The World's Fair.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 27 June 1891, Page 2

The World's Fair.

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Our cousins are assured as to the success of the great Chicago Exhibit tioa, The managers report that ao> ceptanoes of foreign na,tiphs, thus far received, insure beyond all : fl[6ubt the international cliaraotQi- of the} Exposition. France, Great Britain^ Spkin, MGxicp r Venezuela,, < olupbia A Nicaragua,. . ; J^on£uras r/ and Peru, and fully a dozen, pther na» tions have virj^l^ poinpit^'th'emselves to participation-, anc( axe ,gnre to accept. Indeed, ' the- /; iacceptabce of France and Elnglaridinsur"eV that of all other nation? of consequence. We Had a cablegram some two months ago asserting •, that ; Hrn ;yery serious split had occurred in the iiiiariageinent, likely to wreck the whok fccbeitie.i at is therefore satis* factory to learn that all friction between the National Commission and the Local Directory. 'hasoUfiap'peared, and both bodies are in perfect harmony. A new Local Directory baa L l^e^^ele^(^^^^^^aß3kjH^| the Tfca fiwfi^eff"-^' jnfl .' ffil fevilte in excellenii con^jltipn; Aijcoraing] to a very ooiißew4tiye esUmato; by President Gage, in hia ?alediot3ry address to the direittDrsi, »4he Fair has 21,000,000d01s in sight to meet an expenditure. of 17,625,45Jk101g.

Little fear is felt that the New Orleans trouble will cause Italy to refuse to participate in the World's Fair, although there has been much talk to that effect. The chief industrial newspaper of. Milan having mentioned, •> We -'.lire:* glad t%notice that the great meeting unanimously passed a resolution" to the effect that it was absolutely necessary that Italy should take *^>art in the Exposition at Chicago in- '98." The Art and Trades Association at Vienna has declared in favor of the artists and manufacturers of Austria making a ; creditably exhibit at Chicago, and. Jias urged the Government to assist them to do so.

Abraham Monakad, a Syrian residing in Damascus, wants to reproduce at the Fair a pdrtio'il' of "'The Street Called. Straight,!' and the house of Cornelius'/ in'^rhich the Apostle Paul was converted, and to exhibit a dozen of his 'countrymen engaged in embroidermg, , playing and staging national airs, and making and serving coffee in Syrian style.