EXHIBITION NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9306, 23 March 1907, Page 5

EXHIBITION NOTES.

(By Telegraph — Special Service.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 22. The fire brigado competitions were caneluded on the Exhibition sports ground yfesterday, under most auspicious, caroum&tances. In tihe evening a banquet was held in the main Oirridor, over which De-puty-Mayor .Payling presided, and at which tihe , Acting-Premier, Mr H9II- Jones, wa» one of tihe speakers. In- the Concert Hall to-night Mr PuroaU Webb, ,the Neflqon organist, gave the last of his series of organ necdtals- before a large attendance. The school cadcte' encampment is fully occupied at present, tihe battalions in camp comprising f>li-e> 'FsuraaisLki f ajxd *V?<ajig£wniu companies to the number of 572, with 30 officers and 113 Nelson lads with seven officers. A large number of , schools from different parts of Canterbury and Otaigo havfc visited the Exhibition during the past lew v/<*]£s, being accommodated at the Exhibition "Home." Children from no Less than four schools, arrived to-day, and notice has been received' of the intention of seveiral other schools to make a visit sihortly. Two fine exhibits of perennial ryegraes, grown in Southland, have been placed in the Southland , court by an Invercargill firm. The weight of one sample is 331b to the jmperial bushel, and of the other ?41b. Weight? such ac these are very rarely met with, At the production of "Elijah" in the Concert Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday next, Miss Amy Murphy will take soprano, Mrs Lecren contralto, J. Carl Pushel tenor,, and, .John Prouse baritone. The oratorid will be given by the Exhibition orchestra^ and a choir of 340 voices, with. Henry WeUjs, the well-known Christdhurch organist), as conductor. Purchasers of tickets .for any part of the hcuse will be admitted, free- b6 the' Eithibition. , , There was a large attendance at "Wonderland" this evening to take party an the search for tihe buried; treasure, said the physical development competitions. The display of ladies?. arms and ankles did not take place, th© manager of "Wonderland" explaining when the ourtafin rose that the Aeting-Prem\er .had prohibited this feature.. Clever representations of classical statuary were given by a lady specially engaged, and a number of leading physical cultorista exhibited the development of their muscles in different poses, prizes being awarded to the best developed.