THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 23 March 1907, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

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By Telegraph—Special Sendee. Cliristciiureh. .Man h 22. Tlii' lire brigade competitions wire eourluded on the Exhibition SporU C round yesterday, under most auspices circumstances. in the evening a Innwas held in Iho main over which Deputy-.Mayor Pa \ ling presided, and at which tin 1 Acting-Premier, Mr. Ilall-Joiies, was one of the speakers, in file Concert Hail to-night .Mr. Purcell Webb, the Nelson organist, gave I he hr 4 (if his series of organ recitals before a large attendance. The school cadets' encampment is I'nlly occupied at present the battalions in camp comprising tiu Taranaki and Wanganui Companies t< i he mimiier of f»72, with .'SO o'iiceiv. an. 11:> Nelson lad> with seven otlicers. /

large number of schools from diJl'erenl pails of Canterbury and (H-.tgo Ir.ivi visited the iv\hibi( ion d;irill;** the pasi i '\v weeks, being accommodated at tin inhibition •'Home." Children from n< less than lour schools arrived to-day and notice has bee!) received of the in trillion of several oilier schools b make a visit shortly. Two tine exhibit of perennial rye grass, <:;rown in South .land, hive been placed in the Southlau court by an Invercargill linn. Tli weight of one sample is :>::!h lo the ini perial bushel, and of the other 15-111 Weights such as these are very rarel met with. At the production i "Klijah" in the Concert Hall on Tuesda and Wednesday next, Miss Amy Murph will take soprano, Mrs. Lecreit contralti

.1. Carl Ptishel tenor, and John Prouse baritone. The oratorio will be given by the Exhibition orchestra, and a choir of one hundred and forty voices, with Henry Wells, the well-known Christchurch organist, as conductor. Purchasers of tickets for any part of the house will be admitted free to the Exhibition. There was a large attendance at "Wonderland this evening to take part in the search for the buried treasure, and the physical development competitions. The displays of ladies' arms and ankles did not take place, the manager of "Wonderland'' explaining when the curtain rose that the Acting-Premier had prohibited this feature. Clever representations of classical statuary were given instead by a lady specially engaged, and a number of leading physical culturists exhibited the development of their muscles in different poses, prizes being awarded to the best developed.