THE EXHIBITION.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2538, 27 May 1882, Page 3

THE EXHIBITION.

THE MAYORAL CHILDREN'S PARTY.

One of the most interesting gatherings in connection with the Exhibition took place yesterday, when, in response to the kindly invitation of his Worship the Mayor, Mr Rnddenklau, and Messrs Joubert and Twopeny, about six hundred children enjoyed what to them will long be a red letter day at the Exnibibiticii, when Messrs Joubert and Twopeny, in conjunction with his Worship, announced their deoiro to entertain those children who, perhaps, under other circumstanoeß, oould never have had an opportunity of eeeing the Exhibition, or enjoying so thoroughly a day's outing as that of yesterday. To Mrs Ruddenklau first is due a large amount of praise for the warm interest and zeal with which she entered into and seconded the thoughtful hospitality of the Mayor, and next to his Worship for the liberality and kindliness of heart whioh prompted so interesting a gathering. Last, but by no means least, a word of praise is due to Messrs Joubert and Twopeny for the mandarin which they co-operated with the Mayor b»1 Mayoress to make the little festival of yesterday a success. About six hundred children availed themselves of the invitation, and, headed by the Burnham Band, marched from Cathedral square to the Exhibition, where they arrived. The Orphanage children were inoluded in the procession. The ohildren marched round through the different courts of the Exhibition, including the Art Gallery, till they reached the dais in the censert hall, on which the band took up their position. The tables were arranged in horse-shoe fashion, similar to those at the Fancy Dress Ball, and were loaded with cake, buns, fruit, lollies, pine apples, &s., &o. Gingerbeer and lemonade were also supplied ad lib. After the young people had eaten as only ohildren can of the good things provided, and also filled their pockets for their less fortunate brothers and sisters at home, Mr Joubert mounted a chair and asked for silence.

The Mayor then briefly addressed the children. He pointed out that they were all children of the Queen, although they were at the antipodes and the Queen in England. If they obeyed their parents and masters they fwere showing to the greatest advantage their loyalty to the Queen. He trusted that all would be good children, and that they had most thoroughly enjoyed themselves. He then asked them to give three cheers for the Queen, which was most heartily responded to. M. Joubert then mounted the dais, and in one of his felicitous speeches reminded the ohildren that the gentleman who had just addressed them, and who held the high and honorable position of Mayor of the city, had won that distinction by the three principles of honesty, sobriety, and diligenoe. The ohildren of the present day, ho would remind them, possessed great advantages over those of the period when the Mayor and himself were children, because a generous Govern ment now provided a good eduoation free to the humblest in the country. This was a glorious thing, and he trusted they would take the fullest ad vantage of it. The Mayor bad been most generous in his hospitality to the visitors on a former occasion, and now he thought that the kindly spirit displayed in not forgetting even the ohildren of the oity, showed "that the heart of the Mayor was in the right plaoe. He would now ask the children to give three cheers for the Mayor, at whose invitation speoially they were now present, and reminded them that eaoh boy amongst them had the chanoe of becoming a Mayor, if only bis oonduot was such as to deserve the honor.

The ohildren then gave three times three for the Mayor and Mayoress, in response to the call of M. Joubert.

M. Joubert then presented Mr Bowles, the bandmaster of the Burnham Band, with a handsome baton of ebony and silver, as a mark of appreciation on the part of himself and partner. He said that on a former occasion he had observed Mr Bowles conducting with a ruler, and now he had much pleasure in presenting him with a more appropriate badge of his office. The Mayor then said that the treat whioh M. Joubert had attributed to him solely was on the contrary as muoh due to the liberality of Messrs Joubert and Twopeny, who had given free admission to those unable to pay. He advised the boys to carefully study the exhibits in the building, and to remember that all these were made by men who were once boys, but who had by industry raised themselves to the top of the tree. He then called for three cheers for Messrs Joubert and Twopeny, which were heartily given. The Punoh and Judy show having been placed on the dais, gave an exoellent performance, highly delighting the ohildren. They were also introduced to the learned pig, the armless lady, and lastly paid a visit to Mr Woodroffe's glass blowing exhibit. During the luncheon Mr Hutchinson amused the children by a display of his mechanical toys. The ohildren, headed by the Burnham Band, loft the building about 3 p.m.

