it has been with this colony.  A musical society has for some years
flourished here, and a few months back in society for the encouragement of
painting was started — yclept [sic] the Wilgie Club.  This Club, although
in its infancy, determined to hold an annual exhibition of paintings in
oil and water colors [sic], and has met with much encouragement, for the
collection which Lady Fraser has graciously consented to open on the 4th
June next will comprise a large number of paintings by modern English
painters who exhibit regularly at the Academy and other London Galleries,
as well at the Salon in Paris, and also many pictures from the collections
of residents in Perth and the neighbourhood, in addition to the
contributions of members of the Wilgie Club.  The exhibition will, we are
confident, be highly appreciated, and we trust that it will meet with such
success as to ensure its annual repetition and the founding of a West
Australian School of Arts, and so prove that we are not behind the Eastern
Colonies in our love of the beautiful and true.  We understand that the
Hon Secretary, Mr Bernard H. Woodward, will be glad to receive intimation
from any gentlemen, who are willing to lend any pictures in their
collections for this exhibition.