GERMANY'S FLOATING EXHIBITION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 440, 25 January 1890, Page 4

GERMANY'S FLOATING EXHIBITION.

AUCKLAND ONE OF THE PORTS OF CALL. Arrangements for organising Germany’s floating exposition are being completed rapidly. A central bureau lias been established in the vVilhelm strasse, Berlin,.committeemen have been appointed in all the cities o mercantile importance throughout the empire, and circulars full o calculations as to the financial side of the undertaking have been scattered broadcast over the land, The plan of the exposition is to carry all over the world a vast collection of Ger nan manu'aciures in a steamship constructed especially for the purpose. The steamship will be heated by steam, lighted hy electricity, will move at the rate of fifteen knots an hour and will be called the Kaiser Wilhe m. It will have three decks like the best Noith German Lloyd ships. The eight big exposition rooms on the second deck will be divided into compartments to be let at reasonable rates to exhibitors. A compartment 12 x 13 feet will be rented for £IOO per year ; one 10 x by 13 feet for £BO per year. Exhibition cases 6x4 feet will be let for £lO annually ; open room £8 per square yard. Wall room tor placards will cost £7 per square yard annually. Exhibitors may accompany their exhibits on the tour of the world, or send agents at a reasonable extra expense, or may commission the managers of the exposition to close all their business bai gains with foreign buyers. There will b*> also accommodation on the big ship for £IOO first and second cabin passengers. A first cabin passage for the whole voyage of two years will cost £6OO, everything included. A second cabin passage will be £3OO. The ship will contain, besides exposition rooms and staterooms for the exhibition personnel and tourists, cafes, re taurants, smoking and billiard rooms, a concert hall and concert promenade, reading rooms, and three elevators. While the ship is at anchor in a foieign port concerts wdl be given on board by a military band, and the finest Bavarian beers and the best Rhine wines will be served to the visitors, just as if they were in Munich or Bingen. The directors of the exposition expect to have 500 exhibition days in the two years of the voyage, and to receive on the average at least 2,000 visitors per day. The original caoital of the floating exposition will be abo it £210,000. The running expenses for a voyage of two years will be between £140,000 and £160,000. The receipts will be derived from sales of space to exhibitors (estimated at £80,000). passage money of principals, agents, and tourists, commissions on sales of goods, admission feestoexposition . and concerts, profits of restaurants and caffe, and sales of catalogues printed in the language of every city visited during, the voyage. The directors have calculated that

the Kaiser Wilhelm will be not only selfsuppoiting, bub will also net the stockholders a handsome dividend. Should the first voyage prove successful, a second one will be undertaken as soon as the exhibitors shall have had time to replenish their stocks. The fo lowing list of cities at which the Kaiser Wilhelm will stop tor three to ten days each, indicates tne route of tho flouting exposition around ihe wot Id: Cnr atiauia, Gothenburg. Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsingfors, Cronstadt, Riga, Danzig, Bremcrhaven, Amsterdam, Rotterd.im, Antwerp, London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Boston, New York. Pndadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Galveston, Vera Cruz, Havana, Jamaica. Liguayra (Caracas), Bahia, Rio de Jan- irn, Santos, Port Allegre, Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, Valdivia, Valparaiso, Callao i Lima), Guayquil (Quito), Pmama, San F: anci-eo, Yokohama, N igasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore. Batavi <, Adeai le, Melbourne. Sydney, Auckland, Ca cuita, Madras, Colombo, Bombay, Suez, Alexandria, Beirut, Smyrna, Constantinople, Odessa, Salonica, Athens, T'ie-te. Ancona, Malta, Tripoli. Tunis, Palermo, Messina, Naples, Givita-Vecdi a, Genoa, B icelona, Valencia, Malaga. Tangier, Cadiz. Lisbon, Oporto, and Bilbao.—“ New York Sun.”