THE INTER-PROVINCIAL AND VIENNA EXHIBITION.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1025, 26 November 1872, Page 2

THE INTER-PROVINCIAL AND VIENNA EXHIBITION.

The ' Mail' urging the Nelson public to follow the example set them at Westport, to prepare exhibits for the Christclmrcli exhibition, writes :—" It is uot a question that ought to be left entirely to individual enterprise, but the public should take the matter in hand, and make arrangements to ensure justice being done" to Nelson East at the great colonial show. The first article on the list is wool, and of this Nelson can furnish n« nronf a variety as most of the other provinces, The next is flax, comprising fibre, cold and warm-water dressed, cordage, wool lashing, twine, and all articles manufactured from the fibre. Of this class of goods, the enterprising firm at Richmond, we imagine, can supply as creditable samples as will find, their way to Canterbury from any part of the colony. Every kind of grain and agricultural produce will also be received, but of these three classes, namely, wool, flax, and grain, it may safely be left to the producer or manufacturer to forward his own exhibits. The next class, however, is one that requires something more than individual action to be taken in order to secure a satisfactory representation of the resources of the province, for it consists of "coal, minerals, and ores." It is to these that Nelson has to look for prosperity, if a prosperous condition is ever to be her lot. Erom Collingwood, "Wangapeka, Karamea, and Upper Buller, there are to be obtained, aud that easily, 'samples of mineral productions of almost every description ; and there can be no question whatever that we are all and each of us largely interested in making known to the world what a large and profitable field is open to the capitalist in some, if not all, of these districts. For this reason we would strongly urge upon our leading merchants and tradesmen, aud indeed upon all whoßO individual welfare must be advanced by the prosperity of the Province, the desirability of using some little exertion in the direction of making known what we have to offer to such as are looking for a profitable investment for their surplus capital." Tho rate of interest is falling everywhere, and in tho Australian colonies millions of money are lying comparatively idle. AVe in New Zealand, and in Nelson particularly, on the other hand, are aware of the existence in our midst of hidden treasures, of which, we have every reason to believe, the amount is fabulous, that only require tho judicious application of that money to bring them to light. By publishing this fact far and wide, it is in our power to confer a doublo benefit—on the capitalist who is at a loss to know haw to I

lay out to tho best advantage the funds at his disposal, and upon ourselves who are starving for the want of that capital which in other countries is seeking employment and finding none.