THE EXHIBITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8378, 12 March 1907, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION.

By Telegraph—Special Service. CHRISTCHURCH, March 11. There was a fair attendance at the Exhibition to-day. Mr Munro, the General Manager, states that there has been a marked increase lately in the receipts of the various side shows, and holders of selling rights. Permission has been granted to Mr Scott, Commissioner for South Australia, to display a shipment of South Australian grapes around the fountain in the main dome of the Exhibition, in the same position as that occupied by the New Zealandgrown grapes last week. This shipment of grapes arrived at the Bluff to-day per the steamer Monowai, and should be on view at the Exhibition on Wednesday next., Tenders are being invited for the purchase in one lot for removal of the machinery hal 1 and main building of the Exhibition, with the exception of the concert hall, fernery and lavatories. Delivery will be given not later than May 15th, and four clear months thereafter r will be allowed for removal. Tenders are to be addressed to the Minister-in-Charge of the Exhibition. Mr H. Gregson, of Napier, is to give a series of organ recitals in the concert hall on Thursday, Friday and Saturday next. Mrs Buckeridge, of Gisborne, (nee Miss Maude Hewson), formerly of the Pollard Opera Company, has been engaged to contribute to the programmes of the forthcoming popular concerts, and it is possible that the services of Mrs Ernest Davis (nee Miss Marion Mitchell) will be engaged. Saturday, March 23rd being the anniversary day in Otago, the Union Company have decided to run a special excursion by a steamer leaving Dunedin on the evening of Friday, 22nd inst., returning from Christchurch by the 7.45 train from Christchurch to Lyttelton, on Saturday, 23rd in&t. This "excursion will enable visitors to spend Anniversary Day at the Exhibition without involving them in any loss of time.

Demonstrations of force feeding with ten White Plymouth Rocks and White Wyandottes, which have just come to hand, will be a novel feature in the Agricultural.Department court, having much interest for poultry farmers. The birds will be weighed before the fattening process begins and again after a fortnight or three weeks' progress. The members of fire brigades in different parts of the colony are already arriving in town to take part in the competitions which commence next Tuesday on the Sports Ground. The teams are all practising hard on vacant.spots in the city, and suburbs. About ninety brigades will be represented in all, making a total of about 800 firemen, who will be engaged in competitions. The water display on the river bank will be given next Tuesday evening, and eighty to ninety boats, filled with firemen discharging fireworks, and preceded by a band, will take part in the river procession on Wednesday night. Thursday night there will be a great display on Victoria Lake, which, with the aid of lines of hose laid to its centre, will be converted into a veritable Waimangu Geyser lighted with coloured fires and Roman candles. The banquet and presentation of prizes are fixed for Friday night, and Saturday will see the drawing of the art union for which thirty thousand tickets have been sold.

CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.