THE COLINDERIES. The Closing Banquet. (BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT). [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, November 11.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2239, 13 November 1886, Page 2

THE COLINDERIES. The Closing Banquet. (BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT ). [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, November 11.

Thk Exhibition was closed to-day amid srriMt enthusiasm, thousand-* singing the Xational Anthenri. The Exhibition grounds were specially illuminated during the evening. ])miiigth<> tiniH tl»t» Exhibition ha-* been open it has been visited by five and a half millions of people. It is consideicd fjert.iin th.it it will be le-opened in June on ,\ gander scale. The dinner given by Mr K. Stanhope, Secretary for the Colonies to the Executive Commissioner-, of the Indi.m <iud Coloni.il Pi\hibition, w.ii a nio-st brilliant atfair. Amonffst tho^e present were the Unke of Cambridge, Sir Samuel Davenport, Sir Julius Yon HiwiNt, Mr Ijosiito, and Mr ■J .unes Thompson. Tlie Duke of Cainhridge said that tin* K\hibiti<>n had greatly he-pod to weld the Empire together. Mr St.mhop >, in pDposintf the toa&t of the quests Ituded tlie Evecutive Commissioners, and siid the Exhibition hid been tlio iti'Miis of giving tlie colonies a twenty veais'stait, <iud had been productive of a vast amount of good. Sir Aithur Blyth lesponded on beh \1 f of the colonies.