Hobart Exhibition.
AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. | Per Press Association.] Hobakt, November 15 The Exhibition was opened to-day with great ceremony, A procession numbering 1000 inarched through the streets to tho building where the Governor, Lord Gormanstou, formally declared the Exhibition open. This Day. Tho various courts are in a pretty forward state. •<•«•,...• A somewhat extraordinary scene occurred just pripr to tjje opening of the oxhibjtiqn. The phoir, pousis,ting pf $20 ygiee^i protested that the flags used for tho deooi-ations. mq ftjmost pbscqred by the singers, Mho clamored lok their re.nioval, and thej' wore supported by the audience. The Executive refused to gj?a»t tho request, but just as His Excellency entered the bnikliug the strup. turo holding tho Hags was pulled down under instructions from one or two members of tho executive.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 120, 16 November 1894, Page 2
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