NEW SOUTH WALES AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4794, 3 August 1876, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

: The. special correspondent of The Colonies,. writing to that journal from" Philadelphia, sa y a : _The exhibition here is certaily a success, and the English are very proud of the creditable display made : by their'children of the southern, western, and northern worlds;.' even old British settlers naturalised ;in the United States "are quite enthusiastic at the success of their brethren who, like them, left, the mother country to stimulate the productiveness of nature in foreign lands, but, unlike them, cling to the old flag, old loyalty,; and old ties, and who are, as" Mr. Disraeli happily remarked, " more English if possible than the English." Great Britain is all but eclipsed in the main building by its colonies,; this letter I can only refer to that building, it having taken all my time in one day to go tlirough it. The colonial exhibitors are very anxious to let their friends at home know, through you, what sort of appearance they, put in at the opening of this enormous rivalry of science, art, mechanism, and agriculture. I can only send you my notes just as-I made them to-day, any revision being rendered impracticable by want of time and the distracting frequency of cracker and other firework explosions under my; window, evidencing American patriotism and very bad gunpowder. New South Wales.—Nothing could be better got up than the cases and exhibits of this colony. The photographic view of Sydney harbor and suburbs, forty feet long, _is the most unusual, and therefore attractive feature in the space of the colony; the other photographs are numerous, but not so good as the Victorian ones ; there are rich collections of coal and almost every mineral specimen ; fruits in great variety, preserved in glass jars ; a handsome pyramid of pure blook tin from Stockton ; a colossal cube, representing the. quantity of gold raised from 1851-74 ; photographs of scenery in Sydney Bay, enlarged from a single plate to five feet by three feet two inches, and yet perfectly clear in outline and detail; preserved meats ad infinitum; elegantly bound books; leather equal to Russian, at any rate in appearance; cloth ; tweeds ; varied specimens of handsome timber; and, lastly, white ropes which make the teeth of yachtsmen water. The colonial .collection of birds, though handsome, is displayed very much the reverse of tastefully.