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chns and James Ninnis, for an Invention for the Preparation of various fibres
No. 3. An Act to authorise the sale or exchange of certain Lands held in Trust for Religious Purposes, vested in the Roman Catholic Bishop, situate in the City of Nelson, and to provide for the vesting of the Proceeds in Trustees upon similar Trusts
No. 4. An Act to authorise the sale of certain Land and Buildings thereon, in the City of Nelson, held in Trust for the use of the Schoolmaster for the time being attached to the school belonging to the people called Wesleyan Methodists, and to provide for the investment of the Proceeds of such sale in the purchase of other lands, and the erection of a Minister's Dwelling House and School House thereon
No. 5. An Act to enable the Governor to grant a Patent to William Acland Douglass Anderson, for an Invention for Improvements in the manufacture of pipes
No. 6. An Act to make Provision for enabling certain persons to make and maintain Waterworks for the supply of the City and neighborhood of Auckland with water
No. 7. An Act to the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland to raise money by way of Debentures on security of the Harbor Endowments of the City and Port of Auckland

having been laid before the Queen, in conformity with the Provisions of the Constitution Act, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to leave the same to their operation.

WILLIAM FOX.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, August 5th, 1861.

THE following Despatches, from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, are published for general information.

WILLIAM FOX.

Downing Street,
20th April, 1861.

SIR,—With reference to my previous Despatches on the same subject, I transmit to you herewith for your information a copy of a notice which has been published in the London Gazette of the 29th ultimo, by Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhibition of 1862, containing the decisions at which they have arrived on points connected with the management of the Exhibition.

I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Gore Browne, C.B.

DECISIONS
OF
HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS
ON POINTS
RELATING TO THE EXHIBITION.
April, 1861.

1. Her Majesty's Commissioners have fixed upon Thursday, the 1st day of May, 1862, for opening the Exhibition.

2. The Exhibition building will be erected on a site adjoining the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, and in the immediate neighborhood of the ground occupied in 1851, on the occasion of the first International Exhibition.

3. The portion of the building to be devoted to the exhibition of Pictures will be erected in brick, and will occupy the entire front towards Cromwell Road; the portion in which Machinery will be exhibited will extend along Prince Albert's Road, on the west side of the gardens.

4. All works of industry to be exhibited should have been produced since 1850. The decision whether goods, proposed to be exhibited, are admissible or not, must, in each case, eventually rest with Her Majesty's Commissioners.

5. Subject to the necessary limitation of space, all persons, whether designers, inventors, manufacturers, or producers of articles, will be allowed to exhibit; but they must state the character in which they do so.

6. Her Majesty's Commissioners will communicate with Foreign and Colonial exhibitors only through the Commission which the Government of each Foreign Country or Colony may appoint for that purpose; and no article will be admitted from any Foreign Country or Colony without the sanction of such Commission.

7. No rent will be charged to exhibitors.

8. Every article produced or obtained by human industry, whether of
   Raw Materials,
   Machinery,
   Manufactures, or
   Fine Arts,
   will be admitted to the Exhibition, with the exception of

9. Living animals and plants.