THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9605, 21 December 1896, Page 5

THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

The colony will be represented at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. The Government propose to join with the Imperial authorities and the colonies in providing one large building for a general exhibition of British products and manufactures. RESOLUTION ISLAND. Mr Richard Henry informs the Otago Daily Times that the statement that he had transferred over 190 varieties of birds to Resolution Island is incorrect. He has, however, transferred over 190 birds of one variety, and several hundreds of other birds. RAILAGE ON GOODS. The Dunedin merchants are evidently not inclined to pay the railage on goods from Port Chalmers to Dunedin without an attempt to test whether* a* cheaper mode of transit cannot be established. A. number of leading firms are calling for tenders for the carrying to Dunedin of cargo which will be discharged from Home steamers or vessels at Port Chalmers. ANOTHER IIIGHTHOUSE. It is intended by the Government (says the New Zealand Times) to erect a light on Rocky Point, near Cape Palliser, at the eastern entrance to Cook Strait. The lighthouse, which is now in course of erection, will be ready about June next. The light will be 258 ft above the level of the sea at high water, and will be a dioptric revolving white light of the second order, flashing twice every half minute, with intervals of three seconds between the flashes. It will be visible to seaward over an arc of 214 degrees of the horizon for a distance of about 25 statute miles from the deck of a vessel of ordinary height. A POPULAR PRESS-MAN. Oα the occasion of his leaving Wellington Mr A. M. Burns, of the Press Association, was en Thursday .made the recipient of a number of volumes of standard works from a number of his fellowrpressmen, who assembled at the Press Association rooms for that purpose. The presentation was made by. Mr Grealey Lukin, the editor of the Evening Post, and, after several others of the gentlemen present had added their quota in praise of Mr Burns, and he had replied, the pleasing little ceremony terminated. In the evening Mr Burns was entertained by the members of the Wellington Rowing Club, of which he has acted as Secretary, and presented with a pair of binoculars, a gold pendant {both of which were suitably inscribed), a gold scarf pin and a beautiful bouquet from the lady friends of the Club.