AUCKLAND NEWS.
Auckland, May 23.
Very few exhibits for the Sydney Exhibition will be sent from here and the number of exhibitors will be very few, Mr Albyn Martin will send several oil paintings.
Detective Morice who has served for the last five years in Auckland, is about to be transferred to JM apier.
The new burgess roll for 1879 and 1880 contains the names of 1796 voters.
The Hinemoa with the Premier sailed this afternoon.
There is on exhibition in the shop window of Jas. Ah Kew an oil painting of Sir George Grey executed by a Chinaman. The painting is excellent and true to life, and made from a recent photograph sent by Ah Eew to a firm of painters in Hong Kong. He has also a number of other portraits in oil of notable citizeni whose photographs he had obtained and sent to the Flowery Land for the purpose/ of enabling outer barbarians to see what' Chinese artists can do. All tbe portraits:are admirable and on canvas about 20 iDches by 26 inches. Such portraits can. be supplied to order from any photograph ■ at a total coat of seventy shillings. >
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West Coast Times, Issue 3170, 26 May 1879, Page 2
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193AUCKLAND NEWS. West Coast Times, Issue 3170, 26 May 1879, Page 2
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