REPORT ON COLONIAL EXHIBITS London, March 17.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 196, 26 March 1887, Page 5

REPORT ON COLONIAL EXHIBITS London, March 17.

The following reports have been made on colonial exhibits at the recent Exhibition. Mr Foster, a mineral exoert, is of opinion that Near South Wales has the finest collection of coal, and the best mining model. Mr T. N. Laslett, a timber expert, reports that New South Wales and Victoria possess hard and heavy woods, suitable for enpineeiing and architect's work, and also had a fair quantity of timber, which would make good furniture. He considers South Australia and Queensland to have but little timber suitable for export. Of the timbers of Western Australia, jar rah, karri, and tuart are the most likely to be largely required for constructive purposes. He mentions kauri, puriri, rata, ritnu, and totara as the best of New Zealand woods, Messrs Sewell and Read, meat experts, say that the colonial tinned meats are of excellent quality, and the frozen meat is everything to be desired. All the New Zaaland and a few of the Australian sheep show equal to the English sheep The exhibits of the Sydney Meat Preserving Company and Messrs Walsh and Elliott are highly praised. Mr A. Baker, grain expert, considers the progress of agriculture in Victoria remarkable, and the cereals displayed are of a very fine quality. He regretted that the South Australian cereals \vere so poorly represented. New Zealand grains, he reports, are of the finest quality, The Chevalier barley brings enormous prices. Messrs Anderson, machinery experts, report that Beard and Sessons, Victorian atripperp, and Stott and Sons' South Australian stump plough and cultivators are novelties in England. Foster, the mineral expert, considers the returns from the Band and Albion Consols mines, Ballarat, and Mount Morgan mine, truly pheQomenal.