WESTLAND AT THE PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITION.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 441, 12 November 1875, Page 3

WESTLAND AT THE PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITION.

We learn from the West Coast Times that there are now ready to be forwarded by the next steamer to Wellington thirty specimens of West Coast timber which have been collected, cut and polished under the superintendence of Mr C. Hoos, and intended to be transmitted to the Philadelphia Exhibition. Before the Superintendent left for Wellington, he entrusted the work of selecting samples of timber and coal, and any minerals which might be procurable, to the committee of the Westland Institute, who have been preparing a shipment for some time past. The portion of the work which was intrusted by the institute to the charge of Mr Hoos has been most creditably carried out, and Westland has reason for congratulation that its large and varied quantities and qualities of timber will be fairly represented at the great American Exhibition. Accompanying the samples there is an elaborate and carefully compiled description of timbers, giving the common, the botanical, and the Maori names of each piece, together with the quantities procurable, their present prices, and all information which may be considered requisite with the shipment. The specimens are from four to eighteen inches in length, are well polished on the face, and the bark in its original state remains on the one side. Each piece is numbered and ticketed with the name, so that it can readily be compared with the description forwarded. The names of the timbers sent are—iron, wood, totara, black pine, miro, white pine, silver pine, rowaka, black birch, red birch, dwarf beech, hinau, pokaka, red birch, white birch, broad leaf, fuchsia, ribbon wood, currant tree, hini ' uri, hau hau, lancewood, tutu, pepper tree, ake, yellow and white karamu. Another Th>x will be forwarded by the same opportunity, and to the same destination, containing a quantity of red birch bark, suitable for tauning purposes, together with a bottle of preparation of the tan. The committee intend forwarding samples of coal also, from the Grey mines, but that portion of the work they have considered can be better executed by the Brunner Coal Company and Grey Coal Company, who will probably see that specimens from each of the mines are forwarded .