The Tumeka Leader TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1889. DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1977, 3 December 1889, Page 2

The Tumeka Leader TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1889. DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

When the people of Dunedin signified their intention of getting up an exhibition to commemorate the jubilee of the colony, we congratulated them i on the example they thus set the whole colony in self-reliance and enterprise. We have infinite pleasure now in congratulating them on the extraordinary success which has attended their efforts. They have, it appears, opened with great pomp and ceremony the largest and best exhibition ever seen in New Zealand, and it is greatly to their credit that it is altogether due to private enterprise. When the proposal was first mooted the promoters of it never dreamt that it would reach such large proportions. They were very modest then, and thought if they could raise £IO,OOO they would do well, The £IO,OOO was raised, but the encouragement £{jpy had received so far led them to I conclude tjwfi the exhibition would I prove a larger eopcppp tfran tliey had boated and that they wopld pqt f nUw ‘ i ■**= «aoney, so they decided have sufficient hy aaQther to increase the capu«* . » »p| • £5,000, making in all £15,000.

they did, and now they have the satisfaction of having opened the most successful enterprise of the kind New Zealand has yet seen. All honor to the people of Dunedin for their pluck, enterprise, and courage! They deserve the success they have achieved, they have set a good example to the colony, and we sincerely trust that from a monetary point of view they will also gain by it. This exhibition must do a great deal of good; it has given and wil give a great deal of employment; it will cause a great deal of money to flow into the colony; it will cause many from other colonies to visit it and see for themselves the many extraordinary advantages our beautiful country offers, and perhaps in this way we shall get some foreign capitalists to settle in our midst. It is to be regretted that after having shown so much energy, pluck, and enterprise, the Railway Commissioners and the Union Steamship Company are not rendering the amount of assistance to it they could do. They are actually charging higher fares now than they would to a miserable racing meeting, We, of course, have no confidence in the Commissioners; we have frequently enough shown the stupidity of which they are capable. We are not at all surprised at the part they are playing, but we are surprised at the non-interference of the Government. This is a matter in which w« think the Government might legitimately interfere; but, of course, the great object they too. have in view is to make money, so as to have a surplus at the end of the vear.