THE COLONIAL EXHIBITION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8122, 19 March 1887, Page 5

THE COLONIAL EXHIBITION.

THE REPOETS OF EXPERTS. [Special to Press Association.] (■Received March 18, at 10.20 p.m.l LONDON. March 17. The following reports have been made on the Colonial exhibits at the recent Exhibition: — Mr Poster, a mineral expert, is of opinion that New South Wales baa the finest collection of coal and tbe best mining model. Mr F. N, Laslett, a timber expert, reports that New South Wales and Victoria possess hard and heavy woods, suitable for engineering and architectural work, and also to have a fair quantity of timber which would make good furniture. He considers South Australia and Queensland have but little timber suitable for export. Of the timbers of Western Australia, jarrah, karri and tuart are tbe most likely to be largely required for constructive purposes. He mentions kauri, puriri, rata, rimu and totara, as the best of tbe New Zealand woods. Messrs Sewell and Read, meat experts, say that the Colonial tinned meats are of excellent quality, and the frozen meat is everything to be desired. ’ All the New Zealand and a few of the Australian sheep show equal to the English sheep. The exhibits of the Sydney Meat Preserving Company and Messrs Walsh and Elliott are highly praised. Mr A. Baker, grain expert, considers the progress of agriculture in Victoria remarkable, and the cereals displayed are of a very fine quality. He regretted that the South Australian cereals were so poorly represented. New Zealand grains, he reports, are of the finest quality. The Chevalier barleys bring enormous prices.

Mr Anderson, machinery expert, reports that Beard and Lessons’ Victorian strippers, and Stott and Sons’ South Australian stump ploughs and cultivators, are novelties in England, Mr Foster, the mineral expert, considers the returns from the Band and Albion Consols mine, Ballarat, and the Mount Morgan mine, truly phenomenal.