INDUSTRIAL & FINE ARTS

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 1, 27 October 1883, Page 2

INDUSTRIAL & FINE ARTS

EXHIBITION. The Industrial and Fine Arte Exhibition has, up to this point, we are pleased to say, been an unqualified success. The attendance has been unexpectedly large, and the greatest interest in the movement has been manifested by the public. The whole of the exhibit* have been universally admired, but more especially those which have been produced by the skill and industry of the exhibitors. We gave a few brief mentions of some of these articles in our last, but regret that, owing to the defective compilation of the catalogue, we hr.ve been unable, in a large number of instances, to determine which exhibits are rea* y the productions of the exhibitors tl_.n elves and which are not. The cosy and amp mat by Mrs Kurtain, cushion by Mrs Sigley, and bead-worked cushioirjby Miss Murchie, are well worthy of notice, m being the personal work of those ladies. Tlpo flower show proved most attractive oa Thursday night, aud the visitors were highly gratified by the excellent rendering of several songs by Captain Porter and his daughter, Mr Parnell, Ala .ter De Costa and Mr James Booth, the comic song of the latter, which was rendered in Maori, causing much amuse* ment.