OPENING OF THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1504, 11 May 1886, Page 2

OPENING OF THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION.

London, May 4. At the opening ceremony £J«r Ma jeaty the Queen was very quietly dresses in black, and thirteen of her children an grandchildren were present. Her Majest; was immensely pleased at the receptio: accorded, and termed the exhibition, magnificent one. In the opening ode ; passage occurred eulogising the federa ide i. Mer Majesty specially noticed Ih group of Hindoos and aboriginals in thei several courts. Lord Augustus Lofto was not present, being confined to hi house through indisposition. The marke and wine bars for the sale of colonial pro duce and wines are a great attraction and the Adelaide fruit, which is beinj sold there, has realised good prices Portraits of the Soudan contingent, an< views of Sydney are greatly admired Sir P. C. Owen, on behalf of the Prioci of Wales, specially thank d Messr Bosisto and Thompson, Sir Saiuue Devenport, Mr Scott, Sir F. D, Bell, D: Yon Haast, Sir Alexander Stuart, anc Messrs Bunny and ‘Garrick, as aideni workers. Several Royalties have privately visited the exhibition. The Timei comments on the absence of Mr W. E E. Gladstone from the opening of tin exhibition. May 6. The Prince and Princess of Wales;-ac companied by Sir P. C. Owen, visited the Exhibition to-day. Wellington, May 7. The following telegram has been re< ceived by Government from Sir P. C, Owen, dated May 4th “ The Prince ol Wales this day inspected the New Zealand section. He was received by Sir Dillon Bell, Dr Yon Haast, and Dr Bailer. He examined with much interest and in detail the various sections of the exhibition, aod expressed his great satisfaction at the hearty co-operation ol the Government of New Zealand, and the completeness of the arrangements.”

On Wednesday His Excellency the Governor received from His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales a cablegram giving in detail the addresses delivered by Her Majesty the Queen, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and also tiio Ode on the opening of the exhibition, by Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate. His Excellency forwarded a suitable reply. The followtug is THE QUEEN’S SPEECH. I r-ceive with the greatest sitisfuctioa the address which you have presented to me on the opening of this exliibtiou. I have observed with a warm and increasing interest the progress of your proceedings in the execution of the duties* eu*

trusted to you by the Royal Commission, and it affords me sincere gratification to witness the result of yeur judicious and unremitting exertions—the magnificent exhibition which has been gathered together here to-day. lam deeply moved by your reference to the circumstances in which the ceremony of 1851 took place, and I heartily concur in the belief that you bare expressed that the Prince Consort, my beloved husband, had he been spared, would have witnessed with , intense interest the devolopmentof hisidea, and would, 1 may add, have seen with pleasure bis son taking the lead in the movement of which he was the originator; and I cordially concur with you in the prayer that this undertaking may be the means of imparling a stimulus to the commercial interest and intercourse of all parts - of my dominions by encouraging the art ** of peace and industry, and by strengthening the bonds of unity which now exist In every portion of my empire.