THE NEW ZEALAND COURT AGAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7796, 16 November 1886, Page 5

THE NEW ZEALAND COURT AGAIN.

GOLD MINING INDUSTRY. A valued correspondent, writing from London under date October 7, thus speaks of the New Zealand Court at the Colonial Exhibition — You will seo in the Illustrated London News of October 2 sketches of the court; and just beyond, the timber trophy. You may behold the glass jars mentioned, which contain the wheat and other agricultural products of the colony. You will observe that the court as there depicted, fully bears out all that has been said about it. . The Exhibition is announced to close on November 10, but it will probably open in May next for the Queen's Jubilee. If so, the New Zealand Court should be entirely overhauled, and an agricultural trophy of a proper kind should be erected, and a strong effort should be made to bring the colony more prominently forward in every way. Queensland is going ahead immensely with her gold mines. Charters Towers and the Etheridge are attracting much attention, and companies are floated almost daily without any difficulty. In fact a great gold fever appears to be setting in for Australian and Cape mines. The quartzcrushing machinery erected by the Queensland Government at the Exhibition has done much to awaken publio interest in her gold mines; and, if capital be judiciously invested, no doubt great benefit will result to the colony, and many valuable properties will be thus developed. The enormous returns from the Queensland mines fully justify a fair trial. It is much to be regretted that due attention was not given in the first instance to bringing more prominently forward the gold resources of the colony in the New Zealand Court, especially as capital and improved machinery are so much required to develop the mines. Until the erection of the gold trophies, a few weeks since, no one could have imagined, by the display in the court, that your colony had yielded £42,000,000 of gold. But all this I pointed out to you from the first. There is plenty of capital to be had here for legitimate speculations in the colonies, but your Government have not gone the right way to obtain it."