THE EXHIBITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8388, 27 March 1907, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION.

' By Telegraph—Special Service. CHRISTCHURCH, March 26. There were large numbers of visitors to the Exhibition to-day. The Turakina Maori girls had a good attendance at their display of poi dancing, and the final organ recital of Mr Harold Gregson, of London, drew a crowded audience to the Concert Hall. All the chief items.. of. the programme were given in accordance with special requests. The Orchestra also had a large attendance at their perforanjnce in the afternoon. Fruit displays will form a very prominent feature of the Exhibition .during the Easter period. The collection of pears and apples in the Agricultural Department's court is attracting a great deal of interest, many persons with orchards using it to check the nomenclature of their own fruits by the labelled specimens. Samples of potatoes grown in the experimental plots outside tion are on view m the North Canterbury courts, classified to show the results obtained with different manures. The North Canterbury, South Canterbury, Hawke's Bay 'and Canadian courts all have fine displays of fruit, and yesterday a very large exhibit of oranges was placed in the Cook Islands, court. The Wanganui and Taranaki School Cadet Battalion left for their homes' by the Te Anau : to-day, The Nelson boys have gone by the Mararoa. Two hundred and forty cadets will, arrive to-morrow from Invercargill. Colonel Loveday Spates that. there have been abrut 4,000 boys in camp to date, and notice has been received of about 700 still to come. An interesting event has happened in the Niuean encampment in the birth of a son to Frank Fataaiki, leader of these interesting islanders. The new arrival is really an hereditary prince, as Frank's father was Kim? ,of Niue, and Frank regards himsei " as still the claimant of the thrcue and' the possible successor of the reigning potentate. It is understood, however, that the sovereignty has for a long time been elective. Tiio Niueans will leave for their solitary island home to-morrow. During the last few weeks they have kept pretty close to their whares, being keenly susceptible to the cold, and having been without any employment since the last of their material for makin hats and model boats was used up. While the Niueans have found the weather cold and rigorous, the sub-Antarctic birds in the Victoria Lake hae been unable to withstand the heat to which they are unaccustomd, and the change in the whole nature of their life. All the penguins, except two, have succumbed to these unnatural circumstances. The two survivors of the unhappy family are sickening badly. The molyhawks are all dead some time ago, and of the two Nellie penguins only one remains. Half the penguins died during a single week's hot weather. The seals seem to have become thoroughly accumstomed, and are healthier than at any previous time since their arrival. The preformance of "Elijah," to-night, broke all attendance records for the Concert Hall. The oratorio will be repeated to-morrow. With five important football matches, final fireworks display, Band of Hope demonstration, and other special features, Easter should be one of the most attractive periods the Exhibition has experienced. i '

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