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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 1, 26 September 1907, Page 5

Writing to the London. "Times of July 23 last, Mr. Isidore'Spielmaiip, British Director for Art, .said.:— cr WHI you permit me to draw attcntion,;to tho! success achieved by the British Art-Section at tho_ Now ZoalancLlnternational Exhibition which cently held at Christcburch? > vions exhibitions tho British.' Art;Sa> tioa has frequently scored a succcss-o£ esteem. ' At Brussels, • 1897, Paris, 1900, and St. Louis, 3504, itTscas>?by common consent proclaimed tho best of all the foreign-art sections, Jmtrtho sales (for salo is a' matter of great consequence to\«xhibiting at these witli the exception of St. Louis, wereinsigmficant..At-"tho New Zealand Exhibition, however, to which thero vnvs sent at the leqrmst of the High. Commissioner, the Colonial Office, and-the Board' of Trade, the; largest, the most important, ana the most representative display of our modern school ever seen k" a British' colony, tho salo. of British i 'ctnros, sculpture, drawings,- and arts and crafts exhibits ha 3 exceeded.£l7,l)oo. This amount is, as far as I. am able to fudge, tho largest over expended in any art section at .any international exhibition; most certainly is this the case as regards recent international exhibitions. The result indicates, that there is a growing appreciation of> and demand for, British art h* our colonies, and this indication should: be welcome, not merely to British artists, on obvious grounds, but likewise*, .aa forging a new and a useful link •'between tbo colonies and tto Mother Country."

' Thorn, ontlily. meeting of tho Jjado pendent Political Labour Leaguo(TPollington Branch), will bo held at tho Trades Hall, Cuba Streot, to-morrow evoning, at 8 p.m. Tho election of now members, reports of deputations to local trades union brandies, and consideration of tho principal clausos of tho Industrial Conciliation Amendment Bill, will constitute tho business of the "meeting. Tho Hon. J. Rigg-is oxpected to attend.' .

The report of tho Select Committee appointed by' the Education Board to considor - Captain -T. W\ M'Donakl's proposals ;rc school athletics, will coino .up for'discussion at tho Board's meeting to-morrow afternoon.

Mrs. Ethel K. Do Costa, LL.B. (neo Miss Ethel- H. Benjamin of .Dun* d'mj. • after.• .practising far some years in that citv, has commenced practice r.s Barrister and Solicitor in .No. 8 Nathan's liuililiiigs. comer Gre.v and Foathcrston Streets, Wellington. Mrs Do Costa hr-s the distinction 'of being the enly lady piiictifiinK at tho Bar in tlio Dominion. IntointliiK clients «u> depend on-prompt arid careful attention at Kits. Do Costa's hands..