AT THE EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2997, 8 December 1896, Page 3

AT THE EXHIBITION.

AN ENTERTAINMENT OF DANCING. “ Oh, it was lovely I” was tbo enthusiastic verdict last night of tho largest possible audience that conlcl bo crammed or jrtmmeu into the Concert IfrtU—tbo rOcord house or tho aoaaon. The entertainment cpifipri.aed.no loss thria sixteen items, which amoufiiod to nearly double that number with tbo encores, arid wa3'. given . under the direction of Miss Loero, whoso pupils, all juveniles, were tbo performers. In spito of a bad orchestra, tho children performed thoic light ana airy tasks very well, and brought down tho bouse repeatedly in their unconscious and unrehearsed effects. Particularly 1 pleased wore tbo audience in this 1 ittcp respect with tho daintinesses of the two dots, Misses L. Levi and K. Collins. It was rather much to ask such little ones to undergo tho task of a repetition, .yob last night tbo smaller tho performer tho more emphatic was tbo encore, and consequently it was 10 o’clock before tho last item was finished. Tho dances wore of the most varied char* jtatoh, .the cdmpaily . ditnoin.tr tho . Spanish Cr.cliuofoa, an old English Minuet, tho Daisy Gavotte, a Waltz Minuet, a Ribbon Keel and tbo Snowflake Gavotte. The dressings were not only faithful reproductions of the times represented, but were most lavish, and the effect of tho dressings was heightened by limelight effects, although tho little ones most frequently pirouetted outside tho lino of light. The solo dancing formed a goodly portion of tho programme, and every one was encored. Miss Winnie Pollock gave a Moorish Tambourine Danoo ; Miss Connie Knowles) t Tyrolese Nat»onal Dance • Miss Leila Levi’s fan dance Wart one of the bust things of tho evening; MUs Mabel B“,i?.uistcr earned a shower of, bdUqilet# and in choose.fbr Hdrhealiy graceful skirt dance ; Miss Monica Conpland’a contribution was termed a Pas do Soul, and her manipulation of her skirts was well managed. Tremendous applause was tho reward woe Misses L. Levi and E. Collins for an Irish jig; and in the ta Cigalo gavotte, tho duo by Misses hlmkins and Malcolm w.ia highly amusing in its unrehearsed effects, a bouquet an * an encore sadly upsetting tho petite debutantes. So'/oral itoirs, two overtures and a wait* were given by tho orchestra. On tho conclusion of tho programme, Mr W. H. Millwafd, on b.ehalf of the Executive, ftUnounriod that; at tbo rCrinrst p! ifiany.&ho iuVl boon unable to obtain admission, Miss >ooro had kindly consented to repeat the performance to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. LOCAL INDUSTRY, STAPLE PRODUCTS AND VALUABLE WARES. TUB WELLINGTON WOOLLEN MANUFAO i TURING COMPANY, LltflTßß. • More Hiatt. usuAUy interesting to Wcllingtonians in particular and Now Zealanders in general is a very largo and prominent exhibit running almost duo north and south and occupying half the transept abutting upon tho hall of machinery*. No one can miss this .exhibit, because ,in tbo beginning of it i.s;that very .interesting,; if noisy, pair, the ipoins.. nfj the past aV.a present. , Tb*s the display inado by orio of our very own ventures and. enterprises, tho Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company, which has its mills at Koro Kero, Petoao, and its clothing factory right in tho heart of our city, employing hundreds of the people one meets every evening on our promenades. Its directors are nil prominent busino-js men—tho Hon Charles Johnston being chairman, with Messrs C* B. Zollrab, A. K. Gibbs, Arthur Warburtoiij W, H. P. Barber, and W, A» Fitflhorborfe as a board—and tho general manager, Mr M. G. Heolos, is well known to us all as one of tho most energetic, enterprising men that has everputlifointoa looalindustry. Mr A; E. Donne is tho secretary to tho Company, And that ho is tho right man in the right place also goes without saying. . . In tho beginning Of the wdblletl Inddstry, «s wo know it) was tlifl loom; And to the did tta well as tho young tho exhibit now Under notice Appeals very strongly as an object Icusoh, In'the ovoiiitigiS tlid nlrtollirioryid, at Work, and'Wo are shown'the loom of long ajjo in competition with that of to • day, as used out in tho mill at Petone. Exactly tbo same quality of cloth is turned out by those rivals, but tho length turned out by the modern in two days would take tho slowcoach about a month to produce. And that tho inventor has not ceased to improve oven such an item in its make-up as tho shuttle • is proved by the • fact • that every year tho Patent Office records yet further touches towards its’ perfection.’ ' Between tbo looms and a trio of sowing machines hangs a length of finished tweed. Take notice o? this, because it fills a groat gap in manufacture. On Thursday week tho loom in tho Exhibition turned off that length in tho rough; it was then taken out to Petone, nulled, scoured, out and pressed, and on tbo following day it was taken back to tho Exhibition a complete piece of the Com* pany’a noted dress tweed.