THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 27 February 1907, Page 3

THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

By Telegraph.—Special Service. | Chistchurch, February '26. There has been a good attendance at the Exhibition all day. A special excursion train from Dunedin, which brought passengers at reduced fares from suburban and country stations, introduced about 200 visitors. The Hawke's Bay Maoris, over 120 strong, gave a splendid display of dances in the pa, quite upholding the reputation gained by their fellow-tribesmen who preceded them. The Maori stockade erected in the sports ground for the recent tattoo is being shifted to the pa in connection with the elaborate sham fight which will be held between two parties of Maoris on Thursday afternoon. Exclusive of the sales to the Adelaide Art Gallery, the following are the chief sales of pictures from the British section of the Art Gallery made since the beginning of the year: —Oils: "Southward from Surrey's Pleasant Hills," by B. W. Leader, catalogue price £500; "The Portsmouth Road," by C. J. Holmes, £75; "Cottages by the Exe," by Alfred Parson-. 1£355; "Through the Wood (near Barbizon)," by Sir Ernest A. Wurlow. |£275. Water colours: "Kentish ' Cornfields," by Mrs Allingham, £3O; "The Lost Ferret," by Torn Brown, !£10; "Divided Attentions," by Lucien Davies, £SO; "the Leaf," by Eliza S. Forbes, [£3 l; "Spring in the Highlands," bv George Houston, £ls; "English "Roses," by E. Honvitz, £3l 10s; "Off Duty," by Sir James D. L nton, £3O; "The North Meadow, CrickHaJe," by A. Parsons, £4O: "From th Depths of the Sea," by J. R. Reid, [£44; "Winter Sun Effect over Westminster," by A. Severn, £10; "Brnlo Bay," by Frank Walton, £3l 10s; '"A Dorset Cottage," by Mrs Allingham ( f£9o; "Amiens Cathedral frotai the Choir," by Sir Wyke Bavliss (deceased) £115; "A Roman Gar' :." by A. C. Gow, R.A.. '£Bo "Le Cap lie Carteret," by Yond King, £3O 15s; wear Windermere," by A. T. Nowell. f.£3l; "A Surrey Chalk Pit," by Sir E. J Povnter, Bart.. £130; "Small Fsh,' by Frank Dodd. £125. Etchings have been sold to the value of £75 Bs. Sculpture: "Mother and Child, hi bronze, by P. Montford £l2; A Mcttv Babe," marble bust, by H. Ber»ram Pegram, £OS; "The Mowviv lironze statute, by 11. Tlwrneycroft. T£so* "Orpheus,"bronze statute, by II Mabel White, £lO. A large number of articles in the Arts and Crafts section have also been sold. The total yalue of the sales for the two months, exclusive of sales to the Adelaide Ar. Gallerv, is £2497 14s. Unique concessions -mil be made to the children vi--itin" the Exhibition for the d.iylglit fireworks on Saturday afternoon in (Wonderland." Concession which usually are only avaita » <■ coming m a w,n . mule available for .11 ra1o?o n ni!?t a nl.Hariothela^Mi; Seddon. The Be«es were *• - f _ ing the Tesnlt of hi- act.on. S wd the sptrts'ground tior, in addition to the main roiridnris being pTenared for t llO ,rl , . ' , dahlia show, to be held on . li'' l ' . 7. Exhibits are expected from all leading horticultural centres w . reasonable distant of Ch, isMnml,. Entries close on Monday ne*i.

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