LOCAL INDUSTRY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1989, 9 July 1880, Page 3

LOCAL INDUSTRY.

There is now on view at the shop of W. S. King and Co., in High street, one of the handsomest specimens of local industry, in the shape of woodwork, that has been exhibited here. It is a grain case, intended to serve the double purpose of exhibiting at the Melbourne Exhibition and at the Industrial Association, choice ’samples of grain, and also the pitch of excellence to which our native woods can be brought for the purposes of ornamental woodwork. Tho case itself, divided into six compartments, with glass tops, stands on a table sexagonal shaped. The underneath panels of this table fronting the six sides, are inlaid with totara knot, honeysuckle, kauri, white and red pine and rimu, exquisitely polished and finished. The sexagonal corners are formed of very artistically arranged panels of knotty totara. In the centre of each of the panels is an inlaid square, formed of pieces of white pine rad rimu. The legs of tho table are built in four sections, and are made to screw in. The bordering is of honeysuckle, the corners of it filled with squares of red pine. The outside rim of the table is of kauri, the slab in front of each section of the case being of knotty totara, wedge shaped, with red pine and mottled kauri corners. The front panels of the dome, Ift x 2ft, are composed of knotty totara, honeysuckle, and rimu, with corners of mottled kauri, forming segments of a circle, and red pine squares. There are six bins in the dome, each holding a bushel measured of grain. These are in knotty totara, with kauri mouldings. JXhe bin is surmounted by a vase one foot high, composed of twenty-five different pieces of wood, including red pine, white pine, kauri, and rimu, arranged in alternate stripes. The case has been executed from a design by Mr W. S. King, and is certainly a very beautiful piece of workmanship, well worth a visit of inspection.