OUR MINERAL DISPLAY AT MELBOURNE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 291, 18 August 1888, Page 5

OUR MINERAL DISPLAY AT MELBOURNE.

Wellington, August 16. By bhe kindness of tbo Colonial Secretary, I have been permitted to publish the i\ 1 lowing letter received by him yesterday from Sir Jas. Hector, Chairman of the New Zealand Commission at the Centennial Exhibition :—: —

Melbourne, August, Bth, 1888. Stk, — With i-efaicnco to your cablegram of yesterday (to which I .sent the following : — " Repon, emanated Irom speculator here. Mineials not yet fully displayed. Will have complete representation minerals. Opinion very favourable. Letter ported "), I beg to explain further that the report about the minoial exhibits emanated trom the author ot the enclosed advertisement (dealing with the Coromandel goldfields), who is endeavouring to geb up a syndicate ior the pnrpobo of some Now Zealand mines, lie is di-playing a number of veiy rich specimens in the window of a shop in Collins - street, which puiport to come horn New Zealand, and he wished to show them in the Now Zealand Couit, bub the application .scorned to me so irregular that 1 asked ior fiulher infoi nuition, and piobabJy tins may have annoyed him and led to his tclcgiaplnng. The lepresenbation of mineial.s fiom New Zeal.nd will consist of the mineials evhibited by the ..Minos Department and (Geological Survey Department at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition in London, and which have been letinncd lieic. Also a fresh collection of minerals made by the Geological Depa.itniont, and a colled ion by tv only-two pri\ale exhibitoie. Owing to the pressure of woi k and Iniftle abteuding the general pic[)aiation of tiic court, it was impots ible befoie the ojen ng day to place on i heir stands more th< n the bulk exhibits- -coal, coke, and Hie principal oics-. These have attiactcd a'tention and favourable icmaik. The ainngenient of the smallei seiie-. ot niineuih, with complete information as to then modes oi occuircncc, composition, value, etc., being -\\oik that 'cquiies gioat caic in detail, i-> now in hand, and when completed, the whole collection will be supeuor to that shown t .b anypie\ious vxliibition. U, .should bo remcmbeied that some oi the (Joints have had a special stall pit paring their mineral exhibits, and have iemo\ed collections fiom cMbtmg muteunis in eomplere condition — case? included — without requiring any fuithei ai ranging or work, apioceduie wliich was impossible in the cnc>e of New Zealand exhibits. At the same timo, I should state that theie has been hardly any response to the circular, which was issued caily in the year, inviting the attention of thcvaiious mining districts to the importance or having the mineral i'Cr-ouicc-5 piopcih represented. — 1 have, etc., J Wii s llu'tor. The Colonial Sccretaiy, Wellington, Executivt. Commissioner.