THE EXHIBITION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 39, 15 February 1907, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION.

CHRISTCHURCH, 14th February. Mr. W. H. Monk, of Sydney, played organ accompaniments to violin solos of his brother at a well-attended orchestral concert in the afternoon, and several organ solos at a, concert in the evening, which appealed strongly to the large audience. Mr. West, who has been exhibiting at half-hour intervals daily since the Exhibition opened, moving . pictures in the small hall known as the Castle Theatre, gave his eleven hundred and seventh, consecutive display this evening. Mr. West has now put through one and a half million feet of film, or over two bundled and eighty-five miles, and some twenty-four million photographs have, he states, been projected on the screen. He claims that this is a world's record likely to stand for some time. The Hawkes Bay Maoris gave a performance at the pa this afternoon before a large attendance. Aheady their entertainments have achieved a popularity second to none that has been given in the pa before them. Miss Jennings, who had the distinction of being the millionth visitor to the Exhibition, was presented with the promised gold watch by Mr. Fowlds, Minister in charge, this afternoon, the presentation being accompanied by a congratulatory speeoh. ceremony was not a public one. The Westland School Cadets, numbering 244 boys, with nineteen officers, arrived at the Exhibition to-day, and went into camp lor the usual week's training. The battalion numbers 270 units, and includes representatives from Greymouth, Reefton, Hokitika, Cobden, Taylorville, Kumara, Runanga, and Blackball schools. Demonstrations of bee handling and hive manipulation given by Mr. Hopk,ins, Government apiarist, and his assistants, at tho Government bee exhibit, are a popular feature at the Exhibition. The keenest interest is taksn in the observation hive, and also in the movements and working of the bees in the bell glasses and on straw skeps. Bandsmen who have been witnessee of the popularity of such competitions in other centres declare that the quickstep contest on Saturday should attract an attendance to the Exhibition of fully 20,000. This event is expected to be far and away tho most attractive to tho public of the entire programme of contests, tl will be easily the largest, and probably the finest, exhibition of its kind yet seen in the colony. Preparations) arc now complete for tho militaiy tattoo to-morrow night, inwhicb^ all competing bands will take part. , Given favourable weather, of winch there is at present every indication, a unique spectacle should be afforded. The secretary of the Now Zealand Amateur Athletic Association reports having received " the largest entry on record for the association's championfehip meeting, to^ ba he'd on tho Exhibition sports ground on Thursday and Saturday nest. Entries for the championship events number no less than 136, and various handicaps have drawn the enormous entry of 317. These entries are from the best-known athletes in Auckland,. New Plymouth, Wanganue, Wellington, Nelson, Aahburton, Timaru, Dunedin, - Gore, Invcrcar,jill, and other places, in addition to local runners.