THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8970, 22 April 1890, Page 5

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

ART UNION WINNERS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, April 21. The Exhibition has been already greatly changed, and by Wednesday it is expected the whole of the articles in the New South Wales Court will be packed up. The Anthropometries! Laboratory is to be kept open for another week. The total number tested up to the present is 4571. The tallest person was a man standing 6ft Sin in bis stockings. The top weight was 19st 7£lb. The highest breathing oapaoity, 372 cubic inches. The strongest pull, 1931 b, A lady, a member of the choir, registered a breathing oapaoity ot 246 in. A number of males tested were found colour-blind, but no ladies were found defective.

The drawing of the Art Union took place to-day. As only about 20,000 tickets had been sold, the prizes were readjusted. The highest was one of £IOO, then came one of £75, four of £SO, two of £4O, two of £3O, four of £25, eight of £2O, fitteen of £lO, fifteen of £5. and thirty of £2, making 82 prizes of the value of £IO6O. Messrs J. J. Kinsey and H. O. Forbes, both of Christchurch, have charge of the barrels. The fifty-second ticket drawn received a £SO prize. The seventy-fourth ticket drawn secured the principal prize, and singularly enough one before it won a £SO prize, and one after it a second of £75, The winning numbers are—41,482, £100; 25,721, £75; 35,893, £SO j 31,642, £SO; 6546, £SO; 41,890, £SO. The following paragraph has been added to the official report of the Exhibition ‘.—"The press throughout the Colony has contributed in no small degree to the success of the undertaking. Our special thanks are due to those Australian journals who have sent special correspondents to report upon the Exhibition and the country.” A fancy dress ball was given in the concert hall to-night, and attended by about 150. couples.