EXHIBITIONS AND PAGEANTS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2771, 29 March 1910, Page 3

EXHIBITIONS AND PAGEANTS

INTEREST THE COLONIALS. With its International Exhibition, its Empire Festival great pageant, various other shows, and probably spectacular politics, London should be more interesting than usual to colonial visitors this year (writes a London correspondent). All Europe appears to have become aware of Japan's resolve,to makp, the costly display of its arts and merchandise at Shepherd’s Bush an irresistible attraction. The principal railways on the Continent report that already they are making arrangements for excursions to London in May and June, “on a scale higherto unknown in the history of European exhibitions.” The Universal Exhibition to be opened at Brussels on 23rd April takes second place in the public mind. Though primarily concerned to increase the £14,000,000 worth of annual trade between their country and the. United Kingdom, the Japanese are anxious to make their wares known as far as. possible to the whole Western world, and 1 they have thrown themselves so enthusiastically into this effort that they arc certain to have a large measure of success. Their chief commissioner in London, Count Mutsu, is expecting, with well-grounded confidence, “millions of '.foreign visitors, among whom the exhibitor® may count on a> large number of prospective customers.” The Empire festival has been referred to as a rival show, but it a scarcely amount to that because of its •comparatively brief duration. It is announced that the organisers hope to receive and entertain at- least 1000 delegates from the oversea dominions and other parts of the Empire. The Duke of Norfolk is president of a committee which is arranging for a- reception of this British “family party,” as it is called.