THE EXHIBITION.

Evening Star, Issue 12883, 4 August 1906, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION.

THE WEEK'S PROGRESS.

[Special to the Stir.]

tj- -r- £ HR ISTOHURCH. Anenst 4v His <ho Governor Lord Finn, lret (who occupies the position of patron of the Exhibition) and staff paid an onWl visit of ;nspc?t:on roth/, buildings and Bounds on the 24th nit. The inspection extended to the fernery, art pallerv, machi-. i try and concert x-all, nnd Maori pah. Hi« Excellency expressed himself jiknsed with the progress -nade and rhe advanced state of the Exhibition buildings. Advice wze reai'ved during the week from the -High Commissioner of the despatch of 567 pictures for the Exhibition art gallerv The pictures are stated to be excellently representative of British art. The British Board of Trade's extensive statistical charts prepared for the Exhibition are at present being exhibited at the London office of the Boards Labor Department. Mr L. E. Brown, •Commissioner for Fiji, advises his arrival at Christchurch on the 18th Octobar to take up his duties as commissioner and representative. Mr Waymouth, managing director of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, is organising a series of monthly competitions and exhibitions of Canterbury lamb. The lambs will be shown and judged alive, and afterwards frozen and exhibited in a transparent insulated chamber in the machinery halL 'j!he denominations of Exhibition commemorative stamps have been arranged, and. the ksue will now consist of four denominations—viz., id, Id, 3d, and 6dTfce High Commissioner advises of' the shipment of Pain's fireworks oy. toe steamer Kangatira, Ingram and Co., of Hereford, England, manufacturers of the electric organ, advise that the organ shipped per Mamari is accompanied by their representative, Mr Brett, who will be assisted in its erection by Mr Bortlock, at present in Melbourne. Following are the- reduced fares between Australia and Lyttelton arranged with the TJnion Steam Ship Company and Huddart, Parker, and Co.:—Saloon (return), Mel bourne to- Lyttelton, £ll ss; steerage, £6 10s; Sydney to.Lyttelton—saloon £lO, "steerage £5 10s';. .round, .ticket from Melbourne to Sydney via Cook Strait and vice- versa~saloon, £11; steerage* £1 These reductions amount to 20 pw oenV