The new building is well lighted by four double windows, the saehus and doors being of Baltic pine, while the other timbers in the structure are red pine and totara, ard the roof of corrugated iron. Mr Thomas King is che contractor. It was in this room that luncheon waslaid for the Committee among | whoseguestsfortheday was His Excellency | the Governor. In addition lothefcxmi modation justnoterl, Mr W. 0. Davis had a marquee for the disposal of such i eixesh menta ?s do not come under the pro vLsions of the Licensing Act. There wa« the usual following of itinerant merchants and entertainers of the crowd, which must* have numbered several thousands, and seenied to be in ex cellent humor and high spirits. More accommodation has b^en provided in a totally different direction seeing that a track for showing the paces of such horses as had to be exhibited in harness and driven, or in saddle and ridden, had been provided in the paddock to the south of t.he main yards, and this greatly relieved the crush iif the latter. To the energetic labors of the Secretary, much of the very pronouncecj success of the Show was due. He was on 4he grounds early and late for two days before Show day, answering a question here, another there, rectifying an vrror of site in one place and adjusting the claims of position for the display of exhibits in another, giving a directing eye to fche appartienment of space in the dairy produce and exhibition shed and the decoration. \if its walla and those of the luncheon room, besides attending to the thousand and one little demands that are constantly,,made upon the man who 'fills his responsible position. Nor did he re c?ive much aid in the earlier arrange ments from the Marshals, although several loyal souls of that useful body (when the members of it lean to the useful instead of the ornamental side), stuck gamely to '.their dutinu from the very beginning.. "A nod is as good as a wink," &c, and we will not individualise. Right through, the Show was unquestion ably the best of the long series the Association has heUK The Ashbur ton Show, indeed, now holds a position in j Canterbury second only to the Me'ro p. 1 tan, which iven, in some re- \ specls, it successfully rivals. 