THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 939, 18 April 1882, Page 2

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

(From the Press.) The following is a continuation of the report of the Exhibition : The next bay is vacant, and beyond this M. Federeli has a display of sericiculture, including silkworms in all stages, cocoons spun on manuka twigs, slabs of -* mulberry woods grown in Akaroa, and raw silk in all stages. In the east bay Mr Kissel has a case of Warwickshire sauce ; Carew and Co, pickles, sauce, etc, and exhibits from the Canterbury Marble

Company. Mr Charles Chaplin here exhibits a number of bee hives, bee appliances, etc. These comprise the following : —One hive fitted with self adjust* ing bars in brood chamber, and a super of twenty-four 11b sections with orate and dividers complete. Two eight-bar hives adapted for use on the doubling principle, which allows of the honey being slung out of the top combs as fast as stored by the bees, while the lower combs containing the bropd remain undisturbed. One improved hive, with bars aerpss tfye hive, those to contain the brood being towards the front, while the rear is fitte d with wider frames, and contains sections for the storage of honey in virgin comb ; a division board fitted with strips of per-

forated zinc prevents the queen passing to the rear to deposit eggs, while the workers (with smaller thorax) have free access to deposit honey. The roof is of sufficient depth to allow the whole of the top to be worked with sections. Above is shown a number of sections well filled with beautiful comb taken from a similar bive to the first-mentioned, some of them being made into neat packages by having squares of glass fixed on each side of them —as packed for export. An apparatus for slinging honey from the comb is also shown ; this is a can, fixed to a wooden shaft, having a pin at the bottom, and a loose handle on a pin at the top. The combs, being first unsealed, are placed against tbe grating in the can, the can is made to revolve rapidly by fixing the spike into tbe floor, and grasping the loose handle at the top, and giving it a slight circular motion. Another appliance is a double tin for easily melting comb, and separating the wax from tbe refuse. The comb is broken into the inner tin, and a little water is placed in the outer one, the whole is then placed in an oven and the wax melts through and floats on the water, while the refuse is left in the inner tin. Some cakes of wax are shown as melted from the comb by this process. Other arrangements of 0. Chaplin’s are a folding rack for use in transferring and uncapping combs, and a mat or quilt made of boiler felt for covering the top of the bars, and affording ventilation without draught. In a glass case some smaller implements used in the ; apiary are shown, namely, a pair of bent - honey knives, a double-case wax-melter, for use in fixing guides or comb foundations in bars or sections. A small bellows, from which a little smoke blown into the hive, alarms and quiets the bees, and a queen cage for use when deposing an impotent queen, and inserta more vigorous one in her place. Different kinds of comb foundation are shown, some having the conical base for the cells some with flat bottoms, and a third being impressed on thin sheets of wood. C. Chaplin also shows some beautiful diagrams, illustrating the anatomy and physiology of the honey bee, and its lelation to flowering plants. Returning from the fernery on the opposite side to to that which we have been describing, we come next to the bay occupied by Mr Lavello in the French Court, where there is a great display of jewellery. Next beyond is the Maori Court. Amongst the special Courts allotted to the New Zealand exhibits, two of the most interesting are the Maori Court and the Ladies Court. The first of these is divided into two sections, one being devoted to the work of the Native ladies, and the other to that of the sterner sex. The various articles exhibited are all made from the Native products, and the way in which they are finished displays considerable ingenuity and taste. Mrs Mutu sends a flax mat and Mrs Pohippi a miniature cloak, made of Indian corn leaves, fishing net of flax twine, a fancy basket, and dressed flax ; wnilo another lady rejoicing in the name of Mahinka has an assortment of baskets. Mrs Simeon exhibits a number of articles made by her, including a smoking cap, tea cosy, flax shoes, and dinner mats. Mrs Tuno has a sling for carrying wood, a labor which } like the Indians, the lordly Maori in his primitive state imposes on his better half, and some flax articles, including a watch pocket and baskets. Mrs Wi son has a piece of polished greenstone, a shark’s tooth earring, and a whitebait net, whilst Mesdames Hopa Nihini and Fini send flax baskets, greenstone brooch and a small greenstone mere. The exhibits sent in by the Native gentlemen which form the second section in this court are as follows :—Flax dish, eel pot, net, flax drinking vessel, bed mats, flax cloaks, eel spear, fern root crusher, potato sower, tinder wood for striking fire, flax boats, cover or top for car, flax fly catcher, large slab of greenstone, colored nax mat, spear, spear of whalebone, whitebait net, canoe paddle, colored flax cloak, flax cloak (colored), slab of greenstone (rough), polished greenstones, parcel scent leaves, ball made of rapu, stone axe, floor mat, greenstone head, cloak, mat made from pigeon feathers, and bone club, After this, Messrs Scott Bros, have a bay in which is exhibited a gigantic kitchener and a number of garden seats, ett. In the next bay one sees horseshoe nails from Mr Hill, washing machines from Mr Hern, iron foundry articles, bells, and gongs from Mr Price, Sydenham, and garden seats from Mr Buchanan. In the adjoining bay, Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Co have a very fine display of perfumes and patent medicines of all kinds, which makes quite a show in the handsome case. Beyond this again, Messrs Barrington and Co, of Dunedin, send a kitchen range and two register grates. Crowe and Co, with an exhibit pf ale, etc, follow; in the same bay, Vincent and Oo show a neatly arranged trophy of casks, each having on the head a picture of the brewery, Mr Schwartz sends New Zealand wines, and the front is occupied by a trophy of jams sent by Mr W, Thomson, of Colombo street. A pice display of Mein’s preserved meats, samples of Allen and Sons’ tomato sauce, apd hlaqleaa’s pickles close the exhibits vi this bay. In the next, Trent Bros have specimens of ther,- coffees, samples of clucoi’y in various stages, spices, etc. A stage of Mr C. B. Gandy’s celebrated cheese, and specimens of Hauser’s dai j

