THE EXHIBITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8384, 19 March 1907, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION.

By Telegraph—Special Service. CHRISTCHURCH, March 18. The Exhibition was again well attended to-day. Mr Wilfred Mannir.g was the vocalist at the concert in the evening, which was well attended, and there wasga large attendance ako at the Orchestral Concert in the afternoon. The judging of the home industries exhibits will be completed this week. The classes still remaining are drawing, geometry, Native schools work, modelling, and decorative design. Pictures are in the course of being judged now. The judges' reports in the open classes for Technical School pupils have been handed in to the committee and' the awards should be available early in the weak. The sheep-yarding com- ■ petition in connection with the Christchurch Dog Trials will be held on the Sports Ground on Monday next. Among forty-one entries are five dogs -brought over by Mr A. E. McLeod, of Wilga Downs, New South Wales, and the meeting of these with the New Zealand cracks will lend more than ordinary interest to the trials. Mr McLeod's dogs have also scored heavily at, the Sydney competitions. At the Exhibition the contests will consist in driving sheep through two separate pair of hurdles, one representing a gateway and the other a race, and yarding them. Mr Jaques, the Government Canning Expert, will give demonstrations of fruit preserving on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, after' which there will be a cessation till Easter. Demonstrations will then be renewed, and given at short intervals till the close of the Exhibition. Very great interest is taken in these practical displays, which often'attract a crowd of couple of hundred people, many of them armed with note books. Eightynine fire brigades, including one from Corowa, New South Wales, wilV take part in the competitions on the Sports Ground, this week. A commencement will be made to-morrow afternoon, three events taking place at once. The judges and officials held a meeting to-night, at which final arrangements were made. Four, engines will take part in the illuminated water display to be held at the side of Victoria Lake tomorrow night. A fair sized building has been erected on the Sports Ground for the "fighting the flames" act of Wednesday night, in which two steam chemical engines and a motor chemical engine will take part. The building will be set on fire between two sets of fireworks, and the engines will set in and quell the flames, as in the case of any ordinary conflagration. On Thursday eveningthere will be a second water display, and on Friday night a banquet will be held in the main corridor and the Acting-Premier will present the prizes to the winners of the competitions. A trial of the chemical engines will take place on Saturday morning, and the drawing of the art union in the evening. A large number of entries have already been received for the physical development competitions to be held in Wonderland in conjunction with the search for the buried treasure on Friday, March 22nd.