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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 July 1910, Page 3

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WONDERS OK TIIK 01 AM PIA CARNIVAL. Writing a day or two before the opening, the Daily .Mail .said:—The fourth international hor.se .show promises to eclipse all previous records, and to bo the greatest event of the kind that ha.s ever taken place. . If anything wei'e needed to ensure the sae.-e.ss of the exhibition it is forthcoming in the announcement that Russia, for the iirst time, ha.s decided to send over a team of Cossack officers to take part in the international jumping competitions. OFFICER COMPETITORS. The number of military officers who are eiiteied a.s competitors from the different countries is as follows: United Kingdom ... 121 Franco 23 Belgium 0 United States ... 3 Italy 3 X«n\ay 3 Sweden ... ... 3 Greece ... ... 3 Russia, 3 X'.-arly every British- cav.alry regiment, is represented. Everything I lint money can command or ingenuity and taste devise has been done to make the show a spectacle of unexampled splendor. Kii(|uiries show that a sum gron.t.lv in excess of C 1,000,000 will be represented by tin's year's show, as the following estimate testifies: — Value of horse oxhibited ... .C">(),Ofifi Insurance value (for which policy is to bo taken out) 260.000 Box-office reciept.s 200,000 C:;:st of do-cra.tions ... o(),000 Amount, offered in prizes ... 13,000 Cast of posters 2,000 OF J) EXGLISH GARDEX. The 11010 show will be distinguished from its predeces-ors as represent.:'g an ciid Kngli.sh garden. The garden has for a setting the r. presentation of Lowther Castle, the Karl of Lonsdale's seat. There are two sloping lawns, and the grounds are being laid out under the direction of expert gardeners,. t!>a effect being very fine. Another ftature will be jm old toll-gate house, with its ait'tendants.

The royal box is being built as a recess in n floral promenade 900 van's in length, fitted with palms, trees, shnabs and flowers. It will take the .shape of a tea house in an eld English garden, with rustic doors and casement windows. The whole will be. covered with roses. As far as possible the design of tire decorations will be changed each day, and during the run of the show a staff of 100 gardeners will he on duty, half of them in the day time and half at night. A table compiled from figures furnished by tho contractor's gives at least a suggestion of the elaborate scale on which tho floral decoration have b:-:en planned. The scheme involves the employment of upwards of 50,000 potted plants. Tt may be added that this year's show incidentally involves tho use •of: — 30,00 square feet of turf. 1,000 loads of soil and tan (to form the bed of the arena). 500 loads of proper soil for the flowers and plants. Other are a couple of fountains, which will play all day, nnd their 'bases are being constructed into piofcuirtesque rookeries surrounding little pools.