- Mr W. Ramaden is the m(ll manager. 4 'Following out tho progressive stages of such another piece of cloth—and those stages may All bo folloiVSd abthb stalls—tfo oomo next to the duties of those three Singer’s sewing machines. They represent the factory phase, and it may bo mentioned, by tho way, that there are dozens of those machines driven by electricity at the factory, whore tho girls are saved that treadling exertion which is a weariness to tho flesh and a ruin to tho health,. In tho faetory, of which MrJ. Osborn is the manager, over a hundred hands are kept busy, and in tho Exhibition those throo machines show that buttonholing is not confined solely to political candidates at election time, bat? that it is successfully applied right hero. ' That intricatelooking machine and its neighbour are buttonholers, the other one is- a feather-stitcher, which plays a prominent part in tho fancy work upon Crimean .nd other shirts. All the loading drnpery nnd clothing houses of the Colony givo proofs of tho next stage, boin«s the made-up. suits for which tho factory is noted, and in tho latest cuts' and fashions as seen any day in Prino<» street, Dunedin, tho Square, Christchurch, Lambton quay in our own city, and Queen street, Auckland. There is a whole stall full of examples hero before tin —full fashionable suits in tho beat Petone tweeds, in Cricketing flannels, in worsteds; cover coats and dressing gowns: shooting suits; and made-ups for young ana old, loan ana stout, long and short; in grey, black, brown, in hues, tints and heathers; in strips, pieces and lengths. Tho tweed’s tho thing—-and hero you have it, and all from tho Company’s own making, all bearing tho woll-knoWn brand “ Petone,” To lady visitors special attention must be drawn to a portion of tho space set aoirfc for the display of wares to their* taste. The Company are making a specialty of ladies’ tweeds, and here they justify their power to do justice to a very critical sox. “ What to wear ” is a far more important sox problem than those dealt with in Now Woman books, and it may be solved by a lodk.hefe. See tbit qsritrrij Model, wearing a handsome fawn riding;habit, with wHitq vest (and this critic takes the word of the manager that the underskirt is a patent, which, gives hitherto unknown facilities in horse-back riding); or look again at the. figure dressed in a fawn cloth Walking,costume, trimmed with brown velvet; or..yet again that smart blue cloth walking dross, with white vest. Those are all of the latest fashionable stylos, and all tho work is done at the Company’s factory from material jnanufaotured at their mill. A-tistically ‘scattered round, are tweeds and .cloths in shades , to please all tastes, and in varied material, from canvas cloth to Harris tweed. „. A sis fitting and proper, blankets have a snug corner all to themselves. Tho Wellington .Woollen r Manufacturing Company w justly proud of its blanket ware, and a gossip with.the export, Mr S.,T. K, fcharp, teaches one that there is more in a blanket to admire than we groundlings wotof. This Company’s brands are known and slept upon and under from the farthest north to tHo extremist south ; they are made id all known qualities, from crossbred to the finest merinos, and are known by ench names as theMoa, tho Wellington, the Petone and tho Queen, this latter being really worthy the name, a veritable aristocrat among, blankets, made from the very finest merino procurable. Now we go bi>ek to a pyramid- set apart for a display of hoisery of every class and quality, and tint and make—singlets, drawers, socks, stockings, cycling swoateis and hose, shirts, Combinations for both sexes, pyjamas, &d.; and just opposite the blanket bar is a showcase literally packed with the choicest of under wearing apparel • and rugs, and flannels and hoisery, ana a multitudinous collection—a general glance, not to mention detail, proving what a great undertaking this Company has in hand. Another step along, looking immediately behind the sewing machines, and there is soon an archway built, up from the material manufactured by and for the Company’s use in the hosiery department—worsteds and fingerings, and yarns more interesting.to. the average housewife than any turned out by Haggard, Kipling, Corelli or local politicians ; and in equally agreeable.shades ; ..aud 4 mixtures.. nV\ i- ■ Yet again, and there is found a fine display of rugs, shown at the northernmost end’ot the 8 Ift x lOfc. space, arid also suspended, draperylike, between the different divisions,These rags, known as the Harris, the Glasgow, the Premier, tho Petone, arid even to the classic Niobe, ‘‘ fill the bill” for,all tastes .and climates, and weathers. " Tfieri' theirrevorsible buggy rugs are undoubtedly. a feature, one specimen showing on one side merino and the other feels like *. .crossbred ; arid’ another had the tartan of the Logan against that of the Macbeth. .And writing of tartans, just take a note of tho minds and shawls, made in colours to suit tho Stewarts, the Malcolms and the myriad Macs. And on an opposite bench the