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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Signature of Exhibitor,
Address,
To the Secretary of the Intercolonial Exhibition,
64, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne.

REGULATIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF INTENDING
EXHIBITORS.

An Exhibition of the Products, Manufactures, and
Arts of New South Wales, South Australia, Queens-
land, Western Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and
Victoria, will be held in Melbourne in 1866. The
Exhibition will open not earlier than the month of
August, and will remain open for not less than two
months.

The Commissioners will be prepared to receive
articles intended for exhibition from the 1st to the
21st of July inclusive.

In order to give the Commissioners the opportunity
of making adequate arrangements, forms of appli-
cation for space should be sent in without delay, and
in no case will applications be received later than the
17th June, 1866.

Intending exhibitors are requested to give a full
description of their goods on the form on the other
side, and particularly to describe all points of novelty
or originality in the objects exhibited.

Exhibitors must state whether they are the de-
signers, inventors, manufacturers, or producers of the
articles they propose to exhibit.

The Commissioners reserve to themselves the right
to receive for exhibition only, and not for competition
(if space admit), any object not the produce of the
above-mentioned Colonies, which may be considered
to possess especial merit.

The Commissioners decline to receive any article
they may think unsuitable to the Exhibition, or
objects of an inflammatory, offensive, perishable, or
dangerous character.

Counters and wall space will be provided.

All goods and articles for exhibition must be
delivered at the building at the charge and risk of the
exhibitor.

Articles and packages will be unloaded at the
building.

Should the exhibitors or their agents not be pre-
sent, the packages will be opened by the officers of
the Exhibition, and the contents distributed with
care, but at the risk of the exhibitor.

Tickets will be issued to every exhibitor, his agent,
or servant, to enable him to pass into the building
between certain hours to arrange the articles for
exhibition. These tickets must be produced on
entrance, and given up when required.

Exhibitors may employ assistants to keep in order
the articles they exhibit, or to explain them to
visitors, after obtaining written permission from the
Commissioners to that effect.

Free admission, within limits to be fixed by the
Commissioners, will be given to exhibitors or their
agents.

Effectual means will be taken, through the agency
of the police and otherwise, to guard against fire,
and protect the property in the Exhibition; but the
Commissioners will not be responsible for losses by
fire, robbery, accident, or damage of any kind.

Medals or certificates of merit will be awarded in
the different classes.

Prices may be affixed to the articles exhibited.

Articles of great size or weight, the placing of
which will require considerable labor, must be sent
on or before the 14th of June; and persons wishing
to exhibit machinery or other objects that will require
foundations, must make a declaration to that effect
in their application for space.

Any exhibitor whose goods can properly be placed
together will be at liberty to arrange such goods in
his own way, provided his arrangement is compatible
with the general scheme of the Exhibition, and the
convenience of other exhibitors.

Exhibitors may not remove their goods or substi-
tute others for them during the period the Exhibition
shall remain open without leave from the Commis-
sioners.

The Commissioners will reserve space (if early
application is made) for the exhibition of processes
of manufactures in certain handicrafts which can be
carried on without danger or inconvenience in the
premises.

Steam and water-power will be supplied for show-
ing machinery in motion. Exhibitors must make
all necessary mechanical connexions at their own
expense.

Packing cases must be removed at the cost of the
exhibitors so soon as the goods are taken charge of
by the Commissioners.

Exhibitors will be permitted, subject only to the
necessary general regulations, to erect, according to
their own taste, all counters, stands, glass frames,
brackets, awnings, hangings, or other similar con-
trivances, which they may consider best calculated
for the display of their goods.

Packages and all articles intended for exhibition
should be addressed as follows:—

To the Commissioners for the
Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866,
Melbourne.

From [state exhibitor's name and colony].

Free transit of goods for exhibition which may be
forwarded by Victorian Railways will be allowed by
the Government.

Any further information required can be obtained
from

J. G. KNIGHT, F.R.I.B.A.,
Office of the Royal Commission,
64, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne.
Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1866.

THE following Report by Captain Gibson, Port
Officer at Lyttelton, on the Wanganui and
Okarita Rivers, is published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Hokitika, 7th December, 1865.

SIR,—I have the honor to submit to you the result
of my personal inspection of the Wanganui and
Okarita Rivers, and I am now enabled to furnish
you with such information as was wanting to com-
plete the report I forwarded to you upon this portion
of the coast in May last.

The entrance of the River Wanganui, which is at
the present time very narrow, is unsafe for a vessel
of any description to attempt. The South Spit over-
laps its mouth, and runs for a considerable distance
to the northward, where, the coast being rock-bound,
should a vessel become stranded in endeavouring to
take the bar, she would doubtless instantly break up.

All the headlands between this and the Okarita
should be approached with great caution in fine
weather, as the rocks apparently run a considerable
distance out to seaward.

The lagoon commonly known as the Okarita is
situate about thirty miles to the southward of the
Wanganui. The coast line for six miles to the north
is a low sandy bank covered with coarse grass and
flax; whereas about half a mile to the southward)
the entrance there is a high rocky headland, from