NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, CHRISTCHURCH.

West Coast Times, Issue 3973, 27 December 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, CHRISTCHURCH.

Those that wish to be represented at the International Exhibition to be held in Christchurch in March next, should inform us of their intention. We have been connected with all the International Exhibitions held in the colonies. At the late Adelaide Exhibition we represented 50 exhibitors, for whom we received 10 gold medals, 49 first, and one second, awards, three of which were New Zealand firms, (D. Strane: and J. T. Martin, Invercargill, ond G. Bevan, Wellington.) Our plan is to represent the exhibitors, transact their business, fix the exhibit in its space, attend to the judging of exhibits, and anything necessary while the Exhibition remains open, and at the close repack and send their goods back, or sell them or duplicates thereof if required. It is very inconvenient for Exhibitors to h^ve to attend the Exhibition to fix their exhibits, and causes them not only loss of time, but loss of money which they must necessarily expend on them, then again the exhibitors have a benefit, they have no trouble in getting space, they inform us how much is required, and we secure it for them as we have a large amount granted to us. We fix, &c, the exhibits on a better space than if they applied. Our terms are moderate. We specially caution the public against gmng their exhibits to so called Exhibition agents, who have been the rounds of all the .Exhibitions, and run exhibitors into debt and other difficulties. — Albert S. Manders and Co., Bri'ish and Colonial Manufacturers' Agents; Head Office, 91 Little Collins street, East Melbourne : 67 King William street, Adelaide; Town Hall, Perth, Western Australia; Permanent Branch in Christchurch.— Advt.

It may not be , generally known that the " Salvation Army " movement has been started, though upon a small scale, in Dunedin. The Times says :— " Every Sunday evening a number of the male members of the choir connected with Mr Brunton'a services in the Garrison Hall meet at Cargill's Monument, there sing a hymn, and then march— singing the wbile— to the Garrison Hall. Last evening one of the number gave a short address also from the steps of the monument. It need scarcely be said that a curious crowd gathers round to hear- the singing ; but, save that there is a tendency to strike up opposition lyrics of a comic kind on the part of lads, the proceedings are orderly. Last night an unsympathethic sergeant of police gave the little band of singers the hint that they should not take up the streetway, but intimated that the eteps of the monument were at their disposal.

Mr Labouchere says that, comparing male and female clerks in public offices, the palm of efficiency is to be given to to the women.

That fish sleep, has been well determined by observations, conducted by Dr Hermes and others, in the Berlin Aquarium.

Messrs Byrant and May, the famous strike only-on'the-box match makers, aro talking of erecting a statue in London, at their own expense, of the Right Honorable W. E. Gladstone.