VIENNA IN LONDON.

Otago Witness, Issue 2714, 21 March 1906, Page 30

VIENNA IN LONDON.

Earls' Court in London will be, during thti summer, 1906, the rendezvous of all tourists from the British colonies who visit London, but will not have time to go to the Continent. Why? Because they will see ther«, and will be able to visit, all the places of amusement with which one generally associates the Continent, and especially Vienna, for they will be able to see this year, in connection with the Austrian Industrial Exhibition, at Earls' Court, Austrian restaurants, Viennese coffee-houses, Dreher's beer gardens, theatres with by Austrian artiste, cafe chantants, Viennese varieties, etc., etc. A Tyrolese village, after »the style of the Swiss village at the Internationa.! Exhibition in Paris, 1900, designed! by the masterly hand of Kautsky, will form one of the special attractions of the Exhibition, and the famous " Wiener Maennergesangsverein" (Viennese Male Choral Society), the best of its kind on th» European Continent, and the Viennese Philharmonic Society will afford the English public quite a rfovel artistic treat. Earls' Court has been selected for the site of the Exhibition, as being the best place in London for outdoor attractions in the summer evenings. The purpose of the Austrian Industrial Exhibition, which will be under the patronage of his Eoyal Highness th» Prince of Wales, and be opened in May, 1906, ie. to propagate a direct trade between Austria and Great Britain and her dominions. The Exhibition will afford an insight into the manufacture of speeifio Austrian articles which are not to any extent manufactured in England, and which hitherto have been 'exported to England through other channels. The management of the Exhibition will be divided into two committees — viz., the Vienna Executive Committee, with his Exoellenoy Count Auersperg, the Austrian Minister of Commerce, as honorary president ; and an Advisory Committee, of which the Lord Mayor of London will be honorary president. The Exhibition will not only be interesting, but highly instructive for colonial tourists visitingi London, and no one going Home who desires to have an insight into Continental customs should miss this splendid opportunity of seeing gay Viennese life trans-" ferrea into the heart of London.

A Gore lad named Irwi:* Grant met with a painful accident on Tuesday evening. While attempting to break-in a pony ho was thrown from its back, and fell heavily on his shoulder, fracturing his collarbone in several places.