THE EXHIBITION.

Evening Star, Issue 13001, 21 December 1906, Page 6

THE EXHIBITION.

TO BE OPENED ON CHRISTMAS DAY. CHRISTCHURCH, December 2L It has been decided to open the Kxfafintion to tho pnbUc on Christmas Day at two o'clock. Exhibitors and concesnonaaiM may work nor not, as they choose. Ibe orchestra give two free concert* on Cbn*mas Day—viz.. at 4 pan..and at 8 and will provide music saiiabto to the Mason.

[Special to the Stb-]

CHKISTGHUBOH, December 22L After the fire-walking yesterday a Kpan youih who only arrived in C*risbterh Crto who had been to tho Waasanm CouS«* ScW during the past five yoMS, aadbT™.. boot* all that time, »tot Ms feet are as tender a* a European's, walked out to the centre of tie *"=f?«™**" footed with impunity on the bamms *•>«»- Professor Bickerton. -who »a**«*™ *TT walkers' performance closely, totaes ftat he made m or two simple.testa. wb*t. m his opinion, amply demonstrated the jsot Hat the stones are not by any means very hot. Ho says:—" I placed several matches on various stones in different parts of ti» heap- Some near the centre irmamftrt pcaeefully there, and did not ignite aiaJl exoep«inir wi.cn they came in contact with embers which were in chinks between the dunes. I also placed my fingers (which art> particularly sensnivo to heat) on one of the ***** about sft from the edge of Oib pit, an* tent them there for six seconds, as toned by Dr Enas's stop-watch, and I wa not m Oio least burnt- I alao brought soma damp Wottiiis-paper, and placed Una onjbe stones, and fonnd it took omte a lonf fame to dry, and did not even char in a sragte case, e»> canting where it touched tte embers. H any clearer demonstration of the compaxsttve coolness of the stones be wanted, we bus it in the fact that a fad who was attuning Hear me walked deliberately right across the centre of the pit, with ordinary thin boots on, before the fire was rated and the stones thereby cooled. I examined ms boot sofas directly afterwards, and they were not even hot, and not in the least charred. (X camaa this lad's deed was qtirekiy otggneii by the manager, and ho was pmmpfly rcprosed. said any other would-bo wnratrrtr fire-walkers cautioned apirnst a repetition of the offence." The fire-waarcrs state that the stones wees much cooler than is customary in Bega.