Omaha daily bee., 1892-08-07
NEW SOUTH Wales, EXHIBIT.
Premier Dibbs Thinks the Fair Director

Premier Dibbs Thinks the Fair Directors
Have Been Unfair.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Sir George Dlbbs, the
premier Of New South Wales, arrived here
today, and he does not feel kindly toward
the management Of the Worlds fair. Ac-
| cordingly the exhibit OF New South Wales,
which is about the only English colony that
intends to exhibit, promises to be failure,
and this is what he says:
New South Wales was almost the only
colony that intended to exhibit Our exhibi-
tion will now be oce-fourth of what 1t would
have been IL the Chicago managers had
dealt with us rs we had been promised.
They sent an agent by what authority do
not know, who promised everything we
might desire in the way of space and accom-
modations. After we had committed ourselves
and spent about 100000. they told us that
tho agent was acting without authority and
that we could not have space at all adequate
to our wants The result will be that 1t will
practically ruin our EXHIBIT. Our ex hibit
will be largely in raw materials. The trou-
bio Is that they are like American raw ma
terials ana will make no particular showing
separated.
I'VE wanted to make our exhibit en- bloc.
10 classify it will only be to weaken it. We
wanted collective exhibit, but the fair ar
rangements do not allow of focusing. and
without that cannot SEQ what advantage
there is in the colony's exhibiting. If our
woods have to be in one place. our gold in
another, our silver and woods scattered about
among various buildings, the advantage to
us of such display becomes very doubtful.
VI am sure that IL we had learned AT first
what we have since learned, we would not
have exhibited at all. The trouble is we
have gone too far to back out now. AS 1t is,
our exhibit will be a failure to a large extent.
do not think the COLONY will ever exhibit
again. My vote ana influence shall always
be against it, at least or course we did not
expect to rival America and other old coun-
tries. AS have SAID our exhibit would
have been chiefly in raw materials, but 1t
would have had an element of novelty that
would have made it interesting TO even
Americans. AS it is, it Will be a miserable
failure.
bitter throughout England They have an
idea that the fair is not being managed with
the usual intelligence that Americans bring
TO bear on such big enterprises.
Our most interesting exhibit will probably
be in wool, merino WOODS. There has been a
great deal of talk as to whether they should
be admitted duty free. Well, we don't care
whether they are or not. You have got to
have our fine class wool to mix with your
coarse WOODS. 1t makes no difference
whether you get them direct or go to Lonuon
for them. IL is wonder to me that the in
tellieence of the people Of America cannot
see that
Heretofore Americans have had it all
their own way in our markets. But we are
going to take a leaf out of your books. We
will manufacture our own wooden nutmegs
hereafter. We have discovered that wnen a
country reaches a certain size, it must manu-
facture, grow and produce for itself.
81 leave tonight for Montreal, then go to
Ottawa. The Canadian government is
making an effort for a more extended trade
between Canada and the colonles.n
When asked whether he would visit
Chicago, Sir George announced vcry em-
phaticaly that he would not. AT the con-
clusion of his mission in Canada, Sir George
will leave for Sidney, sailing from San Fran
cisco on the 18th instant.