The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1888. The Wairarapa Exhibition.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2929, 20 June 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1888. The Wairarapa Exhibition.

" A grand Wairarapa Exhibition " is to be opened to-morrow, so rims the advertisement, in the Drill Hall, by Sir George Grey 1v.C.8. and George Bcetliam Esq, in aid pf the funds of the Wesleyan Church." There is apparently a slightincongruity between a grand Wairarapa Exhibition and the funds of a Wesleyan Church, but in the present instance the relationship is accepted by all hands, and everybody hopes that a certain enterprise originated by our Wesleyan friends will prove remunerative from the financial standpoint. The reason of this is that our Wesleyan friends having conceived the idea of a Wairarapa exhibition set to work to make it as broad and representative a movement as possible. They invited the aid of friends of all denominations, and their committee of management is thoroughly unsectarian, Every resident in the Wairarapa possessing curios or objects of interest has been requisitioned to to contribute to the success of the affair, and tlio responses to the requisitions have been so numerous jud so willing that a grand exhibition, which deserves to be termed *' Wairarapa" in character—has been evolved. We have every reason to believe that the collection of exhibits to-morrow in the Drill shed, will be one that will be regarded as a credit to the district, and that while we shall be proud of the veteran cx-governor who opens the exhibition, we shall also regard with satisfaction the show itself. The original idea of an exhibition of this kind was a happy thought, and the pluck and determination with which it has been carried out enhances the value of the project. It is the first big show of this description yet attempted in the Wairarapa, but it will scarcely be the last. The present enterprise is, we trust, the parent of many succeeding exhibitions, which will from time to time record the development of our local arts and industries, The Wairarapa Exhibition of 188S will be an event to be remembered in the town for many years to come, as . a starting point from which some degree of prosperity and advancement may be registered, It is impossible for the men, women, and children who will throng our exhibition to-morrow to see its treasures without carrying away with them some new conception of beauty or utility, some new thought which will aid or brighten their future existence. In the daily struggle for existence many are apt forget that man does not live by bread alone, and that there are in most people finer and nobler faculties which may be nourished and strengthened by the contemplation of the thoughts of earnest minds and busy brains, as expressed in the external form of works of art, Even in an unpretentious up-country exhibition like the one which opens to-morrow, the thoughts of various nations and many generations will be embodied in examples of art and industry, and every earnest student will profit by the contemplation of them.