THE ROTORUA SHOW.

(By Telegraph.— Correspondent.) ROTORUA, Wednesday. The Rotorna Agricultural, Pastoral, and Industrial Association's first show was opened to-day. The attendance was about 2000, £70 being taken at the pates. The show was opened at 2 o'clock by 'Sir Joseph Ward, who congratulated Rotorua on its progress, especially as evinced by its first show. The exhibits, be said, woulo show ■that 'Rotorua was more than a tourist district: that it was capaible of becoming an important ajrrtcultural and pastoral centre. He was pleased to say that Rotorua was also progressing favourably from a tourist point of view. The receipts last year exceeded those of the previous year by £1560. This money would be spent for the benefit of the town and district; it would all come back, but the Government should not be blamed for not spending it before they got it. T.he Prime Minister remarked that at Te Aroha he was asked for public expenditure which, pro rata, meant for the whole : Dominion an expenditure of £2,280,000. No ■ Government could spend money at that rate. ■ Mr. Macdonald. M.P. for the Bay of Plenty, congratulated Rotorua on the extent and excellence of its initial show, of ■which he was proud to be the patron. What was wanted to make Rotorna a great farming centre .was the opening up of the land on an encouraging tenure.