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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2700, 31 October 1889, Page 2

The San Francisco correspondent of the Post writes as follows :—! do not anticipate a good representation of American industry at, the Dunedin Exhibition. The display at. Melbourne was not creditable, although Congress appropriated money and sent down co'.niiiissioners. There is no appropriation for Dunedin, and coming just on the heels of tho Paris Inhibition, where the I'nited States scores a conspicuons failure, it is not possible to get up any public enthusiasm. And moreover, tho ideaof a universal show, cither at Chicago or Now York, in 18112, has taken possession of tho American people.' They are determined to show what American art and manufactures can do at home, even if they fail to command respect abroad. They perceive that Frenchmen used the foreign exhibits this year at Paris to set off the French exhibits, which monopolise nearly F our-tiiths of the space. This is a shrewd business idea, which Americans hope to turn to their-own advantago in 1892. It operates, however, against any interest being take i in a a side-show at the southern cuj»;tal of Now <Jea]aj^(J.