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the "Derby" of seven hundred and fifty sovereigns. "Cup Day," if not such a grand 

 affair as the great event of " Carnival Week " at Melbourne, evokes quite as much 

 interest in the Christchurch world of fashion, and the array of brilliantly attired 

 beauty which Canterbury can furnish forth on a gala occasion is not to be despised even 

 by those who measure every display of the sort by the Flemington standard. There 

 are three theatres in the place, and an equal number of public halls, while social, 

 athletic and volunteer organizations are as numerous and flourishing here as elsewhere. 

 A private gas company contracts for the lighting of the city, and the water-supply is 



derived from an excellent system of artesian 

 wells. Drainage has been one of the most 

 serious difficulties with which the people have 

 had to cope, and it has been found necessary 

 to maintain a drainage board to give it un- 

 divided attention. 



Christchurch is a recognized seat of indus- 

 trial activity. It possesses flour-mills, foundries, 

 implement manufactories, boot, carpet and car- 

 riage factories, brass and copper works, breweries, 

 potteries, pickle, sauce and jam works, fell- 

 mongeries, tanneries and biscuit factories, besides 

 a woollen factory and glass-works at Kaiapoi, 

 fourteen miles north of Christchurch by rail. 

 The Kaiapoi Woollen Company has a capital 

 of one hundred thousand pounds ; and, besides 

 a staff of two hundred and fifty at the mill, it 

 employs upwards of four hundred and fifty per- 

 sons in its clothing factory. The cloth pro- 

 duced at the mill, among prizes innumerable, counts a gold medal won at the 

 Sydney Centennial Exhibition in 1888. The tweeds, blankets, rugs, shawls and hosiery 

 produced at Kaiapoi are not excelled anywhere. In engineering establishments Christ- 

 church is not a whit behind the other chief cities of New Zealand, and one local firm, 

 that of Messrs. Scott Brothers, has lately achieved the distinction of manufacturing the 

 first ten locomotives constructed in the colony. Their works cover about an acre of 

 land in Manchester Street, and the firm have an auxiliary establishment in the vicinity 

 of the Lyttelton Graving Dock. As might be supposed, Christchurch being the centre of 

 the richest agricultural territory in New Zealand, the business of pork-packing is carried 

 on there upon an extensive scale. One establishment, that of Mr. T. H. Green, disposes 

 of between seven thousand and eight thousand pigs every season, and possesses facilities 

 for dealing with one thousand pigs at one time. In the various departments of trade 

 connected with grain and wool, Canterbury takes the lead in New Zealand. It must 

 also not be forgotten that to Christchurch enterprise, in the first instance, the colony 

 owed that magnificent commercial venture, the New Zealand Shipping Company, which 

 has done so much to improve the carrying trade of the colony, although it has not 

 proved a profitable investment for the share-holders. The rapid dispatch furnished by 



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