THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5554, 16 January 1879, Page 3

THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

(From the; European Mail). The Exhibition was officially closed on-No-vember 10, and the sudden cessation of the enormous traffic in all the thoroughfares leading to it has given Paris an empty and deserted look, rather startling by its suddenness. The total receipts from Slay 1 up to November 10 have been upwards of half a million sterling, namely, 12,653,744 f. 70c. The total number of visitors was 16,039,725. It is generally understood that the Exhibition will prove anything but a financial success. - Singularly enough, Spain has carried off more medals than Great Britain and her colonies, a fact which is causing a general and lively surprise to people who have been connecting the Spanish name of late rather with : insurrections and unpaid bonds than with industrial triumphs. Spain comes next to France in the number of awards, Great Britain being only third. The Japanese and Chinese are very well content with the rewards that have fallen to them. The best of giving medals to the Japanese is, that their intelligent and progressive Mikado means to confer double rewards on those of his subjects who have distinguished themselves in Paris. At a dinner given to the Foreign. Commissioners by M. Berger, director of the foreign sections, M. Teisserene de Sort spoke of Sir Cunliffe Owen as a past master in the art of vast organisations. Nothing could have been more-true, of the administrative power of Sir Cunliffe. M. de Bort was equally happy in another illustration when he said he hoped they might meet again soon and often, for the world was not so big as people fancied, seeing that it had been; lately enclosed in the Champs de Mars.