WELLING EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12625, 4 August 1904, Page 4

WELLING EXHIBITION.

POSTPONED INDEFINITELY. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION'. Wellington, Wednesday. The Premier informs the Industrial Association that the fact of the British Empire Exhibition having been postponed will not alter the intentions of the New Zealand Government to hold an international exhibition in New Zealand. Had the Government postponed its exhibition, the association intended opening the Wellington Exhibition in November, 1905. The position now is that the local exhibition is postponed indefinitely.

In giving evidence before the Court of Marine Inquiry at Melbourne in connection with the wreck of the K.M.s. Australia, Dr. Barrett, eye specialist, told an interesting story of a man who was blind in one eye for "years, and was not aware of it. The man was a sailor, and had been emploved as a lookout. He examined mm, and found that one eve must have been sightless for years, as 'there were scars ail over the cornea. Four per cent, of men. and about one-half per cent, of women, said the witness, were colour-blind. >» matter what the illumination was, soma persons would be unable co tell colour* correctly; while other? would make mistakes only when the illumination was not good. The names that such people gay* to colours were of no importance at all, foi if one said a red was gr«u* W colour would appear to his eyes what nt thought was green, but not what a normal person would call green A benefit concert in a.d of Mr Paul Richardson, one of the motormenof the electric tramways, who has been laid aside by illness for some months past will bo held. Ip the Foresters' Hall. Newton, this •renin*