ThE EXHIBITION.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11871, 27 February 1907, Page 3

ThE EXHIBITION.

By Telegraph— Special Service. Ohristchurch, Feb 20 There has been a good attendance at the Exhibition all day. A special excursion train from Dunedin, which brought passengers at reduced Jfares rom suburban and country stations, introduced about two hundred visit tors. „„ The Hawke's Bay Maoris, one hundred and twenty strong, gave a splendid display of dances in the Pa. quite upholding the reputation gained by their fellow tribesmen who preceded them. The Maori stockade erected in the Sports Ground for the recent military tattoo is being shifted to the Pa, in connection with an elaborate sham fight, which will be heldbetween two parties of Maoris on Thursday afternoon. Exclusive Tof sales to the Adelaide! Art Gallery, are the chief sales of pictures from the British section of the Art Gallery made since the beginning of the year:— ln oils: [Southland from Surrey's Pleasant Hills, by BW Leader' £500; The Portsmouth Road by O J Holmes, £75; .Cottages by the Exe, by Af red Parsons, £3ob ; Through the Wood nearC Barbizen, by Sir Ernest A Waterl^w, £275. In water colors: Kentish -.Corn fields, by Mia AUingham, £20?;- The Lost Ferret,by Tom Brown,£lolos, Divi ded Attentions, by Lucien Davis, £50; The Leaf, by Eliza S Forbes, £31; Spring in the Highlands, by Geo Houston, £15; English Koses, by E Horwitz, £31 10: Off Duty, by S*ir James D Linton,£3o; The North Meadow, Crickdale, by A Parsons, £40; Fro the Depths :o.f the Sea, by J R Eeid, £42; Winter Sun Effect over Westminster,; by A Severn, £10 ; Bude Bay, by Frank Walton, £31 10s : A Dorset Cottage, by Mr AUingham, £90; Amiens Cathedral from the dhoir, by Sir Wyke Bayliss (deceased), £115; A Roman Garden/ by AC Guw, ■ B.A T £80; Le Cap de Carteret, by Yand King, £36 15s; View near Windermere, by A G Nowell £31? A -Surrey Chalk Pit. by Sir EJ Pbyoter, Bart., £130; Small Fish are' Better than No Fish, by Frank Vftp&d, £115. Etchings bave been sotiTto the value of ! £75 Bs. In sculpture : Mother and Child (bronze), by P Montfordr £12; A Merry Bake,- (marble bust), by H BertramPegram, £85; The Mower (bronze statuette), by H~ Thorneycroft, £50: Orpheus (bronze statuette^, by Mabel White, £10 10s. ,A large number of articles in the arts and crafts section have also been sold. The total value of sales for the two months, exclusive of sales to the Adelaide Art Gallery is £249 1 14s. Unique concessions will be made to children visiting the Exhibition for the daylight fireworks on Saturday aftarnoon. The Wonderland concession gis that tickets, which usually are only available for school children coming in a body, will be made availabe for all children, and similar concessions will be offered by the proprietors of the other leading side shows. The Besses o'th' Barn Band, who commence their second season on Thursday, will give a sacred concert in aid of the fund for the Colonial Memorial to the late Mr Seddon, The Besses o'th' Barn were anxious to do something to assist this project, the late Mr Seddon having been a native of their County of Lancashire, and the visit of the Band to the Exhibition having been the result of bis action. The Exhibition and sideshows will all be closed, and the Sports Ground will simply be placed at the disposal of the Band and its audience. Extra space accommodation, in addition to the main corridor, is be ing prepared for the fruit and dahlia show, to be held on March 6th and 7th. Exhibits are expected from all leading horticultural centres within reasonable distance oi Christchurch. The entries close on Monday next.

Other prominent attractions o'" the next few weeks will be themoto car gyrukana on March 9fch, and tbe sheep yarding competitions of the Cbristchurch Dog Trials Club on fcbe Sports Ground on March 23rd.