The British Guiana Exhibition of 1882. 
By the Editor 
N various occasions local Exhibitions have been 
held in Guiana, chiefly at times when the colony, 
'having been invited to compete at some one of 
the great international Exhibitions, French, American or 
English, it was desired to gather together the products 
of the colony, that a proper selection from these might be 
made and forwarded to the greater show. On the last of 
these occasions, in 1877, it occurred to the Government 
that by organizing a series of Exhibitions for more purely 
local purposes, opportunities would be afforded for sti- 
mulating production in the colony in more various di- 
rections than has been the case throughout the 
many years during which attention has been solely, or 
almost solely, devoted to advancing the sugar industry of 
this colony. The result was the organization of a series 
of biennial Exhibitions, the first of which was held in 
1879, while the second has but just closed. It is pro- 
posed here to note some facts in connection with the 
most recent of these Exhibitions, and chiefly to note how 
far there are indications that the intended purpose of 
encouraging production, not only of sugar, but also of all 
other native forms of industry, and thus of assisting the 
very heterogeneous inhabitants of this land, is being 
attained. 
But before turning to this main purpose of these 
notes, it may be as well to record that, even in connec- 
