Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-09
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
[From the SENrISEL's Correspondent

EDITORS SENTINEL: Continuing in
Australia and the other British Colon
les, we now come to Queensland. We
were very much pleased with the dis.
play of Queensland, which, for ar
rangement and completeness, equals
that of any country in the whole oxhi-
bition. The inclosure is small, and the
goods are compactly arranged, so that
. glance will reveal just what the col
ony produces, and what it is like. The
most important products are gold, tin,
anthony, copper, and other minerals;
cotton, wool, sugar, hemp, timber and
cereals. The gold interest is repre-
scented by a tall shaft of wood, covered
with gliding, representing the amount
of gold exported from Queensland be.
tween the years. 1868 and 1875, which
was Is tons, IL hundred weight, Al
pounds and six ounces; in value $685.
DOC, 900. There is a huge pile OF block
tin, and the other metals and minerals
are well represented, and there are also
specimens OF different soils. The col
lection of woods SURPRISES any other
on the grounds. All the other pro
duets are exhibited, hut we cannot stop
to mention any more. There is one
feature that adds very much to the
value of the display. viz: About two
hundred pictures hung around the
walls of the Enclosure, portraying land
scapes and rural scenes, the different
kinds Of land (the value of each, p r
acre, being printed under the picture),
cities, bays. rivers, railroads, mines and
mining, and, in fact, showing just what
kind ct a country it is, what it looks
like, and what the people are like, al
most as well as would a journey to
Australia; and they are not merely
photographs, but regular paintings,
and the color, etc., of objects being
shown; everything is just Us it looks
naturally. Altogether we would pro
nonnce this one of the best displays in
the exhibition.
South Australia is busily at work
getting ready. and we were not allowed
to 90 in; but they could not prevent
our looking in. and we saw, in part at
least, what they have. Gold quartz,
wool and silk seem to be their chief
products; and we saw stuffed birds
aud skins of some large birds. As
everything is not unpacked, and we
could not get near nUugh to some of the
things that are, we cannot give South
Australia a more extended notice.
Next is New South Wales, which has
a large and varied display. Nearly
half OF its space, and it is pretty large.
is taken up with mining, and of the
mining interests. the most important
is, of course. that of gold. Like
Queensland, New South Wales has a
large pillar representing the amount of
gold produced lin this CASEY from 1851
to 1874, the tota. of which was $685.
232, 59S ounce, and the value Sl67. 949,-
355. There are also samples of differ
ent kinds CT gold characteristic of the
gold fields, and Of auriferous quartz
and sand. Tin seems to be an import
ant metal, and is on exhibition both in
its natural and refined state. Copper
and iron are also important. The coal
interest makes = fine show, and sends
\ great many large blocks of coal.
One of these is from a seam ten feet
and nine inches thick in the western
coal fields. There are a good many
other minerals on exhibition. The
leather business Is very large in New
South Wales, and we'll represented.
Wool and wooden goods take up a very
large space. Cereals and wines are
the most prominent among the agri-
cultural products. There is a pano-
ramic view of Sydney harbor, and a
number OF other views of Sydney and
other places. There is a very nice col
lection of birds.
New Zealand has a small space, but
great variety in its display. It's gold
column is much larger than that Of
Queensland, though not so large as
that of New South Wales, being y feet
5 inches in height, and Az feet square.
1t represents the amoun q exported from
1862 to 1878, which is 8,025,676 ounces
or 246 tons Of % carat gold. The value
OF this ia 1851. 27l ,293. At least these
are the figures we copied down, al.
though those Of New Zealand and
New South Wales do not bear com
parison very we'll. This column has
also a novel arrangement. being divid-
ed up into sections, representing the
export of each year; 1862 is small, 1863
Ia larger; 1864, larger still, and from
TINT there Is q gradual decrease. ex-
cept In the cas- of the year 1871, In
which the exports were larger than in
the years Immediately preceding and
1t. There are also samples
of gold.
New Zealand has also iron, coal, ne.
troleum. ard other mineral products.
Wool is here a very important inter-
est, as Is also leather.
The most important vegetable pro-
ducts are cereals, fax, and vegetable
gums.
Cloth Is manufactured in New Zea-
land, and a lot of cloths have under
them, Orders for these goods received
per Frisco mail" A very considera-
Bile space IL devoted to garments and
Of the Maori. the aborigi-
nal Inhabitants of New Zealand. The
garments are nearly all adorned with
feathers. Some of the implements of
the Maori very much resemble those
Of the aboriginal inhabitants of this
country.
In the New Zealand department is a
skeleton, and also an egg. of the great
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