THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1890, 11 May 1889, Page 1

THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

Paris, May 7. The Exhibition is fairly advanced towards completion. The British Court is more attractive than those of other European countries. Bir Dillon Bell, in the absence of Sir Polydora de Keyser through illness, welcomed President Carnot in the British Court on behalf of the English Executive Commissioners. Sir Graham Berry, Sir Walter Buller, Mr C. E. N. Braddon, and other colonial delegates were ranged on the right hand side of the Court, the British delegates on the left hand side. Sir Dillon Bell, speaking in the French tongue, offered the best wishes of England and the assurance of her sympathy in the undertaking. President Carnot, warmly shaking hands with Sir Dillon Bell, eulogised the splendid display made by British exhibitors, and said ho thanked England and her colonies most sincerely for their exertions in the endeavor to make the Exhibition d success, and also thanked the British and Colonial delegates for the generous welcome they had given him to the British Court. May 8.

The wool, timber, and mineral exhibits, gent by Victoria and New Zealand, make a very fine show, and the natural history collection and photographs are also much admired. Rowan’s Australian flowers, and the New Zealand An'iraony Company’s ore trophy, are objects of much interest to visitors. London, May 7. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph relates some araosing incidents in connection with the opening of the Paris Exhibition, in which several colonial delegates figured, The French police in one case, thinking that Sir Dillon Bell had no right in the British Court, ordered him to leave, and threatened to expel him from the building. Sir Dillon defied the officers and dared them to touch him, and the police shortly after discovering their mistake, the matter ended. Another Colonial Commissioner who was surprised in the act of changing lug kilts in a room attached to tne British section, tv«s ordered by the police to leave, on the ground that he was undressed. He refused and cried for help, and was ultimately rescued by some Englishmen, who forced the police to retire.