I understand that by this mail an elaborate justification of the condemnations passed upon the arrangements of the New Zealand court at the exhibition has been forwarded for publica tion in one of the New Zealand journals. The writer will, amongst other things, point to the erection of the gold obelisk and to the removal of the New Zealand pictures from the gallery of the Albert Hall to the court as facts sustaining the criticisms he. has made in previous com-' munications. The gold obelisk certainly, how ever useful it may be, is anything but a work of art.
The Marquis of Normanby is in better health and will shortly take a tour in Ireland.
DUNEDIN CENTRAL ELECTION. An Export Trade to India and the East

to the editor. Snt,—My attention has just been directed to your report of Mr Hutchison's speech in the Choral Hall ou Monday night, in which the fol lowing paragraph occurs: "Mr Darling's pro posal for extending the colony's trade, Mr - Hutchison condemned as most illusionary." I have only to state that a day or two after the nomination Mr Hudson came to me to say that if I would retire in Mr Hutchison's favour he (Mr Hutchison) had promised that if elected he would bring the subject before the House and do his best to carry out my views, as he was satisfied the idea was a good one. I at once declined the offer.
