July 20, 1896.

THE AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL.

171

LANDS DEPARTMENT PHOTO. SOCIETY.

Matters in connection with the open Lantern Slide Competition, particulars of which were published in our last issue, are in a forward state. We have been asked to remind those intending to compete that entries must reach the Hon. Secretary not later than the 27th inst. The exhibition itself is to be held at the Railway Institute on the 30th inst.

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N.S.W. RAILWAY AND TRAMWAY CAMERA CLUB.

The usual meeting of the above Club was held in the Railway Institute on Monday evening, the 6th instant— Mr. Carruthers, Vice-President, in the chair.

A letter was received from the Secretary of the Lands Photographic Society re a Lantern Slide Competition, to take place in connection with their Society the last week of this month, and inviting our members to compete, upon which it was resolved that, in order to permit members to do so, the Lantern Entertainment announced to be held by the Club in the Railway Institute during this month will be postponed until the 28th August.

A letter was also received from the Secretary of the Photographic Society of New South Wales, asking the co-operation of the Committee at a proposed meeting of the various Committees of the Societies in N.S.W., to consider the advisability of holding an Exhibition and Congress in Sydney in 1897, and it was decided that the Committee attend the meeting for the purpose of discussing the project.

The Competition for Seascapes or Seaside Resorts were dealt with—Mr. Petterson securing hon. men., 1st in Class A, Sections 1 and 2; and Mr. Leslie hon. men., 1st in Class B, Section 2.

Mr. Petterson afterwards gave a few useful hints on Stereoscopic Work, and the meeting closed.

PHOTOGRAPHIC COipTITIOJI AT THE ft.S.W. POULTRY, PIGEON, ip DOG SlfOW.

The Photographic Competition at the late Show of the N.S.W. P.P.C. and Dog Society was a rather scratch affair, as, by some oversight, the classification was omitted from the Prize Schedule. The Society is further precluded by its rules from offering money prizes for anything except the encouragement of poultry, pigeons, canaries, and dogs, but next year it is proposed to offer special prizes for photographs. The entries at the late Show were meagre, and the exhibits, with the exception of Mr. E. A. Bradford's, were of a decidedly amateurish character. There were, however, some very fine photos, shown not for competition, notably Miss Gertrude Preston’s “ Great Danes,” exhibited by Mr. Aucher, and Mr. H. V. Arrowsmith’s “English Setters,’1 by Mr. H. King, were much admired.

SECTION VIII.—PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION.

All Pictures will remain the property of the Exhibitors. Entrance free. Prizes, Certificates.

Class A—For the best collection of not less than three Photographs (any size) for Amateurs only.

1 Bradford, E. A.

2 Gray, A. J. H.

3 Caro, P. H.

Class B—For the best collection of not less than three Photographs (any size) for Professionals only.

No entry.

Class C—For the best one or more Enlargements, the work of an Amateur.

i Caro, P. H.

Class D—For the best one or more Enlargements, the work of [a Professional.

No entry.

Non-competitive Exhibitors.

King, H.

Arrowsmith, H.

Aucher, A. C. (Quodling.)

A Correspondent sends us the following description of the exhibits as they appeared from his view-point.

The photographic section at the recent Pigeon, Dog, and Canary Show fell considerably below that of any of the animate classes both in quantity and quality, many of the exhibits being libels on Nature and assaults upon Art, for which there was no apparent justification or excuse.

With about three exceptions—which in mercy to the rest we refrain from particularizing, beyond stating that they did not escape the judicial eye—the horrors gibbeted in the vicinity of the organ may be passed, with the hope that such a collection of strangled, foggy cats, tailless dogs (most of them, apparently, on the point of being hung in chairs), and paralytic pups will not again disfigure decent wall space.

One aspirant for photographic fame, exhibited an artistic composition, in which a feathered apparition doing Blondin on what might have been a piece of string, to which, for some purpose not specified, a pipe was attached, a Turkish towel suppying a highly appropriate background. If it had been placed in front, however, the general effect would have been improved. Fortunately, the entries were few in number; but it is dreadful to contemplate what might have been the result had some more alluring trophies than the paper palms awarded incited the noble army of “ snap-shooters ” to rush into the fray and do their direfu worst.

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VICTORIA.

VICTORIAN NOTES.

Mr. L. Hart gave a popular lecture on “Processes or Process Work,” at the Working Men’s College, on Saturday evening, 27th June, at 8 o’clock, and although the weather was wet and cold, the Lecture Hall was literally packed, and included many of the profession. Dr. Kaufman took the chair, Mr. Hart led his audience up, step by step, among the photo-mechanical processes

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