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     the Exhibition opened. The Hon. T. H. Haviland, Mayor of 
     
     the City, and other gentlemen, also addressed the assemblage 
     
     upon the subject of the Exhibition, each of whom compli- 
     
     mented the Directors and Association upon their splendid 
     
     buildings, which doubtless compared favorable with those of 
     
     the sister Provinces. His Worship remarked he “could 
     
     remember when the Provincial Exhibition was held in and 
     
     around the old market house on Queen Square,” but as already 
     
     stated in these pages, with the opening of that fabric in 1824, 
     
     originated our present Exhibitions. For the last twenty-two 
     
     years the Provincial Exhibition was held at the drill shed, but 
     
     finding the space at their disposal inconveniently small for the 
     
     comfort of visitors and a proper display of live stock, they, 
     
     the Commissioners, sought and obtained the present site so 
     
     advantageous. Thus the change has been a very great success. 
     
    
   
   
    
     This year also witnessed the establishment of a second' 
     
     electric light station being erected on Upper Great George 
     
     Street, which, together with the first establishment of the kind 
     
     founded fifteen years previous, received ample employment in 
     
     furnishing supplies of their luminous production, which has not 
     
     only found its way to business marts, but also into many 
     
     private dwellings as well. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A visit to our shores by the Governor General and his 
     
     amiable Lady being in contemplation, preparations for the 
     
     reception of the distinguished party were, as usual on all 
     
     such occasions, completed in a manner highly creditable,—nor 
     
     were the town ever gayer or more thronged by visitors from 
     
     the country. On the morning of the toth of August, 1894, 
     
     the flagship of the North American fleet, with the Governor 
     
     General and Countess of Aberdeen on board, accompanied by 
     
     the warships Tarler and ruagzkrknne, arrived and cast their 
     
     moorings opposite Pownal Wharf. The landing of their Excel- 
     
     lencies at half-past ten o’clock was made known by a salute of 
     
     heavy artillery, and the music of the ship's band. Then on 
     
     ascending the wharf a guard of honor, under Captain Hooper, 
     
     presented arms, the band played the National Anthem, while a 
     
     salute of nineteen guns reverberated over the waters from Fort 
     
     Edward. His Honor Governor Howlan, and His Worship 
     
     Mayor Dawson formally received their Excellencies and con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ducted them to carriages in waiting.