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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5235, 25 August 1891, Page 2

If we may be permitted to use the term " cheek" in connection with " The World's Fair," to be held at Chicago, then we should feel inclined to apply it to Colonel Campbell's mission to New Zealand. Colonel Campbell is the " World's Fair Commmissioner " from the United States, and has left with us some copies of a pamphlet concerning " the greateet show thatthe earth will have ever seen, Sir." Now all that New Zealand produces, grows, or manufactures is subject to a prohibitive Customs tarifE on importation in the Statee. The came liberal spirit pervades the regulations relating to goods for exhibition at tbe forthcoming Fair. We are invited to send goods there to assist in making up the tally of attractions. If we do so the goods will be landed free of all charges ; but if after the exhibition those same goods are sold or taken back from whence they came, they are to be subjected to the duty " imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and all penalties prescribed by law snail be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal." 8o foreign exhibitors will have make a present of their goods to the couimittee of the World's Fair, or else pay a duty representing, perhaps, three hundred per cent above their value ! As no doubt every newspapor published in the towns through which Colonel Campbell may visit will receive the publications with which ho favored us, we invite our contemporaries in their notices of the World's Fair to warn their readers of what exhibitors may expect.