The Melbourne Exhibition.
The brilliant spectacle of Wednesday will not be forgotten in the Victorian capital; and it will be remarked with astonishment by the whole civilised world. One hundred years ago a miserable expedition entered Botany Bay, to establish the parent Colony of the Australian Continent. Fifty years ago the kangaroo and the black man roamed at large on the site of Melbonrne. On Wednesday the finishing toaoh was given to the progress of the firßt Anstralian century by the opening of a magnificent Industrial Exhibition, covering thirty-five acres of ground, surrounded by all the appliances of civilisation, the vast crowds of a numerous, contented population, and the signs of superabundant wealth and prosperity. For New Zealanders it is a a great source of gratification that our Colony iB so well represented. For the first time our representatives have succeeded in combining usefulness and artistic effeot. They have displayed worthily the resources of our magnificent country, and they have made them singularly attractive. In a gathering which marks the beginning of a new era of Australasian unity and patriotism, that is a grand result on which Sir James Hector and his able assistants deserve the heartiest congratulations of the people of New Zealand.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6308, 4 August 1888, Page 3
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204The Melbourne Exhibition. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6308, 4 August 1888, Page 3
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