OPENING OF THE MINING EXHIBITION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2079, 31 July 1890, Page 1

OPENING OF THE MINING EXHIBITION.

London, July 27.

The Mining Exhibition at the,Crystal Palace was opened to-day by Lord Thurlow, His Lordship said that the exhibition, would.le useful since mining .was now regarded as a legitimate form of investment rather than mere speculation. Nothing, bad ever been, seen in the country like the exhibits sent by New Sooth Wales. Mr Pritchard Morgan regretted the paucity of Victorian and Queensland exhibits. Sir Sanl Samuel claimed that the colony,he represented (New South Wales) showed every mineral known to the world. Australia might yet supply England with coal and iron. Sir A. Blyth (South Australia) hoped that this would prove the first of a series of similar exhibitions. He claimed that the Broken Hill district was only geographically part of New Sooth Wales commercially and financially it belonged to; Sooth Australia, which already was the greatest copper producing colony, and sona day would famish the greatest yield of gold. Experiments in England; | showed that the refractory ore problem had been solved. His eolony’s policy was first to exhibit her mineral resources, and then to invite capital to develop: them. Mr, Berwick, responding on behalf of, the, British exhibitors, suggested that the, exhibits should remain as a permanent exhibition in London.