt, Christchurch. CHRISTMAS READING (IN PBOSE AND VEESE.) CHEISTMAS VISITOBS AT ONSLOW GABDENS, by W. Pett Bidge. NEXT OF KIN, by George E. Sims. ANCIENT CHBISTIAN CUSTOMSPagan nnd Semi-Pagan Observances. THE MASTEB'S GEEAT LESSONJewels Five Wordß Long. CHBISTMAS EVE SUPEBSTITIONS. UNDEB TBOPICAL SKIESChristmas in the East. THE BUSSIAN SANTA CLAUS. YULE-TIDE MEMOBIES— The Sway of King Christmas. CHBISTMAS WITH BOYALTY— Festivities in the Palaco. THE EOMAN BEFANA— Twelfth Night in the Eternal City, CHRISTMAS POETRY. THE CHBISTMAS SONG OF C2EDMON. A CHBISTMAS CABOL. CHEISTMAS TIDE. THE BUSIED CHIMES OF CHBISTMAS. CHBISTMAS BELLS. THE BEST CHBISTMAS NUMBEB Ever Issued in the Colonies. SIXTY PAGES-PBOFUSELY ILLUSTEATED. PRICE SIXPENCE. Must be Bead by Everybody. On Sale by all Booksellers and Nowsagcutß in the colony.