THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 288, 4 December 1889, Page 5

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

NEW RAILWAY CARRIAGE.

(BY TELEGRAPH.— OWK CORRESPONDENT.)

Dunbdin, this day.

Among the machinery exhibits has been placed a specimen of an improved railway carriage, lately constructed in the Government 'workshops, with balcony and small compartments, and also one of Scott's Christchurch locomotives.

The building was very quiefc yesterday morning, most of she people being away on the harbour excursion.

A good number arrived from Melbourne on Monday night. The Permanent Artillerymen have quite a busy time of it, explaining the working of the guns, especially the big six-inch breech-loader. Generally there is a Bmall crowd of ladies around them, who seem to take an immense interest in the details of these formidable weapons.

In a letter to the press, Mr Roberts says the entire cost of the Exhibition Buildings is £30,000, which is considerably under the estimate.

Yesberday " witnessed " a greab exodue of visitors, the trains and steamers being crowded.

The Harbour Board paid, a vieit of inspection yesterday to the Head worke. The party included many distinguished visitors.

THE AUCKLAND COURT.

Referring to the Auckland Court, the Ofcago "Daily Times" says: The Auckland Court is virtually complete. This remark implies high praise to Mr Holland (the local committee's representative) and hie assistants, for ib was only at the eleventh hour that, the eoope of the exhibition being realised in Auckland, sufficient funds were forthcoming to enable Mr Holland to compete on eomething like even terms with the other portions of

the colony. Once inside the court, the visitor cannot fail to be impressed with the variety of the display. Some of the exhibits are insignificant in themselves, but take them in bulk, the idea that is conveyed is that the industries of Auckland are most varied. It is quite in accordance with the fitness of things that this should be so, for does not Auckland monopolies to herself the trade that .New Zealand enjoys with the South Sea Islands, and are there nob in existence in Auckland industries which were only called into agency by the wants of the inhabitants of the islands ? It is impossible even in a cursory glance at the exhibits in the Auckland Court not to observe the extraordinary development which this particular trade has given to some industries. Take, for instance, the fish-curing industry. In the Auckland Court there is ample evidence of its healthy existence. There are jellied smoked schnapper from the Rakino Island fishery, tinned fresh mullet by a Kaipara exhibitor, tinned mullet from ; Whangarei, smoked schnapper and tinned mullet by an Auckland exhibitor. Then there are—something in a similar • line— tinned meats by a Kaipara firm and compressed and tinned meats by an Auckland firm, the extensiveness of whose transactions with the Sauth Sea Islands is beyond question. The laryer of the other exhibits are a display of leather goods by Ireland Brothers, exhibit of boots by William McArthur and Co., a very fine exhibit of kauri gum and varnishes by E. Mitchelson and Co., timber exhibits by the Kauri Timber Company, a showcase of lithography and bookbinding by the proprietor of the Auckland Evening Star, Hunt's bricks and Bycroft and Co.'s biscuits (shown by tho latter firm, who aro the proprietors of Hunt's bricks), a line exhibition of flax by Hesketh and Aitken, and another by L. D. Nathan and Co., hats and cape by W, H. Fenton and-* Co., and an exhibit of soap by Warnock Brothers. The Auckland Fibre Company exhibit two pyramidal trophies of their manufactures, and specimens of flax matting, which is said to be superseding coir matting. A bay is devoted to an exhibit byL. D.Nathan and Co. of their blended teaa. The bay isappropriatelydecorated—Chinese ornamentation being a feature of it; and the same is the case with a tea room which is an adjunct of the bay, and has a novelty in the form of a frieze of fans. We understand that this firm intends to give afternoon teas during the exhibition to ladies visiting the bay. *A rather ordinary looking exhibit is that of an Auckland patent which has recently become famous and formed the subject of discussion in the Victorian Parliament and through the columns of the Victorian prese. The exhibit is, of course, Pond's butter box. Among the other exhibits in the Court may be mentioned (to pick out a few to give an idea of the variety of the display) patent brands of flour, disinfectants, orange marmalade (tho interest in which attaches to tho fact that the preserve is made from locally-grown oranges), codlin moth insecticide, photographs, tire lighters, a patent kerosene tilt, yacht models, beer and mineral waters, saddlery, inlaid timber, butterscotch, perfumery, furniture, a patent incubator, and others.