THE WHITE CITY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 771, 21 March 1910, Page 7

THE WHITE CITY.

JAPAN-BRITISH EXHIBITION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 18. Hundreds of Japanese are coming to the White City, Exhibition. The trip, including fares and hotel expenses in London for a period of three weeks, will cost £100 .each. THE ARRANGEMENTS OUTLINED. General Japanese manufactures will fill five, out of the : eight halls that lie between .the Uxbridge Road and Wood Lane entrances. The entrance hall at Wood Lane will contain Japanese models and costumes illustrating the fashions of different periods, and ithe large hall on the left of the Court of Honour, now occupied by aeroplanes and automobiles, will be given over to Japanese industries. The hall now devoted to jewellery : will contain exhibits from Formosa, Korea, Kwantung Province, the South: Manchurian Railway, and ~the Departments of Home Affairs, Justice, and Finance. The Kwantung Government 1 exhibits will be housed in an imitation of the drum tower at Mukden, which is to be built as an example of old Chinese architecture. The second story is to be used as a reception room, and the exhibits, which will be'displayed on the ground floor, will include a model of the Lama tower at Tiehling, made of beans, bean cake, : giant millet; and wheat, with a baso of Fushuri coal. There will be models showing Chinese methods of transport and the manufac-' ture of bean cake and oil, and specimens of the principal products of South Manchuria will be on view.

In _ the building opposite that just mentioned there will be exhibits from the. War Department, the Nary Department, the Department of Communications, and the Japanese. Red Cross Society. The naval exhibits will comprise models of the largo wooden warships, used by the Japanese centuries ago; and these, it is thought, willconvinoe Europeans that the growth of Japan as a great naval Power has not been confined to the last few years, but has' been going on for many generations.' ■.

The gardens, again, will be ail attractive feature. The Japanese Government have secured the area, enclosed by the two bays of the Machinery Hall, and also the old English garden of the extreme southern boundary of the grounds, near the Wood Lane entrance, and will transform them into Japanese gardens by the aid of Japanese gardeners, who are to be brought over to this country for the purpose. There will be a . number of Japanese buildings, with a Japanese street, and Japanese tea-houses with native Japanese attendants. .

The second express to run over the Main Trunk line commencing oil Wednesday next will; leave Wellington at 8.55 p.m. and arrive at Auckland at 4.40 p.m. next day. The down express will leave Auckland at 10.35 a.m. and' arrive in Wellington at 7.21 a.m.

The onslaughts of the Suffragists -on the House, of Commons, whether or no it was relished as a mild form of excitement by the taunted members, was not-appreciated by the stalwart and gentle-naJided constables who had the tliankless duty of keeping them at bay (says a chronicler of Parliamentary incident). A distinguished member telly a good story of a reply he once received "from a strong policeman who had been in muoh of the rough-and-tumble of Hie Suffragist disturbances round about the House of Commons." "Ah, sir," said the policeman, "I hope we shall continue this rule against letting the women in. I don't want to go back to the old system of throwing 'em out of the lobby. I had enough of it." "Were you on duty in the women's disturbances?" "Yes, sir, and I don't want any more." "Did you get hurt?" "No, you see it's like this, .sir," answered the policeman solemnly, "you see, I'm a married man, and I know 'ew to 'andlo 'em."