THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. A Burst-up in the Management.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 115, 15 August 1885, Page 5

THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. A Burst-up in the Management.

Wellington, August 12, As I prognosticated the, Exhibition is proing a fiasco, and even the local papers' now predict that it will be a financial failure, owing to the large number of free tickets that have been distributed amongst the favoured classes without stint. It *is | asserted that the free tickets are passed round, and so, though occasionally there is a large attendance, the proceeds are miserably small, £24, and such like sums for an .evening — not" , the takings of a second-rate nigger show. It is whispered that there has been 'a Big burst up about the management. • The i story goes that in consequerice of a.letter in the " Post " on Monday calling attention to the want of fire exits 1 , the Government caused a carpenter to be sent to 'construct the exits without consulting Dr. Hector, who has been " bossing " the B>o,w' generally; Dr. Hector not liking this interference,' threw up the management of the affair in disgust. Yesterday afterndon ha'di been fixed for an organ recital by Mr G ' Nevillo Barnett, of Auckland, but owing 1 to the noise made by the carpenters constructing the exits, it did not eventuate. It is said that on Mr Barnett expostulating with the men, he was told to go to a locality with' a temperature the heat of which ia > con: eidered to be tolerably high.' Such is the management of yo<ir first', New Zealand Industrial Exhibition. ' . ' ,

Thus a nasty, old- want to know why it is that when a J>aby is clean, and nicely draped it 'wonft icpme, to ; (.but. when it is covered, with, taffy and byead and butter it insists upon .pl'imbiDg «^,over i me? ' •"-'-•• *

i"l • Stanley in / AMea. f Mr H. Ms* Stanley's Congo Expedition; on November ffitd; ,1883, had reached 'a point 1,266 miles from the sea, and 921 milesfrom he6poldville. ''Proceeding onward tilVihe 27th, they 'came upon terrible signs' of devastation I—Villages'1 — Villages ' burnt,' inhabitants fled—and the- slave hunting Arabs of tfyahgwe were overtaken. ' For eleven: months the band had been raiding 1 success-! fully between the Congo and the Lubiranzi,| bn the lef o batik. They had uader taken to perform the Bame cruel work between v the Big'erre ' and ' Wane->kirundu. * ' The slave traders admitted they had only 2,300 captives in their camp, yet they have raided through the length and breadth of a country than Ireland, bearing fire and spreading carnage with lead andiron. Both banks of the river showed that 118 villages and 43 districts had been devastated, out of which was only educed the scant profit of 2,300 females and children; and about 2,000 tusks of ivory. The spears, swords, bows, and the quivers 7 of arrows, showed that many adults had fallen. "To obtain the 2,30 U slaves out of the 118 villages, they must have shot a round number of 2,500 people, while 1,300 more died by the wayside, through scant provisions and the intensity of their hopeless wretchedness. How men are wounded arid die in the forest, or droop to death through an overwhelming sense of ' their calamities, we do not know, but if the above figures are trustworthy, then the outcome from the territory, with its million of souls, is 5,000 slaves, obtained at the cruel expense of 33,000 lives.