THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7116, 14 July 1886, Page 2

THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION.

The Sydney Morning Herald's spocial London correspondent, in writing on the Colonial Exhibition, gives a very different version o£ tho state of the Now Zealand Court from that published in tho Auckland Herald. Ho says: — "New Zealand will certainly run Victoria very close for supremacy during the coming exhibition. The court is admirably laid out, and tho completeness of their arrangements may be gathered from the fact that the show cabes used for some of the exhibits were made in London, from New Zealand woods, at a cost of over £1200. The cases aro excellent specimens of cabinetmaking, and well worthy of being preserved for future exhibitions. They are also spending a largo sum of money in their fernery, which runs downwards from their court to an ornamental piece of water on the other side over tho Victorian and South 1 Australian sections. In a country so rich in natural'history specimens, it was only to be expected that considerable attention should have been paid to tho formation of a special collection for bo interesting aa exhibition, and Dr. Von Ilaast certainly entered on the undertaking con amorc. Manufacturers are remarkably well represented, although in this department none of the colonies quito como up to Victoria." The official returns of the number of visitors to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition from tho opening to May is 245,578. Iv the New Zealand Court itself, besides tho representation of indigenous Qowers on tho panels o£ tho walls, thero arc shown many objects oC interest, among others a collection of framed water-colour drawings of: flowers, named, shown by T. Russell, Esq , C.M.G. A large collection of framed New Zealand ferns, botanically arranged, and numerous albums of ferns. Mrs. ani Mr. Strong, of Christchurch, exhibit a large and varied collection ot ferns, fancifully mounted in designs and also botanically named, in books, cards, and portfolios, for presents. A. Bock, of Auckland, shows a collection of tha wild flowers of New Zealand, Thero are also silk screens, hand painlbd, with nativo flowers, and a largo and interesting collection, framed and glazed, of tho fruit and foliage of the forest trees of tho colony. These, with numerous drawings of scenery, convey an, excellent idea of tho (lowering plants and landscape scenery of New Zealand.

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