DANCES AND EVOLUTIONS
are still more go. From the entrance of tiie nations until the grand finale it is one incessant, ever-changing spectacle, marching, counter-marching, dancing, swaying, winding in and out and round about, chaining, circling, the units, tho .sections, the whole company of performers moving with perfect pieei&ion throughout a puzzling labyrinth .' of intricate evolutions. The grand march, although merely a single feature of the display, can only be described as a gorgeous spectacle. It has its climax in a brilliant, and impiesMve tableau, representing "The Meeting of tlie Kinpiie."' All the IfaUon.ll groups, together witli tlie Admirals, tlie Maoris, .Sailors, and Flower Girls, aie drawn up to receive Her Uraeious Majesty, who is driven into the hull in a iStae carriage. After the "review," and as the royal carriage leaves the hall after the singing of the Anthem, the whole battalion unite in the artistic waving of many-coloured sashes. Hags and flower-hoops, Referring more in detail to what may be termed
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 17 September 1900, Page 2
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