THE EXHIBITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8368, 27 February 1907, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION.

By Telegraph—Special Service.

CHRISTCHURGH, Last Night. 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 two hundred visitors. The Hawke's Bay Maoris, over 120 strong, gave a splendid display of dancing in the pah, quite upholding the reputation gained by their fellow tribesmen who preceded' them. The Maori stockade erected, in the Sports Ground for the recent military tattoo is being shifted to the pah 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. Leader, catalogue price £500; "The Portsmouth Road," by C. J. Holmes, £75; "Cottages by the Exe," by Alfred Parsons, £355; "Through the Wood (near Barbizon)," by Sir Ernest A. Waterlow, £275. Water Colours—"Kentish Cornfields," byr Mrs Allingham, £3O; "The Lost Ferret," by Tom Brown £10*; "Divided Attentions," by Lucien Davis, £SO; "The Leaf," by Elga S. Forbes, £3l; "Spring in the Highlands," by Geo. Houston, £ls; "English Roses," by-E. Horwits, £3l 10s; "Off Duty," by Sir James D.Linton, £3O; "The North Meadow, Crickdale," by A. Parsons, £4O; "From the Depths of the Sea," by J. R. Reid. £42; "Winter Sun Effect , Over Westminster," by A. Severn,. £lO 10s; "Bride Bay," by Frank Walton, £3l 10s; "A Dorset Cottage," by Mrs Allingham, £9O; "Amiens Cathedral from the Choir," by Sir Wyke Bayliss (deceased), £115; "A Roman Garden," by A. C. Gow, R.A., £80; "Le Cap de Cateret," by Yand King, £36 15s; "View Near Windermere," by A. T. Nowell, £3l; "A Surrey Chalk Pit," , by Sir E. J. Poynten, Bart., £130;: "Small Fish Are Better Than No Fish," by Frank Dodd, £125. Etchings have been sold to the value of £75 Bs. Sculpture—"Mother and Child," bronze, by P. Montford, £l2; "Merry Babe," marble bust, by H. Bertram Peagram, £65; "The Mower," bronze statuette, by H.. Thorneycroft, £SO; "Orpheus," bronze statuette, by H. Mabel Whyte; £lO 10s. A large number of articles in the arts and crafts section have also been sold. The total value of sales for two months, exelusive of the salens to the Adelaide Art Gallery, is £2,497 14s. Unique concessions will be made 1 to children visiting' the Exhibition for the daylight fireworks display on Saturday afternoon. ' Wonderland! concession tickets, which usually are only available for school children coming in a body, will be made available for all children, and similar concessions will be offered jby the proprietors of other leading side-shows. The Besses o' th' Barn Band, who will commence a second, season on Thursday, will give a sacred concert on the Sports Ground on Sunday in aid of the fund for the colonial memorial to the late Mr R. J. Seddon. The Besses o' th' Barn are anxious to do something to assist this project, Mr Seddon having been a native of the County of Lancashire and the visit of the Band to the Exhibition being the result of his action. The Exhibition and side- | shows will all be closed, and the I Sports Ground simply placed at the disposal of the Band and its audience. Extra space accommodation, in addition to the main corridor, is being prepared for the Fruit and Dahlia Show to be held on March 6th and 7th. Exhibits are expected from all the leading horticultural C3ntres within reasonable distance of Christchurch. Entries will close on Monday next., Other prominent attractions of the next few weeks will be the motor car gymkhana on March 9th, and the sheep-yarding competitions of the Christchurch Dog Trials Club on the Sports Ground on March 23rd.