OUR MINING EXHIBITS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 858, 10 August 1888, Page 31

OUR MINING EXHIBITS.

(per press association.) Auckland, August 6,

The special correspondent of the New Zealand Herald at the Melbourne Exhibition has sent the following cable message to that journal :“ I regret to say that the mining exhibits in the New Zealand Court are a total failure, and are hopelessly beaten by Tasmania, Queensland, and the other colonies. Immediate action is required to remedy this fatal mistake. Mr Whitteford, who is at present here, has written to Sir Harry Atkinson offering to contribute £IOO toward obtaining an adequate representation of the mineral resources of New Zealand, and so assistiug in creating confidence in the Colony.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Auckland, August 6

Commenting in respect of a cable message received from its special correspondent at the Melbourne Exhibition with reference to mining exhibits in the New Zealand Court, the Herald says:—“That our mining exhibits have been beaten by those ot Queensland is perhaps not to be wondered at ; that they are beaten by those of Tasmania is less creditable; but, that they should have been in themselves a failure at all is wholly inexcusable. It seems to be always so. The New Zealand Court in the London, Colonial, and Indian Exhibition was a splendid museum, but a museum only of facts and curio 3, the conception of a mind not in touch with our commercial I life, however much in sympathy with the secrets of scientific research. To that fatal blunder we owe it that New Zealand is outside of the influence of that wide mining enterprise which hroke at once with such force on the Bhores of Queensland, that presented her wealth of mineral deposits iD such an attractive form as caused an excitement among circles of mining adventure in the great centre of the world’s commerce. That we should have repeated the blunder again at Melbourne is too bad, though it was not unexpected, »b many who were deeply interested in this Colony in the coming show at Melbourne had denounced from the first the constitution of the body at Wellington which was entrusted with the work of collecting and forwarding New Zealand exhibits, O t things, that whioh we had _ all show was our mineral , 0 u reason to be too late yet to •*' _„acn. It may not are please'* repair the error ; and we that our correspondent has ~,n attention to it at the earliest mo. ment; and we sincerely trust that those who are more immediately - connected with our mining interests will see to it promptly that the fullest possible representation will be made of every class of our mineral resources.”