On Wednesday the stores and butchers’ shops of Wellington were decorated with a profusion of flowers and evergreens in honor of the festive season of Christmas, the dark green foliage and crimson flowers of the Rata serving as an effective substitute for the shining leaves and red berries of the Holly in our fatherland. There was a firstrate display of meat at the different butchers’ shops, which would have done credit to Leadenhall Market, and which afforded ample proof of the richness of the natural nastnrps nf ♦k; s co--*- — - one instance we may state that an "ox slaughtered at Mr. G. Luxford’s in Willisstreet, which had been kept on a run near the Town, weighed fourteen hundred weight. The noiinay folks on Christmas day were mostly bent on a. trip into the Country, and the greater part visited the Hutt, which seems to offer the greatest amount of attraction to those who desire the recreation of a country holiday.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 668, 27 December 1851, Page 3
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