The Last of the Exhibition.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1753, 30 October 1885, Page 2

The Last of the Exhibition.

The Exhibition closes to-morrow (Saturday) night. I£ any of the Wairarapa settlers desire to take a last look at “ the big show ’ and witness the closing speechifying and other attractions in the shape of a Slay Pole Dance and a variety of other entertainments, their last chance is to go to town tomorrow morning and see the affair out. There is to be n cbeery speech at the wind up by Sir William Francis Jervois, who usually says something worth listening to ; while Mi Stout, the Premier , is to follow suit with one of his orations. On the whole, the Exhibition has Reived its imendeil purpose. It was the means of getting in one big building samples oi a I Uiu best h.'lii-iiial product# of the colony. Then people ii.mi -dj parts of both islands- from tne Nmlli Cape even unto the Bluff -gathered together the Exhibition and saw all Unit w.,s m itn'ii. In that way even body wlm is mii ie.-.tcd in the development of loom mmiMiies and manufacture, hud aiiopportui ily of learning what has aliend.v been done io that direction, and of comparing tbo production <••{ tbo colony as sent from the dilbioltt I'toviecial Districts. This examination and compaH-mi will be productive of good results. PiadßsaL meu, after going through the Exhibit;.,* would find that they bad imbib'd some luw ideas, and in time, these will work tluimc'vis into definite directions in tin; i-hupe of improved industrial pioeessis and new inventions. The Indusffiel Exhibition bus shown plainly that New Zealand wi.l yet become a great ‘manufacturing country, and year by year, as other Exhibitions of u similar bind are held in various parts of ibn colony, the progress being made in nianufuelming and industrial enterprise will become moie striking and reiuai liable.