ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 253, 20 December 1878, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

[We are at all times ready to give expression to every shade of opinion, but in no case do we hold ourselves responsible for the sentiments of our correspondents.]

THE LATE EXHIBITION

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail.

Dear Sir, —Having been present at the judging of numerous picture galleries in London and other places, I may perhaps be allowed a little space in your valuable paper to write a few words on the exhibits of the Horticultural and Industrial Exhibition. In regard to the judging, especially of the pictures, we decidedly differ in many opinions. In the carving we cannot think how wood carving could in any way bo shewn against parva shell; it is like placing jewellery and carpentering together. In the drawing for children under eighteen, we cannot help noticing a crayon sketch being exhibited against lead pencil. We do not know who the judges were, but we cannot help thinking that the way in which the things were mixed up hardly gives a fair chance to exhibitors. As far aa cone work went, there was a very good show,"_mong which we observed several picture frames, baskets, &c. In models we noticed a little steam-boat, on which many flattering remarks were passed. A CARFUL OBSERVATOR.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail.

Dear Mr Editor, —I am a little boy under fourteen, and one of the competitors at the Akaroa Industrial Exhibition on Monday last. I think the little boy also under fourteen who sent the piece of illuminated writing from Little River should have been awarded a prize for his work by the judges. The examples of mapping from Robinson's Bay School were, I think, very good, and should have had some sort of special mention. I am an Akaroa schoolboy, but like every other schoolboy, like to see fair play. This, Mr Editor, was not exactly the matter I started to write about. As one who hopes to be a competitor at the Akaroa Industrial Exhibition for many years to come, I, with many other little boys, would like

to see the committee's different prtzes marked and numbered before the judges make their awards. This, of course, would not throw the invidious task on the committee of selecting the prizes for persons instead of for works in the schedule. I, as I have said, am only a little boy, and therefore am not a judge of little girls' work, but it struck me that at the distribution tf prizes tbe awards were out of all proportion to tbe amouut of work done by little girls. I also think the giving of a box of mathematical instruments for the drawing cf a bird with a big ink blot under its tail was the finest piece of crewel work exhibited. I do not understand these matters much, but I hope, Mr Editor, you will let my letter appear in the Mail, with a view of setting right what my Pa calls those anomalies before next exhibition. Your_ truly. SCHOOLBOY.