THE EXHIBITION.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8095, 5 January 1907, Page 3

THE EXHIBITION.

MUSICAL MAGNIFICENCE

TOBOGGAN RECORD PUT UP

VICTORIAN'S PRAISES

(Bt Telegraph.—Special toWaikato TlME*> CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 4. The Exhibition dog show attracted a large attendance yesterday, and. owing to its great success, it will be continued for the third day at a reduced price for admission. The magnificent Exhibition orchestra is becoming more popular day by day, and the large audience on Thursday night enthusiastically demanded no less than three extra numbers. Miss Millicent Haywood. piano soloist, was well received at Thursday night's concert, and Miss Phoebe Parsons sang with much success.

Yesterday afternoon a chamber music concert was given to a fair

audience. Mr Massey, organist at Bathurst Cathedral, New South J| Wales, arrived yesterday to give organ recitals, but has postponed the first of these from to-day till Monday, so that he may have more time to acquire familiarity with the Exhibition instrument. Toboggan racing again drew a crowded attendance to Wonderland on Thursday night, and the time of 3- the winning couple was a record for the track. After the racing. "Demos" shot the water chute on a bicycle. with his clothes saturated with chemicals and blazing furiously. A constant succession of interested

visitors has patronised the Maori x Pah. |Up to the present 24,000 people have paid for admission. The departure of the Cook Islanders from the Pah, which takes place on the 12th inst, will be compensated by the arrival of a large body of Wanganui and Ngatiporou Maoris, who are expected to be here

very soon. The Cook Islanders, on their return home, via Auckland, will * call at Otaki and Wanganui, where they will receive welcomes from local Maoris. The Hon. William Knox, one of the Victorian Executive Commissioners, and a member of the Federal House of Representatives, visited the Exhibition yesterday, and speaks warmly in its praise. He conj eidered the whole design excellent, and says the dimensions of the Great Fair are quite equal to his expectations. He expresses himself as much impressed by the beauty of the position, and especially of the frontage, which the meandering Avon much adorns. The whole arrangement • shows, he thinks, great enterprise and 4 great design. The Besses o' th' Barn Band gives its first performance on Thursday next. The band will arrive from Wellington in the morning and will be met at the wharf by the Lyttelton Marine Band and escorted from the Christchurch Railway Station to the hotel by the Garrison Band. The ■* band will receive a reception in the concert hall in the afternoon and in the evening will be escorted by six local bands to the Exhibition sports ground, where the first performance •will be given. Enormous entries have been received from all parts of

the colony, and also from Australia, \ for the interstate band contest, V which takes place early next W month. The next display of Pain's Loudon fireworks will be given on Monday on the same extensive scale as on Hew Year's Eve. Mr E. T. Donne, General Manager of the Tonrist Department, stated in an interview that many residents in other parts of the colony who had stayed at home over Christmas for ) the sake of favourite holiday fixtures in their own localities, such as the big races at Auckland, would shortly be coming to the Exhibition. He felt confident that the attendance at the Exhibition throughout the remainder of its currency would be large. Investigation shows the very simple explanation of the fact that no large 'f bodies of school children are visiting the Exhibition at present under the special concession conditions. Both the Railway Department and the Union Steamship Company suspended its reduced rates for school children during the holiday period from December loth to January 15th. Again the Union Company's fare of 1 rfixb return from Wellington only applies to boys in parties or from two hundred to three hundred, and by coming as cadets most of these boys can get down free in the Government steamers. By the time cadets from school have arranged to make the free journey in this way .J there are hardly likely to be sufficient boys left able to make the journey at the Union Company's rates in a party of two hundred. Wonderland V s floral fete, which was to have taken place on Thursday text, has been postponed for a week ' so as not to clash with the opening performance of the Besses o' tli' Barn Band. / -