THE EXHIBITION.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7451, 26 October 1889, Page 6

THE EXHIBITION.

[By Telegraph.]

.-■BOM OUB COBRBSVO-TOINT.] Y'j~ : DUNEDIN, October 25. -■<At Hon. T. Fergus and General Ed-jra-ds were conducted through the Exhibition building this afternoon. Mr Holland, the Auckland representative, has.received word that the Committee are to hold a special meeting to consider his ftppaal for funds. An old Auckland resident, now belonging to Sydney, but over here in connection with the New South Wales Court, has offered to make a Soitatton of -25 of money rather than that the Auckland court should be a failure.

Next week will see the guns mounted in the Armoury Court. The weapons shown ___the department will be a 61b rifled mux-led loader, a 6in. breech loader on a htdropneumatic carriage, three quick -bring guns, a 61b Nordenfeldt on a garri■gfe carriage, and a 61b Hotchkiss, two B-Stihine. guns, a Maxim and a two-barrel Kordenfelat, a field gun, a 61b Armstrong, aLtpinfantry rifles of all designs, from the _U&&Qck of about 1692 to the MartiniBenry of the present day.

' - (HUBS ASSOCIATION T-XJEGEA-t&l OAMARU, October 25. J.Vtfce number of exhibitors at the Exhi-bit-on for this district will be sixty__ma. AUCKLAND, October 25. A" meeting was held in the rooms of the of Commerce to-day to consider tte question of supplying funds to Mr upland for the purpose of fitting up the AujeUand court at the forthcoming Exhifcrtioa in Dunedin. Captain Colbeck presided. It was decided to forward Mr HoUand an estimate of funds at present available in the hands of the Committee. An offer has been made to collect a further Cum. ________________________