DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 932, 10 January 1890, Page 19

DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, January 2. The test case as to selling in the Exhibition comes off to-morrow. Tne Exhibition Commissioners sympathi«e with the vendors, but were forced to take aotion through the pressure of three shopkeepers. Mr McMillan (Treasurer of New South, Wales) and Mr Dan O’Connor (Post-master-General) will accompany Lord Car. rington. They will arrive here on 11th inst. Judges have been nominated up to class 22„ but they have only been written to asking if they will act, and replies have not yes been received. It is expected that the judging of wines and beers will be the first classes undertaken, and as soon as replies of the nominees are received judging will commence. Sir Thomas McTlwraith was escorted over the Exhibition this afternoon by Mr T. Fergus, and expressed his appreciation of tha whole affair. The attendance this afternoon and evening was again very large. Captain Mangin Espionage, R.N.R., super, intendent of the Exhibition, states that the total cf tlip admissions from the opening day to the 31st December was 161,165, and New Year’s day added 12,462 to the number. Up to and including Nesv Year’s Day, the dispute between the Commissioners and exhibitors, whose spaces were forfeited, still goes on, and an indignation meeting is being held by the latter, whose cause is being championed by Mr Day, representative of seveial English exhibitors. Later. With reference to the dispute between the Exhibition Commissioners and vendors of goods in the building, the Commissioners have turned cne man out and taken his goods. A test case is to be tried, and Mr Solomon has been detained for the vendors. In the meantime the others will be allowed to go on in the building a 9 before, the Com. misaioners winking at their sales. Dunedin, January 3. Mr J. B. Patterson, Minister of Customs for Victoria, arrived to-day, and will stay about a month. Mr Oscar Meyer, Commissioner for New South Wales, has received information that the Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales (Mr W. McMillan), Minister for Justice (Mr A. Gould), and the Commissioner of Customs, Dr O’Connor, leave Sydney for Dunedin on the 6tli, and arrive here about the lltn. As Lord Carrington and Lord-Admiral Scott are expected about the same time, the New South Wales banquet will probably be given on the 15th. The attendance to-day dropped to 5368, including 2649 paid admissions. Tha electric light on the Eiffel tower wili be in working order to morrow. Dunedin, January 6. The legality of the sale of Australian wines in the Exhibition is to be decided by Mr Carew, R.M. The right to sell colonial wines in the Exhibition without a special license is to be tested, an infjrmation having been laid against Mr Fletcher, Superintendent cf the Victorian Court. The right of tha Exhibition Commissioners to expel exhibitors detected selling articles not manufactured in the building was the subject of a case heard to-day by tha Resident Magistrate. George Baghel sued the Company to recover £6 for being illegally ejected. The case was a test one, some seventeen other cases depending on it. The only question was one of law and was argued at length by Messrs Solomon and Hosking for the plaintiff, and Mr Stanford for tkß Company. Mr Carew expressed himself unwilling to give a decision as the question of title was involved, but as both sides urged him to do-so he said he would take till next Court day to consider it. Reports by the Exhibition officials show that keeping open continuously has not increased the receipts appreciably. Dunedin, January 7. At a meeting of the Exhibition Commissioners to-day, it was decided to keep tho Exhibition open continuously on Wednesdays and Saturdays, the men to be paid extra. The Exhibition ba3 now been opened six weeks, and the paid admissions numbered 126,537. They have then in six weeks exceeded by 33,000 the paid admissions during the three months the Wellington Exhibition was open The total receipts to Saturday was £lO,lßl 7s Bd. Mr Oscar Meyer, Commissioner of New South Wales, has received a cable messaga stating that Mr McMillan (Colonial Treasurer), Mr Gould (Minister of Justice). Mr White (M.L.C., New South Wales), and Mr f.Cddy (Railway Commissioner) left MoU boarne for DuDodin yesterday. Mr O’Connor was unable to come.

January 8. Mr Carew to-day gave judgment in the Gftse against the Exhibition Commissioners for ejecting stallholders detected in selling, fie declined to adjudicate, as the case was beyond his jurisdiction.