NEW ZEALAND AT THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 86, 10 September 1873, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND AT THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.

(From the Argus) The New Zealand annexe is full and overflowing, and the Government, like that of Victoria, has determined that the colony shall show everything that she has got to show. There is a great display of gold and minerals, the former being alluvial gold, of which there are some twenty-five trays from the various districts in the 'Jhimes field. The photographs here, too, are very beautiful, and form a large series taken by Mundy, and a smaller one of the Thames district, by Mr. Bishop. The water-colors by Mr. Gully are really first-class, and I fancy people here who are used to the Alps, being so near them, are a little surprised to find such magnificient snow mountain and glaciers as we see here. Perhaps the most valuable industry is shown here on a considerable scale—viz., the Pbormium Tenax, which we see in the leaf, in the fibre, in various bales of flax, in string, rope, netting, woolbags, canvas, cloths, damasks, and towellings, giving alto< e her a capital impression of what mty be done wi h waste material by continual hammering at, it. This series is exhibited by Mr. Thorney, of London, the different goods having been manufactured in Scotland at Arbroath and Dundee. There is also a good collection of woods and two or three tables made of these woods, which certainly are remarkably in cabinet work. The moa by the way is coming in propria persona, accompanied by the dinornis, nnd is b ring built, up under Professor Hochstetter’e di ection. His footstep is a'ready here—a east of san istone from Poverty Bay—and a very interesting fossil it is. The food department is rather strong in New Zealand, and there are battalions of meats, hams, cheeses, and a whole cask of beer. The wools, in bulk, are not equal to Victorian, but Messrs. Marcroft and Meyers send a series of samples on card-board, which for fineness and silkiness exceed anything I have over seer. The Maori is well represented in the way of pigeon robes, kaka -dresses, einu coaks, and kauri gum—besides any number of iron ores and auriferous quartzes.