In the Italian Court, Signor F. Giorgi exhibits & number of statuettes and busts in marble and .alabaster. The first to require notice is a statuette of Diana, next to this is a marble bust of Maeaniello on a green serpentine base. Beyond this again is a statuette of Venus from that of Oanova. The other statuettes exhibited are " Marguerite," "David," "Venus," "Diana after the Bath," "The Greek Slave," "Hebe," and the two gems of the collection, "La Petite Baigneuse," by Tabacohi, the original of which created such a sensation in artistio oircles when exhibited at the Paris Exhibition, and brought £IOOO sterling. These statuettes are exceedingly good, and very excellent copies of the great masters. Along the front of the bay are displayed a large number of exquisitely worked alabaster card and other plates, the centre being of dark marble, with the heads of celebrated men in alabaster. The heads comprise—Raffaelle, Dante, Washington, Bocoacio, Tasso, Machiavelli, Miohael Angelo, Goethe, Galileo, Anosto, Petrarch, Shakespeare. One of the most noticeable items in the collection are two specimens of lava oarving, which for beauty and originality of design would be hard to beat. The two subjects represented are " Holy Day to Monte Virgino," and a peasant playing the Italian bagpipes. The oarving under the magnifying glass stands out beautifully, every feature and minor detail being most artistically brought out. Signor Giorgi also exhibits a large collection of oleographs from Milan, comprising caricatures and studies of fancy dress, whioh are exceedingly comical. There are also portraits of the King of Italy and the Queen Marguerite. Some exoellent aquagraphs are also therein, comprising "Lady in the Garden," "Woodland Scene," " St. Peters', Rome." The oil paintings, six in number, which are very good, come from Florence and Milan. They comprise a "Neapolitan Cottage," "Spanish Lady," "Forest Soene," "The Fisherman," "Italian Lady" (by Todesohini), " Farm House" (by Bonnifigliona). The " Spanish Lady" is noticeable from the softnesß of the flesh tints, contrasting with the sombre color of the hat and costume. A number of devotional piotures of all kinds are also exhibited. In the centre of the bay is a glass case containing cameo shells from Francati Santa Maria. These beautiful products are arranged in the shape of a pyramid, the highest one having carved on it the heads of Romeo and Juliet, with flowers, &s. This took Borne eighteen months to complete, and is a vary beautiful piece of work, the oarving being most delioate. The others are also very exoellent specimens of carving, one particularly, in which the pink and white cameo is blended : in a head in relief, being worthy of notice. There are about twenty-six varieties of shells exhibited. Signor Giorgi exhibits a large i collection of jewellery from Florence, Milan, Rome, Venice, Naples, &c. This includes Soameos, mosaics (Roman and Florentine), Etruscan lava, coral, jet, and also a large assortment of fancy goods in the shape of

straw work. Pisoni Brothers, Milan, send two chairs manufactured of ebony, inlaid with ivory, which are well worth notice. The same firm also exhibit a very fine collection of hats of all kinds, whioh are very light and well made. They alio have a good collection of umbrellas, whioh are fitted with automatic dosing apparatus. The proprietors of the Lombard* Chemical Factory of Milan send samples of quinine, whioh are very fine. Indeed, Signor Oiorgi took gold medals in all the classes in which he competed at the other Exhibition*. In the Italian Court is also exhibited by M. G. P. Bantifaller a quantity of wood carving from Groden, in Tyrol, Austria. This includes orucifixes, figures of all kinds. Madonnas, saints, goddesses, such as Flora,. Pomona, &c, most artistically oarved in different kinds of wood. The exhibitor is also the manufacturer, and reoeived gold medals at London, Paris, Vienna, Philadelphia, Paris 1878, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth. There is exhibited on one of the stands a very artistio group in wood carving, the subject of whioh is St. Michael slaying *he hydra. It is the work of M. Christian, Sotuffer, St. Ulrich, Groden, Tyrol, Austria. The group is certainly well worth looking at, and the artist was the first artist in wood carving in the schools at Vie»na. The same exhibitor also sends a quantity of toys of great variety. Amongst other noticeable toys is the William Tell cross-bow, by means of which muoh amusement can be got for the little ones. The ancient and never-to-be-forgotten Noah's Ark is here represented, the animals being carved out of solid wood, whioh are far stronger than the ordinary ones.

