THE EXHIBITION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 8698, 5 January 1907, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION.

Day by Day., (By Telegraph, Special Service.) Chbibtostoch, January 4. The Exhibition dog show attracted ft large attendance to-day, and, owing to its great success, will be continued for a third day to-morrow at a reduced price for admission. The magnificent Exhibition orchestra is becoming more popular day by day, and the large audience last night enthusiastically demanded no less than three extra numbers. Miss Milliccnt Heywood, piano soloist, was well received at last night’s concert, and Miss Phoebe Parsons sang with much success.

This afternoon a chamber music concert was given to a fair audience.

I Mr Massey, organist of the Bathurst '‘Cathedral, New South Wales, arrived toJday to give an organ recital, hut has postponed the first of these from tomorrow till Monday, so that he may have more time to acquire familiarity with the Exhibition instrument. Toboggan racing again drew a crowded attendance to Wonderland last night, and the time of the winning couplo was a record for the track. After the racing “ Demos ” shot the water chute on a bicycle, bis clothes saturated with chemicals and blazing furiously.

A constant succession of interested visitors has patronised the Maori pa. Up to the present 24,000 people have paid for admission.

The departure of tho Coot Islanders from the] pa, which lakes place on the 12th -inst. will., be compensated by tiie arrival of a large body of Wanganui and Ngatiporou Maoris, who are expected to be here very soon. The Cook Islanders on their,return home, via Auckland, will call at Otaki and Wanganui, where they will receive a welcome from local Maoris.

The Hon. AVilliam Knox, one of the Victorian ‘Executive Commissioners, and member of tho Federal House of Kcpresentatives, visited the Exhibition to-day and speaks warmly in its praise. He considers the whole design excellent and says the] dimensions of tho great fair are quite’equal;to his expectations. Ho expresses himself as much impressed by tho beauty of the position, and especially of the frontage, which, the meandering Avon much adorns. Tho whole arrangements show, lie thinks,] great enterprise and great design.

Tho Bosses o’ the Bam Band gives its first performance on Thursday next. The band will arrive from Wellington in the morning and will be met at the wharf by the Lyttelton Marine Band and escorted from tho Christchurch railway station to the hotel by the Garrison Band. It will receive a reception in the Concert Hall in the afternoon, and, in tho evening, will he escorted by six local bands to the Exhibition sportsground, where the first performance will be given. Enormous entries have been received from all parts of the colony and also from Australia for the International Band Contest, which takes place early next month. The next display of Pain’s London fireworks will be given on Monday next on the same extensive scale as on Now Year’s Eve. Mr Donne, general manager of the Tourist Department, stated in an interview that many residents in other parts of eplouy, who had stayed at home over Xmas tor tho sake of favorite holiday fixtures in their own localities, such as big races at Auckland, would shortly bo coming to tho Exhibition. Ho felt confident that the attendance at the Exhibition throughout the remainder of its currency would bo large. Investigation shows a very simple explanation of the fact that no large bodies of school children are visiting the Exhibition at present under special concession coaditioas. Both tho Railway Department and the Union Company suspended their reduced rates for school children during the holiday period from December 15th to January 15th. Again, the Union Company's fare of 12s return from Wellington only applies to boys in parties of from two hundred to three hundred, and by coming as cadets most of these boys can got down free in Government steamers. By tho time tho cadets leave school, who have arranged to make a free journey in this way, there are hardly likely to bo sufficient boys left able to make the journey at tho Union Company’s rail's in parties o f two hundred.

Wonderland’s Floral Fete, which was to have taken place on Thursday next has been postponed for a week, so as not to clash with the opening performance of the Besses o’ the Barn Band.