IMPERIAL EXHIBITION.

THE PRINCIPAL FEATURES. ALL- COUNTRIES REPRESENTED. [from oub OWN coeeesfondent.] " • r V London, April 15. The arrangements for holding the exhibition at Shepherd's Bush, which is this year to take the place of the Franco-Bri-tish Exhibition, are now approaching completion. Mr. Kiralfy is the chief organiser of the enterprise. It will be called the Imperial International Exhibition, and is intended to illustrate, on its more serious side, the industries and decorative arts of, the nations taking part in it. It is a far wider undertaking than that of last year, for it will contain sections representing Russia, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Persia, China, and some of the smaller Oriental countries. New Zealand and Ireland also will each make an important display.' Last year the organisers of the Exhibition laboured under the disadvantage of having to complete the buildings and gardens very rapidly. This year everything is practically in readiness, all that remains to be done being to embellish the buildings of the white city which have suffered externally from the influence of snow, frost, and rain. /What is to be known as the "Imperial Terrace" is being erected between the Court of Arts and the Elite Gardens. This terrace will have upon it a two-storey colonnade, with a monumental central feature and a dossal statue of the King. What was last year the fine-arts section will be devoted to decorative arts. Among the most interesting departments of the exhibition will be the machinery hall. A special feature of the undertaking is to be the section relating to British and Continental watering places. Of these some 80 to 100 will be represented. The charms of rival health resorts will be depicted by means of large panoramas, in some cases as much as 80ft* in length, painted in the manner of the scenic artist, and illuminated in such a' way as to exhibit them in the most attractive light. In another part of this immense building will be sections illustrative of electrical invention, smoke abatement appliances, gas, mining, and metallurgy, refrigerating plant, printing machinery, mechanical tools, contractors' plants and machinery, and sanitation. The two arms of the machinery hall enclose a garden. It is proposed to improve this garden for the present season, and to make it much more attractive. The garden will be called the' " Garden of Progress," and in it will be erected two.new band pavilions, in which foreign orchestras will constantly. play. - The exhibition will comprise historical displays, illustrating aerial navigation, electric lighting, antomobilism, and other departments of invention, from their inception until the present day. Probably the most conspicuous feature of the exhibition, or at least ; the most popular, will be the part of the grounds devoted to pleasure rat her than instruction. Here there will be a great number of 6ide shows of an attractive kind. The Irish village -is to be, remodelled, and there will also be Scotch, Portuguese, and Dahomey villages. The "flip-flap" will be retained, and in addition there will be what are called " the witching waves," a mechanical device for producing the effect of ocean rollers, a North Pole exhibition, a "Messina earthquake," an Indian display, a submarine railway, a " water whirl," a " wiggle-woggle," an' Alpinerailway, and a " captive aeroplane.'' Messrs. Pain will give firework displays from the stadium in the evening. '.i\ The stadium will be devoted to international athletic sports, a Marathon race being on the list. - . „ . ' • ; [A cable published on Saturday stated that the Exhibition had been opened bv the Duke of Argyle, who had greatly tdmired the New Zealand display.]