LOCAL INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 128, 3 June 1881, Page 2

LOCAL INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

.+ _ The many attractions at the Exhibition last night brought to the Athenaeum Buildings a capital attendance of the public. The promenade concert was a very successful affair, the instrumental music being extremely good. By means of the telephone, the music was distinctly heard in WaDganui. Up to hist night upwards of £300 had been taken, a circumstance upon which the committee may we'l congratulate themselves. Not least among the attractions was the exhibition of fancy work sent in by over 100 ladies, the total number of exhibits being 251, including wool, lace, crewel work, embroidery, knitted work, &c. The display was a most attractive one, and the ladies who acted as judges had a most difficult task in awarding the prizes Indeed, so uniformly good was a large number of the exhibits that the judges, who had only three prizes to award, were unable to reduce tho number below seven, which they declared to be in all respects equal in merit. The awards were made as follows:— For crewel work — No. 176 (screen). Miss Best, Ist. Special mention : No. 135 (leather bracket worked in crewel) Mrs. As till ; No. 102, Mr.-. W. J. Nathm; and No. 122, Miss Buchauau. Berlin Wool Work— No. 171 (picture, ' Signing M&gna Cbarta"), Jlrs. Bolton, Ist. Lace Work— No. 126 (point lace bracket), Mrs. Newtuan : Xso. 117 (lace, exhibited by Mm. Buck, "TeAro"), both equal in merit. Special mention : No. 142 (lace collar), Mrs. W. J. Soott. Silk

Embroidery — No. 133, Miss Huskisson, Ist. Crochet Work— No. 150, Miss E. Woodward. Knitted Work— No. 13S (gloves), Mrs. Wilmot. Special mention : No. 165 (knitted ties), Mrs. Tait ; No. 105 (knitted lace), Miss Biby. In addition to the above, the judges considered as worthy of special notice — Ne. 147, bracket and blotting-book by Mrs. Crichton, and No. 139, bead Work by Miss Kennedy, articles outside the classes for competition. The whole of the exhibits are well worth inspecting, as they display a vast amount of skill in almost every branch of ladies fancy work. To-night there will be an exhibition of dissolving views, and we understand that Dr. Lemon has promised to send in eight or ten telephones, bo that the public may have a bettor opportunity of communicating with Wanganm than the one instrument has hitherto afforded.