THE JUBILEE ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1540, 15 January 1887, Page 3

THE JUBILEE ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.

The covers which are to enclose the loyal address of congratulation passed by both Houses of Parliament last session to Her Majesty. on entering on her jubilee year are to be real works of art, judging by the following description in the Wellington Post” The address will be enclosed between covers of magnificentlymarked knot totara wood, with bevelled edges. Ihe front cover will be edged with a silver laurel wreath of most chaste design, and the polished bevelled edge of the wood will be covered with beautiful open silver work, representing with great artistic skill the lovely foliage of what is known as the Hew Zealand “ bush lawyer/ or bramble. At the corners are flax bushes. Inside this is a frame of polished greenstone, which surrounds a most striking and beautiful picture executed in inlaid woods. The background represents the wall of a Maori wbare, formed of toi-toi and reeds. The colors are all In native woods, and are most natural. In the centre there is a burnished mirror cf silver, bearing the words “To Ihe Queen." This is surmounted by so inner frame of close laurel leaves in frosted silver, and the outer frame of wood carved in old Maori fashion, and ornamented with inlaid pawa shell*, as all old Maori carviogs of the kind are. This frame is gracefully draped with Maori mats, executed in variously-colored native woods, and at the upper corners there are characteristic groups of spears and meres similarly executed. The whole is surmounted by a massive Imperial crown in frosted silver. Beneath ia a picture of a Maori war canoe, also of inlaid native woods. Tbs back cover has for i*a foundation totara knot wood similar in. all respects to the front one, and with bevelled edges, inside of which is s view of Waitembta harbor in the distance, with a superb tree in the centre of the foreground, s kiwi at its foot, a group of sabbage trees at the right, a native flaxbnab in flower in the left, the whole inlaid in natural colors in Nsw Zealand woods. The sunlit sky in the picture is beautifully represented by an artistic arrangement in honey-suokle. The inlay, ing has been entrusted to the celebrated artist in woodwork, Mr Seuffert, of Auckland, under Mr Kohn’a direction, and it is suite impossible to speak in terms of too warm praise of its completeness and beauty ; in fact, the covers of this address are a triumph of.artistic taste and skill, reflecting the highest credit on all con. cerned.” ' •