JAPAN IN LONDON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2631, 13 October 1909, Page 6

JAPAN IN LONDON.

A COMING EXPOSITION. The great Japan-British Exhibition, which opens at the “Great White City,” Sheperd’s Bush, London, on 3rd May, 1910. is the first exhibition cf Japanese manufactures and products, on any scale worth speaking of, which has ever been held in Europe. It therefore cannot fail to arouse wen 1 , d-wide interest.

By this last mail there reached the Consul of Japan in Wellington come •exceedingly interesting information respecting the Japan-British Exhibition. An advance copy of the prospectus shows that 1f.1t.11. Prince Arthur of Connaught is ho notary president; his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, the president ; while the general committee is a very strong one, representative of the foremost men in Great Britain in point of rank and position, science, art, anti commerce. Indeed, the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 will he launched under the most influential and distinguished auspices. The Japanese section of the exhibits will be divided into eighteen groups, relating, among other things, to industries, food products, agriculture, horticulture, mining and metallurgy, textiles, civil and mechanical engineering, electricity, transportation, decoration and furnishing, fine arts, armament, and social economy. Visitors from New Zealand who happen to be in London next year will no doubt inspect the specimens of tho uniforms, armor, and weapons, and the models of the Japanese men-iof-war which are to be on view, with very great interest. Horticulture, fishing, forestry, and mining will also he adequately illustrated, because Japan is particularly rich in these departments. Then there will he some beautiful exhibits appertaining to the textile industries and costumes. Another novel feature will bo the reproduction of Japanese gardens in the “Great White City.” Skilled experts in horticulture, landscape gardening are to go to England from Japan, and are there to create, at Earl’s Court, tvmcal Japanese gardens. There are many other attractions to ho presented at the Japan-British Exhibition, but the above summary touches upon the main features.