EXHIBITION NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8650, 13 November 1889, Page 2

EXHIBITION NOTES.

Mr Nicholls has arrived to represent the Sydney Morning Herald. His Excellency the Governor has been advised that Lord Kintore will definitely visit Dunedin in January next. Lord Oarrington has had to abandon his visit. Mr Cheeseman, curator of the Auckland Museum, is sending by the Tarawera the large carved tilci (or gateway) of the Pukeroa Pah at Rotorua, lately presented to the museum by the Government. Messrs King, Walker, and Co. will forward from Auckland, through Mr H. W. Monkman, an imposing trophy on behalf of Messrs John Eobertson and Son, the Dundee whisky makers. It is designed after the Eiffel Tower, and will be one of the tallest exhibits in the building. The Auckland firm have received instructions to spare no expense in giving the trophy a good appearance.

Another important exhibit from the North will be that oil the Auckland Furniture Gozapany, a magnificent bedroom suite in mottled and wavy kauri being the chief item. FIiOFESSOE DICKINSON'S TOUB. The popularity of Professor Dickinson's lectures on New Zealand seems to increase as the lecturer proceeds on his travels northward. In ! Queensland the lectures were most sucsessful, and there are constant inquiries as to ways and means of reaching New Zealand. Another satisfactory indication of the condition of popular appreciation in Sydney is afforded by the following copy of a letter addressed to Professor Dickinson by tho Minister for Public Instruction in New South Wales:— Sydney, October 11, 1889. Professor Sidney Dickinson, M.A.,

Dear Sir,—l am anxious that your splendid lecture entertainment on New Zealand may be given for the special benefit and edilication of the senior scholars of our public schools, and £ make bold to ask you to allow my department to make the necessary arrangements for the same. If you will kindly agree, I shall be very glad to meet jou to make all necessary details of arrangement,—Yours, &c, J. W. Oarruthbrs, Minister for Public Instruction. The professor is at present making arrangements for a very elaborate and dazzling appearance on his return to Sydney. He purposes giving one of his New Zealand lectures in the uew Centennial Hall, which will be sufficiently advanced towards completion for that purpose ia January. There is a great white wall 40ft square, which with the great length of the hall—some 200 ft more or less—would be completely filled with the pictures from his apparatus. The hall seats 4000. Professor Dickinson expects to leave Melbourne for Hobart and Launccstou late iv December. He will give four lectures in Dunedin iv January and February.

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