THE PARIS EXHIBITION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1929, 27 August 1888, Page 3

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

« (FnOM OUB OT7K CORKEBBONDBNT. ) The Financial and Managing Oommlttee of the 1889 Exhibition, held a meeting the other day under the presidency of M. Perse Legr&nd, Minister of Commerce. Various concessions, were approved, the most note worthy balng to the water color painter?, the partelliste, th^> Transatlantic Oorupiny, and the promoters of the Tout Paris Panorama, of a terreetUl globa to a millionth scale, of au'ortutio woighlng-msohlnes, etc. EsUbHuhtnenta for eleotr zttlou and Instantaneous photography will nlao be Installed m the gardens of the. Exhibition. A space of 2000 eqaaro metres was granted for the construction of a children's palace, wherein will be established the toys, gomes, and other infant delights "f nil nations. The tenders Invited foe th,a laying down of tramways m the Exhibition buildings have hitherto yielded no result. The Committee In the hat place considered the question of according a special authorisation to the representatives of cer tain Oriental countries to sell their exhibits. This exception to the general rule was approved, Bubjeot to the premise tbat the artio ea thus offered toe Bale are original and boua fide products of the countries m question. A Committee was also recently formed, to prepare the necessary plans for the organisation of a geological museum In the subterranean g«lleries nnder the Trooaddrs; The space reserved for the museum will be 600 metres m length, the galleries being 3 to 5 metres In breadth and 3 metres 40 oontlmotrea m height. Two pavilions m the Btyle of the Trocadera itself will m*rk the entrance to and exit from the galleries, and will bo erected on the right and left of the central rotunda. Amongst other sights on view here will be an exact reproduction, for a distance of Borne thirty metres, of the Paris aovreroß, with the gas and water pipes, telegraphlo and telephonic, wires, pneumatto tubes, etc: The Parliament of Monte Video and Uruguay has voted a first credit of 250,000 francs towards the participation of the Rcpabllo m next year's Exhibition. The Committee have considered and approved the details of M. Charles Gartner's Boherae for the erection of a aeries of bulldingß to represent the history of dwellings ; M. Alpham reported that all the contracts for the various works had been advantageously plioeo 1 . Among the numerous congresses that are being organised for the occasion of the 1789 centenary, that of Women's Rights will certainly be one of the most ourioua. At a general meeting of the r&dbratlon deßFemmep, Mlloßarbarousae and &I. Juleß Allix explained the chief points of thci proposed programme. The Feminine Oongreßß is to last a month, but will not sit every day during that period The eff-daya will be dovoted to concerts and theatrical performances by the members, to which husbands and other male offenders will be admitted. During eight days the congress will be International, In honour of the expected visit of the members of the Women's Rights Congress held m Washington In March last. The Committee entrusted with the organisation of the International Agricul* thre Congress to be held during the oourse of next year's Exhibition met for Ihofiret time the oihar day. M. Meline, President of the Chamber, was elected Choirman. A special committee of five gentleman was also named to enter Into correa pondenca on the^flnbj^ct with the various Agriculture Societies of Europe and America. A report by M Leo Dellbe«i, embodying a scheme for a musical Exhibition illustrating the history and progress of the art of melody during the past ten centuries has been adopted by the first section of the musical Committee of the 189! great world's fair. It is proposed to giv< eight grand concerts In tho Trocader'a bj the five leading -oroheßtras of Paris sociefie des concerts, opera, opera comfqu© concert Lamoureun, and Colonne, (he pro bable cost of the soheme being estlmatec 100,OOOFr. m i ] The Minister of Commerce has also beei j ' ofllcially informed that a committee hni ■ 1 been formed m Paris to organise tin t participation of Norway io the exhibition, ) rrfessor Ojbroch occupies the position o 7' President of, this Committee. M. Fibatzi mann has been named Gommiaßory-