Company show what they can do with their heavy tweeds in horsecloths and tugs. Mention has not yet boon made of one of tbo most popular lines tamed out by this JUompany—flannels;.. These* in every quality, and colour and tint, play an ornamental as well as a useful part m the exhibit; and' just hero a word may be said of the artistic manner in which Mr Sharp (who is in. charge of the display) has arranged his material. Conspicuous is the roof decoration, in all the glory of flannel, festooned and hung, and two kaleidoscopic centrals round an electric'light are triumphs. Much taste has been exercised throughout, and as a whole, with the bright aud the medium colours intermixed, the exhibit stands for one of the brightest and best spots in the whole Exhibition ; and, in cade it should be overlooked, it may be mentioned here that what the Company show in tho Exhibition is only examples of what they turn out every day and week and month in the year. In the playing of tho; ancient game of golf it in not given to, every player to be a champion, but every patron of the W.W.M. Co. can go close, to high, honours in name, if not in deed, when wearing thoir specialty, ” The Unlickuble.” This cloth well bears out its name—a name stiokable in the mind of tbo reader it is—and ifc is just the thing to go on tho links at Miramar, tho Mutt, or even the far-famed tit. Andrews'itself with—which is aot too far for such cloth to travel. The tint of “ Tho TTnlickable ” is after nature and tho heather, and adds one more claim to its appeal to golfists. Another specialty is box cloth, suitable for

uniforms and liveries, and 80 strong that all tho .proverbial king’d horses coulcTn t tear it in yde'k-’h . it remains but to draw aUfiLißtl *o .ri Exhibition rule and its exception. I| 10 visitor is requested not to touch ” strikes tho eye prominently iueverydirecUoa- excepting at tbo bays of tho Wellington Wool.on Manufacturing Company’s display. Here the visitor—the careful, canny, savo-all housevrifo and thH critic?!, fa-rMdlous Well-to-do; the farmer and tho export, tbo tdrtrist And the colonial—is requested to feci and smell and touch, to thoroughly handle <md examine cp'cK and every article shown. Th.o Company courts every enquiry, for in criticism there in satisfaction, in HatisfHCfcioa there is trade, in trade thorn is success —and towards tua* goal li(j« the ambition of which this Company, with a full knowledge of its own powers, is certain of attainment. The W.W.M. Company not only deserve success— they now may bo said to command it and tho market. ANDERSON AND CO., THE CHRISTCHURCH

MEAT CO., AND CJKNEUAL AGENCIES. The chief feature of tho largo exhibit of J, Anderson and Co., a loading firm of merchants trading in Wellington, is the display of “ Morepork -which does not necessarily rncah there,. iJj rriqro pork aho’.'/rl than any oilier product, for tho whole ntrigo. of the hLiU’h contents are ay varied as tinned goods, oils, sauces, inventions for builders, chemicals, preservatives, coffees, spices aud suchlilco can make it. Still, what with the full figure of a preserved porker and various joints and other part ons of l«is carcase, in all the glory of a healthy, tempting looking tint, tho leading product Of that most successful concern, tho Christchurch Moat Company, for which the Anderson Co. are wholesale agents hereabouts, does fitind out prominent. Sonic Uttlq tide ago there wax an agitation northwards of this city of burs to boom Too Pig as an article of trade. I.f Chicago bad succeeded. In IJecpoiiag. a Porliopolis, y;h y riot •N’ew Zealand? Aud cUfring tHif tlrnp the City of the Plains has beeff the locale of a, Company which has given practical prooi of tho possibilities of such an industry. It would take columns of space, instead of tho inches at our disposal, to set forth the triumphs in tho trade of the Christchurch Meat Company, but the visitor to our fsbibitinu can grasp something of it for himself at tho stall under notice. Several large photographs *jboW the large arch's covered by tho Company’s works at various phlcesi in Canterbury; tfnd here, at the stall are to bo spCn, In .every, conceivable form, the uses to which thh pfg- ie p,dt. ticjH’ee a bit of waste is allowed. . And who *n part* does not know tho sweet flavour of the Morepork? ft is one of tho bost-adverti-H’d products in tho Colony—advertised not only by tho striking device of Maoriland’s peculiar owl’s head and tho bird’s but by every diner who has had a slice of its tasty hatns. In hams and sides, in tins and parcels, potted and frozen—tho C.M. Company are the freezers ill .ihc Colony—"stacks upori stacks dro £ortt rill oVor the wMrld in seasonable limes to suit alt markets, and wherever tinned moat is eaten the “Safe” brand is known and eaten of men. But J. Anderson and Co., although making a specialty of Morepork, do a very largo manufacturing business on tjieir own account. There is scarce a houseVrifo but knows of apd uses tho Joulbo brand baking povVdef. Ii is highlyjpopiilar iu Canterbury, whore Mr Anderson first btought