preparations close tbe bay. In the next Messrs Eckerley and Macfarlane have a triangular trophy of beer in bottle and cask, and Messrs Milsotn and Co exhibit their aerated water and cordials. Mr J. Piper follows with a fine display of tinware, and then comes the Banks’ Peninsula Dairy Association with cheese, etc. Beyond, again, is the New Zealand Produce and Provision Company, who send soups, compressed meats, etc, and then comes Mr Christian with a toothsome display of lollies of all kinds, biscuits etc. The remainder of the bays to the corner opposite the octagon is occupied by the display of work by the children under the Board of Education, who make a splendid display, and the space appropriated to the Ladies’ Court will, of coarse, be of the deepest possible interest to the fair visitants of the Exhibition, and no part of the building will bo so attractive to them as’tbis. The committee to whom the work of procuring and arranging these exhibits was entrusted deserve very great credit for the way in which their arduous duties have been performed. Altogether in all the subdivisions of the court 266 exhibitors have sent in specimens of their work. These subdivisions are as follows : Crewel and rug work, lace and raarcrame work, flowers in wax, worsted, paper and feathers ; water color paintings and pencil drawings painting on satin or silk, painting on terracotta, and a miscellaneous gathering of all kinds of work not including under any of these headings. In the first sub-division, viz, crewel and rug work, tapestry, and embroidery are the following articles : —Mantle drape and cabinet, black satin apron, crewel work bracket drape, crewel work, worked chair, Berlin wool, crewel work cushion on satin, crewel work antimacassar, crewel work cosey on satin, mantle drape, ottoman and banner screen, ottoman cover Algerian work, satin sofa cushion, crewel work, specimens of old tapestry, banner screen, chenille embroidery, mantle drape on black satin, cushion cover, chair embroidered on satin, tab'e cover embroidered on cloth, crewel work antimacassar, mantle drape, crewel work, black satin drape, embroidered chair (crimson), Turkish pattern, table screen, bracket drape, crewel, picture in crewel work, basket of flowers, Lady Jane Grey refusing the crown, Berlin wool work, mantle drape and curtains, crewel afternoon tea cloth (Pirates of Penzance), d’oylys, crewel work (Grandsire’s Dream), embroidered chair, banners, crewel work, cushion, embroidered cushion, cushion, crewel work, wool work picture, crewel work, crewel work, occasional, wool work pictures, banner screens, chair in satin, table top embroidered in satin, black cloth embroidered table cloth in Brittany figures, peasants’ costumes, silk dress, embroidered 1762—120 years ago, round table worked with ferns, wool picture ship in fall sail, worked basket, embroidery work, sofa blanket, wool work, sofa cushion, crewel work, silk in cloth, German wall bracket, Berlin wool and silk, sofa cushion in silk and wool, piece of needle work, chair crewel work on satin, table cover, crewel work on satin, otto, mans, crewel work on satin, embroidery on velvet, blotting book, lawn tennis apron, crewel work. (To be continued.)