THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 2 March 1907, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

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By Telegraph—Special Service. (Jliristchurcb, .March •>. There wns mi attendance of 10,-Vln m the Exhibition to-day. . A shower uf rain drove the Hesse's Jtan.l 'from the sports ground into tin- conceit Imi! in the evening. Uuth their poifoiiuunee.s were well attended. Two new pla-ler j busts have been added to the collect/on in the art gallery, one of Mi.-s Kileen M Ward, daughter of the Premier, and c< the other an ideal bust of a young ft hull-caste maiden. Sigiior lirag.iltu, c< government Viticultnristj has arrang- h . led for a display of New Zealand grown u grapes at tlie Exhib.tion. The first 0 i lon will be shipped from Auckland by n i tne 'J'uluue on Saturday, reaching i, I I Christehurl>h Jon Wednesday ne.vt. , The grapu» are grown at the (jiovcru- ■ ment experimental stallion tit \U:e euga, in the Waikato. The first con- I! s signmcnl will consist of the Chasselas * t variety, which are considered to be the ,J t finest eating grapes. Shipments of fl )• other varieties will follow as thev r,p- t d en. As two tons of Australian grapes s d will arrive next week, the public will a have an opportunity of comparing New I i'. Zealand and Australian iruitn. In J .» gard to a cablegram received to-night ; i- Horn Adelaide, stating that the judging 1 ■n at the Exhibition is not satisfactory i v- it is understood that trouble arose :o some days ago among Australian ex- ' I'! hibitors of wine, more particularly in ; ill reference to the judge appointed by ' m the Government. The appointment ' )k was subsequently caneellevl, and yesteric day exhibitor* were invited them■i- selves to nominate a substitute. Their ed unanimous choico fell upon M. Maloin. quin, of Canterbury College, and the .e. Minister has accordingly notified his il- appointment to the position. No :d further hitch is expected to occur, and as the judging of Australian wines will ic. commence to-morrow, The judges ol id several other sections "nave completed ve their work, and only the) Ministers' of ccfnlinnation 'qf their) decisions is ics needed before they will bo made public. .'ts The Acting Premier, speaking at a sc. dinner given to visiting members of the he Press Assoeation to-day, congratulathc ed those who had had to do with what as had been a successful' Exhibition. Hi There were some people who had the lie- idea that the colony was going to lose e.l a very large sum, but they must take ct. into account the educational value of nit the Exhibition. When he would tell -he them that the cost to the colony as u it whole would not, he believed, exceed at- the sum of one shilling per head of iiig population, he thought that they would nit agree with him that the whole arrange--he ments had been carried out commer:st- cially and successfully in order to rn- produce such a result. The following ur- interesting return compiled by the iat Customs Department of the total valov- ues of exhibits under bond according mi, to the countries of their aetual origin, :ol- sheds much lighton the international in- aspect of the Exhibition, which has by been questioned by some critics:—, ore United Kingdom £178,107 Australia fas £20,832, including Victoria £OOOI, Let. Xew South Wales £10,408, Queeasans land £2128, South Australia £l3Bl, in Western Australia £BIO, Tasmania In £4; Fiji £444; Transvaal £2ti; fairly dia £203; Ceylon £204; Burma £0; wd Canada £3706; United States £7100; nw, France £2924; Spain £10; Italy J a £073; Switzerland £100; Austria the £707; Germany £3853; Sweden £4; iin- Norway £ls; Holland £1748; Belmd gium £071; Syria £182; Trinidad £2; If Cuba £B2; Philippines £154; China vas £l4; total value of exhibits under oh- bond £222,044. The next dißplay ins of London fireworks will be given on ne, Wednesday.

DISSATISFACTION WITH JUDGING Adelaide, March 1. News has been received that the judging at the Chvistehurch Exhibition has not been satisfactory. The State representative is therefore consulting the Vvml-Gvowcvs'' Association pjs to whether it is not advisable to withdraw South Australian wines from competition.