THE EXHIBITION

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8776, 2 April 1907, Page 3

THE EXHIBITION

Day by Day. By Telegraph—Special Service. CiniisTOHUKCH, April 1. Now Zealand attended its Exhibition today in immense numbers, the multitude that surged and crowded through corridors all day having drawn its units one would think from every part of the colony. Bain fell in the morning and early part of the afternoon, causing the crowd to concentrate to a largo extent inside the building, which has probably never hold so largo a multitude since show day in November last. Canterbury Bands of Hope demonstration, which was bold at the Exhibition after procession through city, was taken part in by a great number of youngpeople.

One of tbo most memorable events in the musical history of the Exhibition should bo the appearance in the Concert Hall next Wednesday and Friday evenings of Madame Blanche Arral, tbo famous French soprano, in conjunction with the Exhibition orchestra, This will afford an opportunity of hearing Madame Arral in her operatic arias to the he»t advantage. The items on the progiammc will ho selected from the operas -‘La Trayiata,” “Bo Caul, ‘ Dinorah,” and “Mignon. 11m Exhibition authorities have consented to allow holders of tickets for these two concerts free admission through the turnstiles of the Exhibition. The Canadian Commissioners will delight ten thousand schoolchildren during the present week. They have had manufactured ten thousand sugar cakes from maplo syrup that has been on exhibition £a their court, and each pupil who visits the court will be presented with a cake as an Easter gift. The attendance to-day just missed hreak;n„ the record, the total being 44,7-17, as against 45,348 for Show day. The takings at nearly all the side shows and the attendance at the art gallery and in the concert £all in the afternoon passed the record, The culminating feature of the magnificent Ja§t display of fireworks in the evening was an immense triumphal arch giving the approximate attendance to date, with the words, “ Well done, Munro.” The arch was loudly cheered. The aggregate attendance is 1,720,133.

Concert Hall was packed for t’ljp on^qnrecital by Ur. Bradshaw, (d Olir'isfcolWch Anglican Catheral', and the orchearal concert in the #fterooun, and a second concert by the Dunedin Philharmonic Society attracted crowded and enthusiastic audiences. The musician who contributes articles on Exhibition music to the Press, referring to the large andieace at the first concert of the Philharmonic Society, which was exceeded if anything to-night, says that the presence of such an audience, despite powerful counter attractions, “affords convincing proof of the rapidly developing taste for orchestral music, hundreds in the space of a few mouths having become habitues at the Exhibition Concert Hall, intent on the 'full appreciation of the works produced, the most gratifying results of the labours of Uj Alfred Hill. The feeling akin to s|upefaetion, so evident awhile ago, snif the worried facia], expression indicating despair of following the mysteries and intricacies of the great masters’ works, has given way to an appearance of quiet, happy enjoyment, joined with a desire to absorb and discriminate.”