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RURAL SECTIONS AT POTUTU (WAIROA.)

J. C. LAMBTON CARTER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office, Napier,
May 8, 1866.

Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, May 8, 1866.

THE following Extract from the New Zealand Government Gazette, No. 22, 1866, in reference to the Intercolonial Exhibition to be held at Melbourne, is republished for general information.

DONALD McLEAN,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1866.

The following letter with its enclosures, from Sir Redmond Barry, respecting the proposed International Exhibition to be held at Melbourne, is published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Offices of the Royal Commission,
64 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne,
5th February, 1866.

Sir,

I do myself the honor to transmit to your Excellency several papers bearing upon matters connected with the contemplated Intercolonial Exhibition to be held in Melbourne in this year, and beg leave to call your attention to them with the hope that you will be pleased to induce the members of your Government to take active steps in furtherance of the objects to which they relate, and to favor the Commission appointed in Victoria with the assistance so necessary to the success of the undertaking.

METEOROLOGICAL TABLES.

2. The meteorological tables should be filled in with observations taken at the different Government stations; tables compiled by private observers, and any special observations of an interesting character relating to prevailing winds, hurricanes, cyclones, droughts, floods, earthquakes, tidal waves, currents, electric and magnetic effects, would also be acceptable.

LANGUAGE.

3. The papers relating to the subject of Language explain themselves. It is not necessary that they should be distributed in New Zealand, as the language of the Natives has been thoroughly mastered by the Europeans. They are forwarded in order that you may be informed of the steps being taken to accomplish what, if carried out as desired, must prove interesting to philologists. Your own distinguished labours in this direction, to which I may be permitted to allude, lead me to trust that you will favor the Commission with your assistance, and allow them to hope that they may expect to receive an ample collection of papers printed by the direction of Parliament, or prepared under the authority of the Government of New Zealand, relating to the history, laws, customs and language of the Aborigines, together with any works of acknowledged repute on any of those subjects published in the country. To these might be added weapons, implements, and other objects, which illustrate the manufacturing capabilities of the Natives.

WINE.

4. The form relative to wine was drawn after consultation with experienced wine growers, wine makers, and wine merchants, and the mode of testing the relative qualities of the different vintages was found to act well in practice. In districts where the cultivation of the vine has been undertaken recently, or is conducted partially, it is particularly important to ascertain the nature and quality of wine grown. The adaptation of the kind of grape to the variety of soil may be thus tested, and the conditions being known under which grapes of the like sort produce fruit when planted in similar or different soils, in countries in Europe or elsewhere having corresponding climate, inferences may be drawn useful to all connected with this branch of industry.

CORN.

5. Information of the same kind might be supplied, with regard to the cultivation of corn.