The New Zealand Court at the Exhibition

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 21, 31 July 1886, Page 3

The New Zealand Court at the Exhibition

■ Th« W^fe';pe?p*!beii of 2srd' aftyV '* London paper' enjoying, "aa; ehor n>?u« circutation amongst the industrial classes in Kngland,isntaiqs tfie following ;--For some tea*m^aneiplaiiied ) TasTnama* ' is n«'t reprexeated in .the' Eslhibitipn ; but, th* Ne^2ejsJiii4*Jo*rt >is large and ; ex- 1 ccptionaUy inteie.stfngir : A Maori- storehouse an ample colle|ition of Maori implements and \ ! clotiji9fc^and " M*ne;> wrflexeevted modelsof Maipri men and wotoen' help us to understand the- conditions of life among the bray grtwJually exterminatiniH' ' ahd "-skeletons of • the extincl New Zieajand inOa, and other, birds idd' fishes^ are. viissociated with staffed animals and models, specimens of woods 'and vegit&tioj), and -so forth. Thoigh not^ utiwasonably reearded as a neighbour of Australia, New Zealand 16 a thousand miles away frorit^iti is. almost; tW antipodes .of Gye«t Britain, ; and flijoys i. jiriach „ more^. temperate climate than" "the great continent ivland. The admirably arranged specimens of ■' its produce in wool, . grain, and other commodities, .', including a liberal display of the frozen ments which it now sends to Europe, and of its Thrums manufactures.;, is eTidently intended, to Attract cmigrfpts ; and English men, who find ifeh«rd tif, earn a living in England may w«U giye h««d— 'if they do so iutelligently, and weigh tilt the pros and^cons as affecting their *wn fitneW or. unfitness for life in a new world— to the:ijavi, tution thus temptingly addressed to diem. M There is s.mpls' room," as we are reminded in the 1 preface to. the .catalogue, " for the comfortable settlement of a large and indu«trial population.:. The field for the judicious and profitable inTestmenfc of capital is very great. At the same time, flew Zealand is not merely a e-mntry fer speculators. It offer* speoml Mpabititie* for men with little or no «ie*as. who are -Wbie imd wil'in« to work, and'fof the spread of i?m*ll hemesteads."