Messrs Allan sad Co. exhibit in the oonoert hall a glass case containing brass instruments, the main portion of which are from the celebrated firm of Besson and Co., London. These comprise instruments for a full military band, which are of good tone. A noticeable feature of the exhibit is that instruments of all classes are plated and elaborately engraved. One of these, a cornet, specially manufactured as a presentation instrument, is remarkable for the beauty and artistio excellence of the engraving and plating. The body of the instrument is strongly electroplated, while the bell and points are richly gilded. The engraving is wonderfully carried out, butterflies, birds and flowers being the subjects chosen for what is really a work of art. A very handsome military bugle with tassels, &s., is well worth notice, and generally the collection is cbo, both from an artistic and musical point of view, which deserves high commendation. In the same case are some military band instruments sent by Mr Joseph Higham, Manchester. These are very elegant in model, solid in make, and wonderfully clear and rich in tone. The special feature in this exhibit is the dear bore oornet, an instrument manufactured on a new principle, whioh is generally in use in England and the other colonies by solo players. It has been patent to all musicians that the valve notes in the cornets manufactured on the old pattern have never been as clear as the open notes, the cause being that by the construction of the valve the passage through it was oblique for the valve notes, but perfectly dear for the open notes. In Mr Higham'e new instrument, which he styles the clear bore cornet, the passage is the same, whether the valvos are pressed or not. It may be mentioned that Besson and Co. have received thirty-two medals of honour from all nations since 1837. One of the most notable of the exhibitors in the Exhibition is Miss Flood. People would imagine that Miss Flood, as a lady, would be oonneoted with sewing machines, millinery, jewellery, or some such women's ware. But it is not so. Miss Flood represents a most useful artiole, but at the same time most opposed to the notion of what a lady would represent, viz , a pump for irrigation. But while this is so, Miss Flood, by her energy and perseverance in working her business, or rather that of her father, has earned for herself, from one of tho promoters of the Exhibition, the somewhat anomalous distinction of being the best " man " of business in the Exhibition. Suffice it to say that Miss Flood loses no opportunity of expatiating most eloquently, particularly to the bucolio element in the visitors, on the advantages possessed by the pump she represents, and it is rarely that a farmer leaves the corner in whioh, spider-like, she has established her office, without a pnmp being sold. The pump itself, which is situate in the annexe just off the main entrance, is a water lift designed by Mr F. Flood, of Melbourne, which has taken first awards at both the Adelaide and Perth Exhibitions. It is portable and remarkably simple in its working, although great things are claimed for it in the way of economy and lifting oapacity. The prinoiple upon whioh it works is that of an endless ohain pump. To the chain are attached at intervals plugß specially manufactured by Mr Flood. They are of iron encased in leather, and are described as indestructible. They, moreover,} have the effect of diminishing the vibration, and will not shrink or swell. There seems no doubt, from repeated trials, that an enormous amount of useful work can be done with these pumps compared with the amount of power expended. For example, it is claimed that with the aid of this water lift 100 teni of water oan be raised from a depth of twelve feet at a cost of less than one shilling. This quantity of water would be equivalent to an inoh of rainfall on an acre of land. The coat of raising, of course, however, varies with the depth. The pumps are fitted when required with horse works, belting, &■)., but can be also nsed with manual labor. Thus, with a lfin cylinder one man oan lift 14 gallons of water per minute from a depth of 35ft, and with a sin cylinder one horse oan lift 300 gallons per minute from a depth of 10ft. These figures will give some idea of the calculations that have been made as to the working capacity of the lift. It has been used in many parts of Australia with extremely satisfactory results for filling dry lagoons, dams tanks, &3., and irrigating various localities.