THE EXHIBITION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13433, 26 March 1907, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION.

By Telegraph* — Special Service., '\ dHRIS^CIrI'URCH, aiarch JB. There was again a good attendant at the Exhibition to-day.. One hundred school children ,are from. Banks Pomi^ sula, and will remain at the Exhibition until' Wednesday. The Turakina Maori girls visited the cadet encampment' this morning and gave performances of pois. iTjih^ she&> ya>a^g ctfmjpjetitian on Ijfip spbr^s grotind-teSlay attracted an ,4*usually. large attendance. Tnere' was nor <$rch«iral' concert/this evening, the concert' hall being required for the rehearsal of the orator io> jah," to be given by tho/ orchestra and chorus of 140 voices on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings next. . V : <•' The sale of tickets in the Exhibition art union will close on> Thursday night, and the drawing for prizes take place on .Saturday. , ; , Mr Munro has received a request from Wellington for th>e. holding of tha final fireworks display on Easter Saturday instead of Easter » The matter is' under consideration.*' 1 Meanwhile a specially fine -.display of fireworks, in conjuction with ,the picturesque act of ''fighting the flames," and a concert by the massed bands will be given next Wednesday night. The following football matches will be played on ftie Exnibitiqn sports ground on J Easter Saturday and Easter day : —Albion l (Christchurch) V. Southern (Dunedin), Cbristchurch v. Wellington, High School Old Boys v. Wellington College O1«J Boys,* Linwood (Christchnrch) v. Union (Dunedin), Merrivale , (Christchurch) v. Alhambra (Dunedin). . - * iMr Government, Apiarian, gave an address 1 on Ijee keeping at the Exhibition on Saturday,.; particularly on artificial queen reaHiig, <ta a number of interested visitors. Similar addresses will be given pn Tuesdays, Wednesr days, and Fridays until the close of the Exhibition, but visitoys ;.cajt obtain in-formation-on b<3o-ko£ping every, dj^sy - There is understood' to be a probability, oi the Fpvncih » operatic soprano, Blanche Arral,, being heard in the concent hall at an early da.te* . (Per Press Association.) ' .CHRISTCHURCH, March 21. The period for-^eceiving tendersHfor the removal of the Exhibition buildings has been extended, till Aptfl-Sv ow|ng to the large numbef <ofj eaquiries^igade, and application for more time to work afpproxim&te of timber contained in the buildings