The Exhibits.

The visitor, however, who takes, as all visitors to the conversazione should, a lively and intelligent interest in local industries, will on entering the room at once turn to the right, and begin a systematic examination of the specimens thereof, shown for his edification and instruction. Here it may be remarked that last night the knowledge he would have gained would not in all respects have been complete, inasmuch at one or two exhibitors had omited to attach their names to their exhibits. However, the first thing to attract our visitor's attention is a case of hand-sewn boots, neat and well finished, and shown by Messrs. R. Nieholls and Co. Adjoining are specimens of an industry of quite another kind, the strong, well-made galvanised iron watering pots, and other articles from the works of Mr. T. Crompton. The Lyttclton Timen Company's "model" printing press, in charge of a smart and smiling "devil," will furnish him with a leaflet which, in prose and verse, advertises the conversazione, and extols industry. Mr. Luke Adams' potter's wheel, type of one of the most ancient of all industries, fitly heads a long array of "clay goods," ranging from firebricks and drain-pipes to vases of classical form, made of white terra cotia. Messrs. Fard and Ogdon, L. Adams, and the New Zealand Brick and Tile Company are the exhibitors.