The Sydney Exhibition.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2969, 20 October 1879, Page 2

The Sydney Exhibition.

(BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPON. DENT.)

SYDNEY, October Btb. HAVING been prevented writing by the Wakitipu, which left here on the &th (the mails by her reaching Auckland presumedly only two or three days in advance of the present letter) I must not neglect New Zealand interests, but will give a few of your exhibits priority on this occasion. I first desire to make a correction of one of the names of the young ladies who played tho four pianoforte accompaniments to the children's chorus in Giorza's cantata. It should have been Ickerson not. "Jackson ;" and as the young lady in question is known in New Zealand the new name would uot be recognised by her friends. NEW ZEALAND BEER; .7

Dr. Hector has arranged this exhibit in a very plain but substantial form of tiers of shelves. .Ehrcnfried Bros., of the Phoenix Brewery, Thames, have some very excellent pale ale. It is very clear and of a delicate amber colour; the body is good, and the taste mild, but well-flavoured and of a fair pungent bitter. R. Whitson and Sons, Albert Brewery, Queen-street, Aucklaud, have some capital beer; the flavour^ is superior to many of our best Sydney brews. The Gisborne brewery, Poverty Bay (W. T. Crawford), exhibits ale and porter in bottle and bulk, made from colonial malt and hops. The bitter draught ale is exceedingly good. Alexander Hog"! is another Thames brewer, who gives us; some good invigorating liquor. Pray don't think that I tasted all these; brews iv one day; it required several visits to the Court, and several invitations from Dr. Hector and his officials to enable me to do justice to them ; but, in memory of my visit to New Zealand last year, I have retained a penchant for your malt liquor, high above my predilection for colonial beer generally; and a good beaker of it, nice and cool, now that the hot weather is setting in, is by no means to be despised. But it would require a book of Horatian, Odes to do justice to all the samples, so I must c'en content myself with mentioning the rest, adding a ;word here and there for any specialty. J. \i. Rockel, of Masterton, has especially some very rich ale brewed in 1878. It is uufermented, brewed by a process known only to brewer Gattscha ; it is made without yeast and not allowed to ferment. This is certainly a novelty, and gives a wrinkle to our big burly brewers. Marshall & Co. (o Dunedin), Martin (of Invercarg.il), Pascoe... and Co. (of Wellington), Speight & Co. and Strachan (Dunedin), Vincent & Co. and' Ward & Co. (U.iristchurch), Williams and" Sou (Picton), Liutott & Otterson (Oamaru), W. L. Daris (Wakatipu Brewery, Queenstown), Manning & Co. and the Crown Brewery (Christchurch), Harley & Sons, Hooper _. Dobson and Sharp & Co. (Nelson),are all represented in this exhibit, which will do good battle against the productions of our own vat-fillers. • MINERAL AND AERATED WATERS AND JUICES. G. Dickson, of Wellington, has a good case of these articles, well got up, the necks of the bottles being prettily tied with coloured silks, the top of tbe case being coronetted. We are not so rich in these useful medicaments ourselves as not to 1 welcome them here if they could be introduced here so as to compete with Schweppe or the Vichy and other foreign waters that are almost a necessary article of consumption aud of great use to the debilitated invalid. Lake Rotomahana and other parts of your wonderfully mineralised country must produce combinations that would ba efficacious for eyery form of complaint Kelly and Fraser have a good exhibit from the Puriri Springs, of which Dr Hector says that they are lit to rank with the best mineral springs of Europe. F. Archard, of Auckland, exhibits artesian mineral waters. 1 In this department Dickson has also a fine show of cordials, of which F. Gomez, of Bulls, Eangitikei, and Carew and Co., Dunedin, Jean Feraud, of Clyde, Alfred Gooch, of the Thames, and Moffitt, of In-' vercargill, have also a good assortment. i COFFEE.

W. Gregg and Co., of Otago, show _us that New Zealand is not entirely wanting in the production of this necessary concomitant of the breakfast table. They have some samples of the ingredient: a cup made from it would satisfy the most confirmed "breakfast-table autocrat." The exhibit;, takes the form and almost the size 0f 4 ».;. trophy, as if to celebrate the growth of the berry in New Zealand soil. It is not exhibited in the berry, but roasted and ground. The exhibit is arranged in tiers, and on the top is a case containing coffee and spice berries. The aroma is excellent, aud the' coffee makes as good a beverage as any from the West Indies.