THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 27 March 1907, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION DAY BY DAY

(By Telegraph.—Special Service). Christchurch, March 2(f. There were large numbers of visitors to tlie Inhibition to-day. The Turukina Maori g.rls had a good attcndancu at their display of pol dancing, and the final organ recital by Harold Grogson, of London, dreAV a crowded audience to the concert hull. All the items of the programme were given in accordance with special requests. The orchestra also had a large attendance at their performance in the afternoon. Fruit displays will form a very prominent feature of 'the Exhibition during the haster period, The collection of pears and apples in the Agricultural Department's court is attracting a great deal of interest and many persons, with o> eliards, are using it to check the nomenelaturc of their own fruit by the labelled specimens. Samples of potatoes grown in experimental plots outside >tho Kxhibiton are on view in the North Canterbury Court, classified to show, the results obtained with different Manures. The North Canterubrv, South Canterbury, Hawke's Bay and' Canadian courts all have line displays of fruit, and yesterday a very large exhibit of oranges was placed in the Cook Islands Court. The Wanganui and Taranaki school cadet battalions left for; their homes by tlie To Anau to-day, ihe Nelson boys, who were to have gone by the Mararoa, have been allow;ed to postpone their departure 'till tomorrow. Two hundred and forty cadets arrive to-morrow from Invercarigll Colonel Loveday states there have been about 4000- boys in camp to date, and notice has been received of about 700 "till to conic. An interesting event hag ijippeiied ill tile Nuieau oncampment, in lie birth of a .son to Frank Tataaikl, leadei of the.-e interesting islanders. Hie now arrival is really an hereditary, prince, as Frank's father was King of Nn.e, and_ J rank regards himself as il'in ° f thc thronc -'»'"! th« posMble successor of the reigning potit. ,e It is lin.lerstood, howev>r, at the sovereignity has for a , ' i me elective. T , le Nllie# f their solitary islnn.l homo to-mor-"m;m« ' hl ' ll,st frw Weks they he : no- l'' l'""''" V <ln ' S " (0 " I<!l ' r w ' iare . r k( * n| . v s "-ce),tibl„ to cold, and having been without any 'employment Mine the last of their material for V eall , 0 A n ioans llavc the Ar.? .ft , v'Swous, the subAnt.nctie birds m Victoria lake have tomed'l!' /' tO / v i tllsta, ' (l '«>'» mainier of ltfe) vxooirt 4„. 1 a au the Penß»ms uuu turi , '"wmhwl to these' srv n / -'""Stanee, The two si<<k >n' S l li unh "l'l'.V familv are Zl'"" "! • v - Th « moly-iinwks all dad some time a-o, and of' the two . h ' only one rcmaiiif. 'inlf of the diod during a sm»le Avivok of hot weather. Tlio sonls sl 7 Mn |° lK'coino' thoroughly acclimatised and niv lioaltlnVr than at any jnwious tiuie *ineo arrival.

IVr Press Assuciatinii,

f'lirihlclimvli. M.uvh 2(i x , A >on>itrmncnf of K rn|ies from New Zeahiid vineyards will arrive at llie K\])iliiii<n 10-hhutow.