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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6937, 29 October 1900, Page 4

■ ; PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ISso— Canterbury's Tttnt Half Century. Jubilee of the Province. 1900 fl SOCYENIR IN fIRT HND LITERHTDRE. The Canterbury Times Jubilee '';Niimber, : 3 : TO BE PUBLISHED f^ARLY IN : NOVEMBER. PRICE ONE SHILLING,

TO mark the dose of the first half century of Canterbury's settlement, the proprietors of the "CANTERBURY TIMESf" have been at great pains and expense to produce a Jubilee Number that shall be worthy; of the occasion. The progress made by the several provinces in New Zealand during the half century that will close with 1900 has been unique, and has hardly a parallel In the world's history. Prom a tangled waste of bush, of swamp, of tussook, of fern and oreeping undergrowth, fair fields of waving gram have been produced after a stubborn wrestle in which the toil.ofvthe husbandman has triumphed over the wilderness of the new land, that for unknown ages had been left to itself . The "force of rougher things'' has been applied by man as against the same force in Nature and the result ia ,what we see. around, us. Smiling homesteads dot now what fifty years ago was a scene so desolate as might well have given pause to the stoutest henrt that had left the ."happy. homes of England" in the hope of carving out another home for himself on the.new.soil of the land of promire. ;0n the site of what were at first V-hut hamlets, magnificent pities have risen, and, from every corner of the adjacent country around, them, roads that bear companion with many in the Homeland, thread their way from townships and villages, past farm and .cottage, past mansion and lowly home, crossing, rivers on ..their way by means of • efcnrdy bridges built at great expenditure of mean 6, to. ppur' their traffic into the • central towns and oities on whioh, like the roads of ancient Rome, they all converge/ Railways network a very large area of the colony, and by their operation have made possible a degree of development in industry and agriculture that would have been impossible in their absence. ' o . : . , But fit no part of New Zealand has the march of progress been more, tnubaphant, $r its track been more broadly and indelibly^, marked than in our own Canterbury, and to show the course of the profifress of the 'province during ihe firßt fifty years of ■AU'- History i$ the task that has been se_t ; i;hoßete : -whos6'\'han^d&^ 'fhepioductionof the : ■••■•/ . x^ i -':-.i:^'-. -' . : ■ ••■'. •-:■"• . ■■ ■'.t ■ . JUBILEE NUMBER 01* THE EJRBORY - r .• ■-,■.; •-■■■ r:, tiiiies.^ ,^i?; :rvi: lr:'K^ 1^ The invention of the process of photogravure, and the rapid strides toward* 1 ) = perfection it has made eino«>,. and all within the last decade, have made the task a. light ■ cne for those who have essayed in a eeries? of popular articles, a historical r •ketch of Canterbury ; as a true picture of things as thoy T»ere, when put before the . . eye, is always more effective than the best effort at word painting of the descriptive writer. In the production of the '■ -■ . .; •. . ;\ , . JUBILEE NUMBER OF THE "CANTERBURY :•'"■ . .;" '■■ times" ; v ;; ■• - ' • , the aid of this process has been extensively sought, and the pages of the number will be replete with scenes, of long ago. ' '■ These pictures- have been reproduced from sketches made by some of the early settlerß, before the camera had found its . way to these shores; from photographs taken in primitive fashion after it had . reaohedthem, but working under difficulties and great disadvantages ; and from the better photographß that were taken" in what might- be called the "Middle Ages" of our yet short history, when both amateur and prof essional^ photographers worked tinder more pleasing auspices, fleeing that with the material progress of the province . bad come more frequent communication with the Homeland, the great centre to a Briton of all that is highest in science, art, and literature. _ . > The Jubilee number will thus, present- to its readers the dual attraction of literature and art combined. /i - ' V THE LITERATURE Will comprise articles written by experienced journalists and other writers, and •aover the whole scope of the directions in which the colony has progressed, and in the way in which every patriot must be pleased to see progress made. Thete may fee referred to in brief detail as follows :—-:• A "RETROSPECT," (By TBrWAi-PotiNAMXJ.) . ffhis is a poem by a Canterbury poetess whose charming lines have on previous Occasions touched her readers' heartstrings, and in this poem she has found a subject bongenial. The poem is in three parts. Beginning with; New Zealand as it was in 1800, she details in beautiful language what the " liookers-bn," the " twin-mountain " 'it the Kaikouras, saw on the "lonely land, but sunny: fair/ over which their giant teaks cast silent survey. Her second part is devoted to the half century that ' Mosed in 1860, in which year the pilgrim fathers of- Canterbury came to these shores. Mfce twin mount lookfi down on scenes of death and 1 woe ; but slowly, surely Jomeß the reign of peace." Her third part— l9oo— sees the century complete, and in • flowing lines she tells of what is the Btate of things to-day as compared with what She haß been dealing with in her previous verses. "Cities have risen and fair towns irtand where once was desert, swamp, and sandy shore." This poem has had devoted to itself a whole page, and the three half centuries are suitably illustrated, •'OUR JUBILEE I « the editor's introduction to the work, and is also largely . retrospective, though a high hope for, and faith in, the future pervades the article. :;; . "A SHORT HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND Uan able article by a writer well qualified to deal with, such a theme. It begin* with what is known of the origin of the islands of New Zealand and carries their history on in graphic and winning language to the point -in New Zealand at which. Canterbury's history begins. Here another write? takes up the tale, and in an krricle headed CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION, ' Gives the history and work of the body under whose auspices the settlement of Canterbury was initiated. In the course of this article a most eloquent speech by Pev. Dr. Jackson, the Bishop-Designate of Lyttel ton, who' arrived in the Castle Gden and stayed but a few weeks, is quoted. In that address, which was delivered t? a crowded publio meeting at Exeter on August 1;' 1860, the aims and object* of the „ Canterbury Association, its hopes and fear, its high faith in a God-guided future, are let forth in the magnificent language of a gifted orator. Pausing here, a digression is made to deal with _ / " "THE MAORI WARS IN CANTERBURY," In which article the writer gives a short but sufficiently' lull account of both, the ancient arid' more modern tribal wars that were waged by the native tribes in this brovince against each other. He goes, also, into an interesting account of "OUR WHALING ERA' Under whioh title an article is given descriptive of whaling life as it was on Canterbury, shores before the dawn of that higher civilisation which came with the advent of the Association's emigrants, concluding with, a graphic description of a Whale chase from the pen of a writer in the early fqrties. Returning again to the : more immediate eubjeotof the settlement of Canterbury, an artioleis devoted to the historical . . l ,>;. "FIRST FOUR SHIPS," And a list of their passengers, followed by another in which attention is devoted to "THE ANTE PILGRIMS,' Ihe brave pioneers who sought the shores of .Canterbury -before the scheme of the , Canterbury Association had taken form. In'this article a shdrt history is given of 'fche French settlement at Akaroa; and' the cireumßtanceß :under which it was undertaken. Then comes an interesting account of ':„._.", • "1 „ , " THE EARLY PUBLIC WORKS OF CANTERBURY." Thia article has been compiled from authoritative data, a^d is followed by an ntewsting article on ... . ~.^.., I VV-.t--;^" h^" ■ ■'•'^- ''^--- -'■' '- .■-.'.-. ;":. r ;•::: j-. v : ' ; :/;^''thb::lyt*el^om i -^ti^w?i^ p^-^ [^~ To get which work undertaken was, until i^, completion^ th(Er,thoughts by '"day and ' ' the dreama by night of Mr. Sefton Moorhojuse; tti© Pupe|fw|^pdenfr of Canterburyj to ' '•- hose energy, perseverance, and even statesmanship, along' with the engineering ;. , : . skill of Mr. BdVracd Dobßon, the Provincial^ eng^ne^r,.wjio^ saw it through, from : tart to finish, the province owes a work".'f^o«n ;in&Bt''Bubstahtiai /benefits lave been derived, by opening a door of communication between the pore and the plains through an otherwise almost itapa^Bftble mountain" barrier. The scene then ' ' ' shifts to . ■ . i '■'■'.' '■.'■'-:.' .. : . ■■'■'■ ■■'"•'"' ■; '■

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