THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. DISTINGUISHED GUESTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 414, 26 October 1889, Page 5

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. DISTINGUISHED GUESTS.

Dunedin", October 23. To-day's li?l of accepted guests at the Exbition includes : Sir John Hay, President of the Legislative Council ot New South Wales ; Mr Fra&er, Under Secretary of Justice ; Sir Patiick Jennings and nine mombers of the Legislative ; Postmaster General O'Connor, representing the Ministry. From Victoria there are nine additional mem bore of the Legislature and one from South Australia. New South Wales will have separate trophies of wool, wine, and coal. With reference to the Now South Wales mineral courD, Mr Carte says it will occupy a space exceeding ten thousand square feet, and be moat comprehensive and thoroughly illustrative of the mineral wealth of New .South Wales. The piiucipal auriierous mines in the colony will bo represented. Many of the samples of fjold will be in bulk, among them being specimens from Adelong, ' Baker's Creek, Fairrield (New England),' and there will be a geneial collection gathered from the various goldfields, including a large block from Mother Shipton claim. There will be 50 samples of alluvial gold from various alluvial claims. There will be seveial nuggets, one of them a Maitland bar containing 1320z of gold. The display of silver ore will be large and varied. There will be a collection Irom /ill the difierent lodes in the colony, and, there will be bulk samples from the following localities : From Broken Hill Mine, Umerumker, The Terrible Dick, Gipoy Gil, Now Year, and Christmas Eve Claims in the Barrier Kange district ; from White Hock, Pyes Creek, Webbs Consuls and Rh'ertrec in the New England district; from the Sunny Corner, Lewis Pond and Wi&oman's Creek in Bafchursfc district ; from Mount Costigen, Cordillera, and Cordillera Hill in Turon district; from Vanderbilt and Commodore in the Amolongongow district. There will be a collection of gems and diamond iferous gravels from the diamond fields: of New .South Wales. The tin resources will be represented by bulk exhibits fiorn the Ottcry lode and Torrington in New England district and by a general collection fiom the same district, and by bulk exhibits from Emiowie, Mount Euiiowie, Enriowie We?t, Lady, Don, Jubilee, Thi-tle, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan Extended, and Victory lodes in the Barrier Kange tinfield. There will be two bulk trophies of metallic copper with ores ab the base, and bulk copper ores from Cobar ; nymagee, burrac'aaud gumbel from JSew England and the Batricr Range. Bulk exhibits will be made of auriferous an'imony from Eleanora gold and antimony mine, Hill Grove ; and there will be antimony from Carangula (the Clay River), oxide of antimony from Ford's Cieek, near Geelong, and other specimens ol bistruth. There will be a general collection from King's Gate near ulen Innes, and from Molong. The bulk of the exhibits will be made of iron from the Fitzroy iron minos near Miltagong from Blayney, Singleton and Port Stephens, and a general collection of iron ores with chroma iron from Nundle An exhibit of mangane c from Beudmere i 3 to be made. A large ' coal trophy representing the particulars of j the various mines at work and of the seam 1 ; worked in the noithern, south in, and western coal fields. There will be full sections of seams worked at the Greta, Newcastle, Wallsend, Bin wood, Herton, Weroliyr and Voting WsilJgend mines in the north, and at the Centennial coal and coke mines, Black Jack, Curlew?, Now England. From wcslern fields theie will be a full section from Zig-zag Colliery, and from the southern tielda a full section from Mount; Kombia and other mine?. Of petroleum oil, canel coal, or kerosene shale, i theie will be a lull section of a seam worked at the New South Wales Shale and Oil Company's mino at Hartley ; bulk exhibit fioni Noith's mine at Karoomba, and splendid exhibit of shale and products, including oils, lubricats, para tii ne soups with benzine and naphtha, fiom Australian Keros-eno Oil and Mineral Company, Joadga Cieek, near Mibtagong. The miscellaneous exhibits will include a large collection of cubes ot the different vaiictics of Sydney sand- j stone and of the Hunter River sand- i fetone, maiblo slabs from Caw Hat, Maralan and the Moombie range, and a general collection of small specimens of polished seipentine from Bingera, granibo and c-yenite fiom vaiious parts; asbesto<?, wolfram, schelhlo, magnasibe, gypsum, anci large collection oi loss?i!s Irom the piincipa' sedimentary formations ,in Now South Wales, including \ery interesting discoveries recently made of lish remains and extincb marsuuiaU. The collection of geological and mining maps will complete the mineralogy exhibits, but the Department ot Mines will also chow a collection of timbers of Now South Wale;=, embracing 135 feet. The sections will be thiee feet long, cut from the centio of the trees with bark on either side. There will also be a collection of engraving woods, specimens of turnoiy, barks, fibre, seeds, gums, and resins. There will bo an extensive collection from the Technological Museum of Sydney, and it is the intention of the- proprietois of the .Sydney "Morning Hetald" to fit up a court.