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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 4th November, 1861.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the
Government has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM DONALD, ESQ.,
to be Registration Officer under the "Provin-
cial Elections Act, 1858," for the Province of
Canterbury.

WILLIAM Fox.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 4th November, 1861.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the
Government has been pleased to ap-
point

Mr. STEPHEN PAIN BROWN
to be Emigration Officer at the Port of
Mongonui.

WILLIAM Fox.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 4th November, 1861.
THE following further Decisions of Her
Majesty's Commissioners on points relating
to the International Exhibition of 1862, are
published for general information.

WILLIAM Fox.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF
WORKS OF INDUSTRY AND ART
TO BE HELD IN LONDON IN 1862.

HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS:

The Earl Granville, K.G., Lord President of the
Council.
The Marquis of Chandos.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
C. Wentworth Dilke, Esq.
Thomas Fairbairn, Esq.
F. R. Sandford, Esq., Secretary.

DECISIONS
OF
HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS

ON POINTS

RELATING TO THE EXHIBITION.
June, 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
   neighbourhood of the ground occupied in 1851.
   on the occasion of the first International
   Exhibition.
3. The portion of the building to be devoted
   to th exhibition of Pictures will be erected in
   brick, and will occupy the entire front towards
   Cromwell Road; the portion in which Ma-
   chinery 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 ex-
   hibited, 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 com-
   municate 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 matarials,
   Machinery,
   Manufactures, or
   Fine Arts,
   will be admitted to the Exhibition, with the
   exception of
   Living animals and plants.
   Fresh vegetable and animal substances,
   liable to spoil by keeping.
   Detonating or dangerous substances.
   Copper Caps, or other Articles of a similar
   nature, may be exhibited, provided the
   detonating powder be not inserted; also Lucifer
   Matches, with imitation tops.
9. Spirits or alcohols, oils, acids, corrosive
   salts, and substances of a highly inflammable
   nature, will only be admitted by special written
   permission, and in well secured glass vessels.
10. The articles exhibited will be divided
    into the following classes.

SECTION I.
Class 1. Mining, Quarrying, Metallurgy, and
Mineral Products.
" 2. Chemical Substances and Products,
and Pharmaceutical Processes.
" 3. Substances used for Food, including
Wines.
" 4. Animal and Vegetable Subtances
used in Manufactures.

SECTION II.
Class 5. Railway Plant, including Locomotive
Engines and Carriages.
" 6. Carriages not connected with Rail
or Tram Roads.
" 7. Manufacturing Machines and Tools.
" 8. Machinery in general.
" 9. Agricultural and Horticultural Ma-
chines and Implements.
" 10. Civil Engineering, Architectural,
and Building Contrivances.
" 11. Military Engineering, Armour and
Accoutrements, Ordnance, and
Small Arms.
" 12. Naval Architecture, Ship's Tackle.
" 13. Philosophical Instruments and Pro-
cesses depending upon their use.
" 14. Photographic Apparatus and Pho-
tography.