THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 25 February 1907, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

• o iEPARATIONS FOE FIRE JUH GADES' DEMONSTRATION.

By Telegraph.—Special Service. Christcliurch, February 24. Tlie attendance at the Exhibition was again big on Saturday. There was a large audience at the organ recital given by "VV. 11. Monk, the Sydney organist. Mr Monk was assisted by his brother, of the Exhibition Orchestra, who iplayett fceveraS viojiiin solos. In the evening a vocal and'instrumental concert was given, at which -Mrs Arthur Med acquitted herself well as a vocalist. The arrival of 122 iiawke's Bay Maoris gove a numerous population to the pa. They will give performances of pois, hakas, and war dances daily during their stay. The Amateur Atlilletic Society championship meeting was concluded on the sports ground on Saturday in the presence of about a thousand spectators. The second season of the Besse Band will commence ou Thursday next, and performances will be given every afternoon and evening in the ' sports ground during their fortnight's visit. Extensive preparations are being made for the display of daylight fireworks, to take place next Saturday. . These fireworks, which are an entire novelty to New Zealand, are a Japanese invention. Shells will be, thrown up into the air,- where they will hurst emitting lighting cocks, horses, riders, birds and fish, swarms of butterflies, and many other curious contents Special arrangements are being made to enable school children to witness this exhibition, and a record attendance of young people is expected. Arrangements arc now almost complete for the Motor Car Gymkhana, to be held by the Canterbury Autoniibile Association on the Exhibition

spurts ground on March y. A large number of cars will take part In n procession through the city to the Inhibition, niul Hie programme will include some highly novel events. Entries lor the Pet Show, to be held iu the "Wonderland" on Friday, March 8, close on .Monday, March 4. Already a largo variety of pels have been entered. The week of lire Brigades' ■competitions, which will take place on the sports ground, commencing March 111, should be one of the most important the Exhibition has yet seen. Teams from eighty Brigades will take part in the contests. One hundred Brigades altogether will be represented, end over SOU firemen will be engaged in the competitions. On the cveniii" o Tuesday, March 111, n water d'sphiy will be given on Victoria Lake, oil highly novel lines. The lake wdl be surrounded by lire Brigade steamers, and twelve or fourteen branches ol hose will be led to tile cciure of the lake, whence they will throw up powerful jets of water to the heghl (,! )."><) feet, making the lake resemble one gigantic fountain, whose columns will be lighted from beneath by changing sotoured pieces, Human candles

and oilier pyrotechnic devices. On the following evening 100 boats containing firemen discharging fireworks will form a procession on the river, led by two motor launches carrying the teams' bands. On Thursday evening an elaborate water display w.ll be given with the, entire plant, and on Friday night, when the prizes will be presented by the judges, 1000 firemen and guests will dine together publicly in the main corridor. In the course of the water display, it is intended to send up iU.OUII gallons a minute, ami another novel feature will be a test ol all the chemical engines in Hie Kxhibilion. Large sized, small, and medium buildings will be erected on the spoils ground, which will be set lire to. and the flumes will lie extinguished by dill'erent engines in the presence of competent judges, who will time the respective performances and decide which chemicals are most effective for their work.