The Ashburton Guardian.

Asp^URTON / Wednesdaf, January 2, 1901

Pbigb': : One Penny

The Paris Exhibition

THE CLOSING DAY

The Paris correspondent of the London Standard writing on November 12, aayfe :—For the last time the Exhibition of 1900 is this evening iiiuminated, and, with the doting* of the gates tonight, the Great Show officially ceases to exist, though it will, of course, be many months before its last vestiges have disappeared Fins^i bat wintry weather baa favoured thaw closing day, and the &ttendance,JhMjl besn very large, many people, doubt-*^ less, wishing to partake of ft final glance at what has certainly been ft triumph of French Art. The price of the tickets, which this morning were offered at ten centimes each, gradually dwindled during the day. In the early afternoon they were a halfpenny each ; an hour later two for that sum, and finally the five which were required to obtain admission to the show could bo for that humble coin. It is,the ticket guarantors wto especially hare suffered losses m connection with tho ' Exhibition, There were issued sixty two and a-half million tickets, each bearing a nominal face value of & franc. Up to November 4 j4efc upon forSM|^Hl million tickets only had been raj^^^^H the entrances during tJ^^^^^^^^H have not averaged half so that the total numb^^^^^^^^^H exceeded forty-eight k^^^^^^^^^H loss ia therefore snfi^^^^^^^^^^H twelve and a-half mi^^^^^^^^^^H| it must also be rem^^^^^^^^^^^^M sold never attair^^^^^^^^^^^Hl value, and that tn^^^^^^^^^^^^H tickets throoghou^^^^^^^^^^^^H he?v undnr half Wiib the Exhili^^^^^^^^^Hl mieeiona, however,o^^H^^^^^^^^H| The total number °^^^^^^^^^^H v&s a little over twenfl^^^^^^^^^Hl including the free the 4th of the present h^^^^^^^^H !«r entries gave a total millioos. But whereas thf^^^^^^^H hibition closed leaving satisfitd, the same can hardly^^^^Hl of the present show. During thej^Hl few days an army of bailiffs have hjHI to be mobilised to lev} distress war- * rants and seise the goods of over three ' hundred concessionaires, who have not been able or willing to meet their financial engagements. • There are very few people m Paris who, m years to come, will he pointed to as having made tbdr fortune at the 1900 Exhibition j bnt there will be a certain number who will remember having lost what they had 7

Tommy's Fetish.

: -^ : . Mr Hales the Australian correspon- - dent, is continuing his " Campaign Sfe etches "m the Daily News. He has an interesting but exaggerated descrip tion of Tommy's personality, from which we quote the following :—Tho order caelte to camp for a couple of houre, and then ' Tommy' piled his riile, threw off his kit, stretched him self upon the feathery grass, grabbed a healthy sized rock for a pillow, and munched his biscuit and chunk.of half raw beef or mutton with a zest born of keen hunger which was near akin tc famine. When he had assimilated hit food he drew forth that most faithful of friends, his dearly loved pipe, and smoked joyously, happy as any gutter kid for the time being, happy ia Jhii.,^. otter forgetfulness and irrßßponßibi)ity!f th He is purely animal m his emotions is ' Tommy/ He is brave because his father and his mother were bravo before he was begotten. He is careless because they were careless,* or else ho would never have needed to * list for a soldier,' Eight down m his half heathen heart he worships one fetish as devoutly as did the pirate gang who, of old time, swept the northern seas under that vagabond, Viking Harald Hardrada. 'Tommy's' fetish is the British public. He, poor devil, believes m them just as they believe m him. They know that no matter what comas or goes, 'Tommy' will somehow or another drag the old flag out on top aa he has always done. Generals may make mistakes, lesser officers may blunder hour m and hour out, bat m the end ' Tommy ' will even up .tbo score on the slate and come out on top. It's a way the beggar has. How he does it God alone knows. Wfiy atH does it &etß past me. I only know that he does it, and whilst I often feel that I'd like to punch him for being a fool I find myself m spite of myself, taking my hat off to him for an an anointed hero

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