Notes from the World's Fair.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 15 December 1891, Page 3

Notes from the World's Fair.

— - +. Sir Walter Buller who owns the finest collection of native Maori curiosities and paintings in the world, h«ug applied for space in which to display his collection, and intends visiting the Exposition with his family. Maj. John Wilson, of Auckland, has submitted a proposition to the Foreign Affairs Com. mittee to bri.ig a colony of Maories to the Exposition, house them in one of their native-built forts, and let them show their native costumes, home life, and methods of warfare. The proposition is regarded' with some favor, as it would add greatly to the value of the general ethnolo gical exhibit of the Exposition. Van Houten & Zoon, the manufacturers of cocoa at Weesp, Holland have set apart $100,000 with which io make a splendid exhibit at the Exposition in Chicago in 3898. They intend to erect a largo building in the style of old Holland architecture of the fifteenth century, and to put in it, besides an exhibit in their own line of business, paintings, views, bric-a-brac, etc., illustrative of the Netherlands and the life and characteristics of the Dutch people. They will have there a " poooa school," where ' Dutch maidens, clad in picturesque native afctire, will make delicious cocoa beverages according to the most approved methods, and will serve it to visitors. A company has applied for space to erect a building in the form of an iceberg in which to make a polar exhibit. A group of Esquimaux, with reindeers, furs and all the paraphernalia of inhabitants of the polar regions, will be installed in the building if the concession is granted. ► C. W. Wynkoop has been sent out by a London syndicate to find the gold mines in the biblical lands of Ophir, where King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba got their riches. He will report to Chief Skiff the result of hia investigations, and promises to furnish some interesting matter for the mines and mining department,