TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1888.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 18 September 1888, Page 4

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1888.

One of the prettiest bubbles launched into the air by Sir Julius- Vogel on his last return to New Zealand was his , exhibition scheme. There was to be an annual exhibition held at each of the chief centres of population, comj mencinjgf-of course—with'WellingtdDj but winding up with a grand exhibition illustrative of the products .of the pacific Islands, at Aucldand in 1890, to celiebraie the jubilee of the colony and the completion of the North Island Trunk Railway. The IV^lling-on Exhibition, which we were assured in the ! outset would be nearly self-supporting, i let the colony in lor a pretty lutle bill of and was only a poor affa.ir aiter all; and we heard ho more ab put the other exhibitions!'f We observe, however, that, a moyey ment has been set oh idot in Dunedin to arrange for the holding of either an internatibhalj ihtercOlohiali or colonial exhibition in that city next year. The proposal is^^topi^o^ietl_enece_sa_y funds partly by private guarantee and partly I- by State grant, and the promoteis&ve held : one or two; meetings to consider the-question of ways, and means. It • has been suggested that as Messrs L Joubert^ andvTwopehy^s __iJ_ibiuon in 1882 at ■ Christchurch was carried out for a loss of less than the exhibition in Dunedin ought not to , j cost more . than or Mx Twopeny, mo the Otago "Daily Tlmesi" however, points out that this argument is based on a faUacious datuni. To ycarry Out anything worthy of ; the name of International, be observes, the exhibition would have to be treble the iiize of that held in Christchurchj and '2, joss of not,less than or jQx s>ooo must be reckoned upon, 'l'ne jubilee Exhibition at Adelaide, Jae observes, involved a call of oh- the guarantors, besides the speni upon buildings by the Government. And the receipts in Adelaide irom entrance fees were more than . I could be safely calculated upon in a Vsmaller centre of population like-Dune-dihi Headvisies the promoters to try something Sless ambitiods^ not H6 ape Melbourne in a, small way, with its vast pbpulatioh an<_ i.ts expenditure «of -£150,000 5 but to be satisfied. ■ /with a colohiai^exhibition, or an intercolonial show at the utmost. The question having thus been Once more brought to the front, it is opportune to inquire whether Auckland has finally determined to give up all idea of holding a Jubilee • Exhibition. We hopethatthisisnotthecase^ Here, oh {jroiind teeming with historical associa- _ iions, amid scenes the most delightful -■ that the colony affordo, ought the jubilee c year' of Nfiw Zealand colonisation tb be 1 chiefly celebrated; and an exhibition —gathering together the products of the country; and exhibiting the progress .of the half-century—is the most apprq- " priate way in which to commemorate " the event. Tie Chamber p£Commerce had-tht-' fie> 'onof a Jubilee Exhibition under its when the I scher c w .first propounded, and it :i hatfii f Hy. evolves upon the representa--1 tive- of _,ur' mercantile and-manufac- * turih^ xaterestsi to revive the matter now that the tints is at hand when the " preliminary.preparations must be^made if such an exhibition xsto beheld.