THE FORTHCOMING AMERICAN EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4513, 7 September 1875, Page 2

THE FORTHCOMING AMERICAN EXHIBITION.

Sin,—As this colony will doub loss use its best endeavors to exhibit a fair sample of its abundant wealth in the abovo exhibition, it next becomes an obvious question to consider the best means to securo such prominence to our exhibits as will confor a lasting boneflt on the colony. Then again, the gentlemen who are now making active preparations on behalf of the colony, and especially Wellington, I hope will boar in mind that practically collateral benefits ought to be the chief aim of a young colony like New Zealand, possessed as It is of a plethora of latent inexhaustible riches, yet in many instances debarred from utilization, through dear labor and want of such ingenious machinery as the Americans thomsolvos can only produce. It then having como to my knowledge that a practical and worthy citisen of Wellington, in the person of Mr. William Black, of the American coach factory, intends to pay a visit to his native land, and to the Exhibition, next yoar, I then think that the services of such a practical gentleman ought by all moans to be eagerly eccured on behalf of Wellington. I do not recommend this courso without a reason, it being that I have known Mr. Black for the last twenty years in the colonies, and

without any flattery can testify to his mechanical skill as being of a very high order, and intelligence being inseparable, I simply take it for granted that no better man could be found to examine and faithfully report on the various labor-saving machinery that could be successfully introduced and applied to various industries not yet even in existence here but on which nevertheless our future greatness much depends. An old colonist, who worked and raised himself with such indomitable perseverance as Mr. Black is well worthy of the honor I have indicated, and it would give the best proof to our American cousins that we as colonists can appreciate the merits and virtues of their countrymen when they cast their lot amongst us, and that, irrespective of creeds and countries, we are after all but one people, bound up in one great work—the colonisation of New Zealand. Having no other motive at heart but the public good, I leave my suggestion in the hands of the parties having power to act on them.—l am, &c, Pro Bono Publico. Upper Hutt, August 31.