THE EXHIBITION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2024, 8 March 1907, Page 3

THE EXHIBITION.

(By Telegraph Special Service.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The attendance at the Exhibition to-day was 13,376. The flower show and the performance of the Besses o’ th’ Barn Band have lost none of their spell. The orchestra also drew a large attendance both afternoon and evening. Through the kindness of the general manager of the Exhibition, the cadets were enabled to witness the fireworks and listen to the Besses o’ the Barn Band last , night, general leave having been granted for that purpose. Both the West Coast and Hawke’s Bay battalions leave for tho north to-morrow by the To Allan. The Palmerston North battalion will immediately take their place for next Wednesday night, which will sec the last performance of tho “Besses.” A combined programme of fireworks, alternating with band selections, has been arranged. The exhibits at the Wonderland pot show to-morrow will include a great variety of pets, such as pigs, hedgehogs, donkeys, lambs, and tortoises, besides more ordinary domestic favorites.

Several members of the committee of the Canterbury Automobile Association paid a visit to the Exhibition sports ground this morning with a view to testing the suitability of the track for the purpose of a motor car gymkhana, which will be held next Saturday afternoon. Various events were rehearsed and members expressed the opinion that the track was eminently suitable. A double attraction of Saturday afternoon will be the conjunction of the “Besses” with the gymkhana.

The Canterbury College Sports Association have definitely decided to hold their annual-sport's "gathering on the sports ground on Saturday week. Numerous applications arc being made daily by various schools and colleges for various agricultural sets and cotton pods in the Fijian court, which is one of the most novel and popular in the Exhibition. Arrangements are being made by which all articles for distribution will bo handed over to the Secretary of the Education Board at the close of the Exhibition for division among the different schools. Letters have been sent to all the principal football clubs in the colony, inviting them to send teams to take part in a football tournament which it is proposed to hold in April. The Confetti Carnival, which it is suggested should be the closing feature of the Exhibition, should prove a unique and mirthful function. These carnivals are regularly held in the streets of Paris and other large Continental towns at certain holiday seasons, when people, masked and wearing fancy costumes, parade the street showering all and sundry with confetti and throwing strings of colored paper, which wind themselves about a person like lassoos. Confetti carnivals, combined with other amusements, have been introduced with much success into a large number of towns in the United States by an American company, which is offering to conduct the function at the Exhibition.