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and perfect an illustration as possible, a selec-
tion of the works to be exhibited will be indis-
pensable.

119. The selection of Exhibitors, the space
     and number of works to be allowed to each,
     and the arrangement of them will be entrusted
     to Committees to be nominated by Her
     Majesty’s Commissioners.

120. In the case of living artists, Her
     Majesty’s Commissioners would desire to con-
     sult the wishes of the artists themselves as to
     the particular works by which they would
     prefer to be represented. The selection of
     works so made by the artists will not neces-
     sarily be binding upon Her Majesty’s Com-
     missioners, but in no case will any work by a
     living artist be exhibited against his wish, if
     expressed in writing, and delivered to the
     Commissioners on or before the 31st of
     March, 1862.

121. Her Majesty’s Commissioners will
     avail themselves of the following eight Art
     Institutions of this country in communicating
     with artists who are members of those Institu-
     tions, viz. —

The Royal Academy,
The Royal Scottish Academy,
The Royal Hibernian Academy,
The Society of Painters in Water Colours,
The Society of British Artists,
The New Society of Painters in Water
Colours,
The Institute of British Artists,
The Institute of British Architects.

122. Intending Exhibitors in the British
     Division of Section IV., who are not members
     of any of the preceding Institutions, may at
     once receive Forms of Demand for Space, by
     applying to the Secretary to Her Majesty’s
     Commissioners. These Forms must be filled
     up and returned before the 1st of June 1861.
     By Order,

F. R. SANDFORD,
Secretary,
Offices of Her Majesty’s Commissioners,
454, West Strand, London, W.C.

PROCLAMATION.

By JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province
of Auckland, in the Colony of
New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed in
the eighth year of the reign of Her
Majesty Queen Victoria, by the Governor of
New Zealand, with the advice and consent of
the then Legislative Council thereof, intituled
“An Ordinance to empower owners and oc-
cupiers of land within certain Districts to
repair and maintain Highways and Public
Works within the same, and to make and
levy rates for defraying the expenses thereof,”
it was enacted that if the major part of the
persons qualified to become electors, in the
manner in the said Ordinance mentioned
within any District, should apply in writing
to His Excellency the Governor, distinctly
setting forth the boundaries of such District,
and requesting that the same might be de-
clared to be a District within the provisions
of the said Ordinance, His Excellency might
by Proclamation declare the same to be such
District, and by such Proclamation should
prescribe a period within which all claims to
the right of voting at the election of the first
and every succeeding Board of Commissioners
for such District should be made. And
whereas by an Act passed by the Superinten-
dent of the Province of Auckland, with the
advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof, intituled “An Act to transfer certain
powers and duties from the Governor and Co-
lonial Treasurer of New Zealand to the Super-
intendent and the Provincial Treasurer of the
Province of Auckland respectively,” it was
amongst other things enacted that all the acts
and powers given to the said Governor
by the said recited Ordinance should thence-
forth cease to be performed by the said Go-
vernor, and should and might thereafter be
performed and exercised as fully and effec-
tually for all intents and purposes within the
Province of Auckland by the Superintendent
thereof as the same could before the passing
of the said Act be done and exercised by the
said Governor: And whereas the major part
of the persons entitled to become Electors
within the District hereinafter set forth have
applied to me in manner in the said Ordinance
directed, to declare the same to be a District
within the provisions of the said Ordinance:
Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said
powers and authorities in me vested, I, the
said Superintendent, do hereby proclaim and
declare that all those lands comprised within
and known as lots Nos. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 36,
37, 38, 39, 57, 58, and 62 in the Parish
of Papakura; also lots Nos. 95 and 96
in the Parish of Manurewa; also all that
portion of the block of land, known as
Clendon’s Grant, lying on the North East
side of the Great South Road, and between
the road which forms the South-east boundary
of the said Grant, and a line fifty chains
North-west from and parallel to the said road,
also all roads, bounding or lying between any
of the said lots, (the Great South Road
excepted) shall form a District within
the provisions of the said Ordinance, to be
called the Papakura Valley District, and that
the period within which all claims to the right
of voting at the election of the first Board of
Commissioners for such District shall be made,
shall be between the first and thirty-first days
of December, 1861, and for every succeeding
Board of Commissioners such claims shall
be made between the first and thirty-first days
of October in each and every year.

Given under my hand at Auckland,
this eighteenth day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

TENDERS.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 18th November, 1861.

TENDERS will be received at this office
until noon of Friday, the 13th day of
December next, for furnishing the Provincial