it out, but Wollingtoniana also arc ” on to ” Its good qualities, and it is used throughout the Union Steam Ship Company's service—and tbo Union Steam Ship Company know what’s what, Tho same remarks as above used also apply to tho Anderson Oriental coffee, which is in daily use at our loading clubs and restaurants, a 3 well as the Sultan, Rajah rtiid brands. Tho firm’s speciality, Cafliilli, of soluble coffee essence, is preferred by those who have tried it before all oilier coffee mixtures. Then the very highest faculty-praise bas bscn given to Dr Kirk’s farinaceous foods, pul Up by the firm, as good for infants, invalids ond tbo aged, riJi tlio best imported from Komo. Wlicrttena, Or whole nimtl, is ii special p"e* paratidti; utilf-tailing floai, ogg-powddrs, groUrid rice, peri ideal, spices, ginger rind popper • and Anderson’s -Poultry Tonic will not only make lazy hens sit up smart, hut, . priradorioal as it may seem, will make them lay also. All tlieJo manufactures of the finu are Vopfodentrid tHo 300fb space Used by them at tho Exhibition. Thou at tho southern end, and juat round its corner, are shown cans, cases, tins, packets and parcels of articles for which J. Anderson and Co. are wholesale agents in Wellington. The briefest of mention only is possible, although most of the items are of colonial manufacture, and the New Zealand Tirtiss aims at maintaining such patriotic mottoys as ” New Zealand for Now Zealanders” and the encouragement of local enterprise.” From Dunedin comes Menzios’ Wocoostcr sauce, rind not to know this mixture is to bo in ignorance of an added relish to a cold liinch. ChridtchfircU supplies a show-case full of the specialties of Mi’ Barnett, manufacturing chemist—essence of rennet for the cooling jankot-mnking, lime fruit"oough linCtus. Coffin’s powders, hair restorer, ris Well an itatamrin cream to restore the gloss to tho best tftn footwear, influenzakiller, Compound syrup of phosphates, glycerine suppositories, &c. The Barnett preparations fdr tlio sufferers from debility are of tho very best kind. Di* Prin?, Of Christchurch, is a name which colonials know a* a “ sound ” one, and tho hypophosphatos of Mr Barnett were preferred by him before imported mixtures. Of special interest to Wellingtocians arc tho inventions of Mr Wm. McLeod, of Newtown, who also makes tho stuff shown. His pumiaestoao soap will Wash anythin*' but clothes'; his hydroloino aoapdeoa wash clothes as well as a host of other diefcv articles, is the king of cleansers, a great labour flavor, and totally different to any other offered to the public} his waterproof paint appeals to builders arid contractors; arid MoLeod’s antifouling has been so fully tested upon tho bottoms of tho U.S.S. Co.’s and other simmers, as well as upon hoUso-topa and other roofs, that tho inventor easily gats high honours against the best makes imported* and 1 for cheapness it is ahead of all others. Experimentalists, who prefer to try ere they bU'’. may got a sample box of a champion metal polish, known as the “ Matchless,” and it comes straight from the World’s tkiir with blushing honours fall upon It, as ” the king of moUl polish and the talk of the nation.” OUr friends from the country gather round the exhibit of Jamieson’s Food Preservative, for sitfb things appeal direct to them, the problem ovGr behig how to keep fresh and pure tho milk, meat, butter and eggs. Mr Jamieson has found the secret foe purity as well as barmlessuoss, dairy experts give it every commendation, and for this as well as every article named above, the good name of the J. Anderson Company stands as a guarantee that the quality is rather under than overstated, and for the whole exhibit tbo firm deserve well of the executive of tho Exhibition and of city folks and visitors.

ThS Executive and Mr Seagor have prepared a goodly list for the immediate future. This afternoon the children from St; Mary’s Ofphamigo will bo entertained by a lantern tear through Borne and thd Vatican, interspersed with readings and, singing. Tomorrow afternoon tho nsnal Wednesday diversions through tho slides will bo provided for families. On Thura lay afternoon the inmates of tho Old Men’s Home and St. Joseph’s Orphanage pay a visit, andwill have a good programme prepared for them. On Saturday families will again be specially catered for. Next Monday night is to be devoted to a slide-show • from the stories of Charles Dickons, the pictures being taken from life models. Very successful Kinemaioscopic seances were given last night in tho Edison Electric Hall. The entertainment for visitors this evening will bo provide! by the talented pupils of the Convent, when a rare musical treat may bo anticipated. On Thursday evening Madame Cope and her pupils are to give a concert programme. | |The great attraction for next Saturday will bo the Cash Amateur Cycling Sports. Entries to tbo number of 130 have been received, which include herwood, a Victorian rider, who finished second to Parsons in the record event run at Adelaide recently. Many New Zealand cracks are also competing.