THE EXHIBITION.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2470, 7 March 1882, Page 3

THE EXHIBITION.

The opening ceremony will take place as previously announced on Easter Monday, AprillOth. The gates will be thrown open at 9 30 a.m., and closed at 10.25 a.m., the one charge for admission to all but invited guests and holders of season tickets being sa. Tho programme will be as follows His Excellency tho Governor will be received at 10.30 a.m, punctually at the gates by the Mayor and City Council of Christchurch, the members of the committee of judging and awards, together with the promoters, by whom he will be led up to the dais, the bands playing God Save the Queen. The Most Rev. the Piimate having read an inauguration prayer, the. Artillery band will play the Exhibition March specially composed for the occasion by their leader, Mr Hamilton. The promoters will then present an address to his Excellency, setting forth the objects of the Exhibition, after replying to which he will declare the Exhibition open. The cantata (Mendelssohn’s lobgesang) will then bo sung by the Christchurch Musical Society, under the leadership of Mr H. Wells, and accompanied by the Anstrlan Band, nnder Herr Braun. His Excellency will then visit the varions courts of the Exhibition. At tho entrance to each court he wi'l bo received by the exhibitors, who will be presented to him by the promoters. At 12.30 the pnblio will be admitted at the fixed rate, which will be maintained throughout, viz., one shilling. Messrs Joubert and Twopeny have received telegrams from Anstiia making application for six more bays, andjehey state that applications continue to pour in from all parts of New Zealand. They are also in treaty with the Melbourne agents for Edison’s electric light, to illuminate the four quadrangles devoted to implements, by means of four two-light stands. A large illumination will also be placed above the principal entrance to the Exhibition.