THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2000, 22 July 1880, Page 3

THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

The Exhibition, which during the past week has attracted so large a concourse of people, came to a conolusian lust night. There was a largo attendance of visitors, and at 10 p.m. Mr R. Allan, chairman of the committee, mounted the band stage, accompanied by the members of the committee, and said:—

Ladies and gentlemen,—The committee desire publicly to express their very great gratification at the splendid results of this Exhibition, and we assure you that it is a pleasure that comes not so much from the financial result (although that is by no means disagreeable), as from the knowledge that during six days 23,000 people have visited, and evinced tho keenest interest in everything in connection with the Exhibition, and we sincerely hope that the deep interest that has been awakened will not die out with the closing, but that you (the public at largo) will do everything in your power, by giving the preference wherever you can to our own productions, and by joining the Industrial Association, and in whatever way you can practically assist the cause of local industry ; and in doing this you will help to pave the way to future industrial displays that will, by their magnitude and splendour, dim the lustre of this our first Industrial Exhibition. The Government, at the request of the committee, appointed a commission to examine and report upon this Exhibition, and we think they will gather a lot of information that must prove serviceable. To the exhibitors wo say we regret that the limited space at our disposal prevented you from making all the disploy that you were capable of, but we think you will give us credit for having tried to act impartially towards all. Wo sincerely hope that the industries you represent will flourish, and that many an industry only represented here to-day in embryo will develop into thriving businesses. We very much regret that the room has prevented us from doing justice .to the pictures, as they have helped materially to make this exhibition attractive. You will all be glad to know that the financial results have loft a handsome surplus, which will bo strictly applied in the cause of local industry. Ladies and gentlemen, all things must have an end, and although wo have spent some pleasant and instructive hours here, and the interest appears as great as on the opening day, it has become my almost sorrowful duty now to pronounce the Industrial Exhibition, 1880, closed.

The band then played the National Anthem, and the Industrial Exhibition of 1880 was a thing of tho past. The committee and a few friends assembled at the hospitable board of the entrepreneur, Mr Morton, when the healths of the president and secretary were drunk with enthusiasm.