INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 122, 24 May 1881, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Monday. John Arch. Elliott has been committed for trial for breaking into Foster's boot factory. Bail of £200 was allowed. Detective Jc-ffery has found tbe missing money letter from the City Council's tender box in an office waste paper basket. It is supposed now to have fallen on the floor in opening the tender box, and to have been swept into tbe basket. Judge Fenton will probably go to Wanganui shortly, Wellington, Monday. His Excellency has received a despatch announcing tbat Sir Francis Dillon Bell, the Agent-General for New ZeaUa], has been created a K CM. G., and that her Majesty has been pleased to confer the Honor of Knighthood upon Hia Honor Chief Justice | Prendergaat, of Wellington. The Industrial Exhibition was opened by His Excellency this afternoon* The exhibits are very numerous. In reply to the address of the President, His Excellency said, " Gentlemen, I am far from thinking any apology necessary for your request that I should be present at the opening of this Exhibition. On tbe contrary, I am grateful to you for the wish that I should take pa ft in the p'roceediugs, and be associated with you In your undertaking, for Such Exhibitions must always in a new and rising country be attended with peculiar interest not attaching to perhaps a more dazzling display of longer established communities. We see in them the first tentative steps taken to ascertain what are indeed the industries for which the locality is really suited, and which will eventually augment in no inconsiderable degree the wealth of the colony, aud give employment to those of its population who are not engaged in agriculture or pastoral occupations. Before this can be effectually done, however, feelers will no doubt be thrown out in many directions without success. This iB inevitable, and it is important to remember that probably no industry can obtain, and that certainly none deserves, success unless able tojeommand it without permanent reliauce on artificial aids. The existence of manufacture which can only be secured by exclusion of all foreign competition with the article produced is a direct injury to tbe people at large, and a questionable benefit to tbe producer himself. Young, however, as New Zealand is, she possesses industries which need fear nothing from external rivalry, and I have it on good authority that her woollen manufactories very closely ' contested with vineyards of Australia for the Imperial prize awarded at the late Melbourne Exhibition for the most successful enterprise of Colonial Industry. Articles here collected will, no doubt, afford material for thought and enquiry, and I trust that this exhibition may. tend to promote the development of the vast resources of the Colony."