♦ At the Academy of Music to-morrow eveniug, for a season of four nights, an exhibition of pictures taken by the well known British Biograph Company will be presented for the first time here. When the war first broke out, the company ob tained permission from the War Office to send a representative with General Buller to the Cape and on to the front with the troops. The pictures so taken have proved a great attraclion at the Palace Theatre, London, and in the various colonial towns in which they have been reproduced. The pictures are taken at the rate of 40 to 60 per second, and are reproduced on the screen at the same rate. Each picture is life-size, and there are about 40 of them in the opening collection, the films of which roll out to nearly seven miles. As samples of the subjects dealt with may be mentioned: in the trenches at Kifle Hill, showing a signaller sending the following message from Lord Kitchener : "Have your picket under arms, and Bend out patrol. — Kitchener." The interpretation of the signals is easily discernable on the screen to anyone possessing a knowledge of telegraphy. Lord Dundouald's cavalry going into action near Spion Kop; six brigades striking tents to advance on Spion Kop, Indian bearers and ambulance bearers bringing in the wounded after the battle of Spion Kop; 12-pounder and 47 lyddite guns from H.M.S. Terrible bombarding Colenso, also showing Captain Percy Scott's ingeuious gun carriage ; Frere and Chieve ley camps, Frere bridge being rebuilt by the Royal Engineers after destruction by the Boers, the New South Wales Lancers landing at Capetown. Incidental to the war will be shown the Queen's visit to London in commemoration of the relief of Ladysmith, Her Majesty reviewing her own bodyguard prior to their departure for the front, and the Prince of Wales inspeotiog Paget's Horse on the morning of their departure. An interesting picture will also be presented of the Albatross, the fastest torpedo boat destroyer in the world, steaming 32 knotß in her trial trip over the measured mile. The last pictures captured, and which will be included in the present series, are : Meeting between Lord Roberts and Baden-Powell at Pre toria, Lord Roberts surrounded by his staff, planning the final attack on Pretoria, and hoisting the British flag at Government .House, Pretoria. 