THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 651

Representation of Peasant Jewellery.

1. Her Majesty's Commissioners have announced in the General Rules, that a representation of
   all kinds of Jewellery will be included in the Programme for the International Exhibition of Selected
   Works in 1872.

2. It has been explained that Jewellery embraces all kinds of ornament worn for personal decora-
   tion, except Watches, which will be exhibited in 1875.

3. Besides Jewellery of a costly kind, Her Majesty's Commissioners desire to obtain the most
   complete and perfect collection of all kinds characteristic to the country in which it is produced, and
   especially that used by the peasantry.

4. Such Jewellery should have a direct connection with the native instinctive art, which has been
   handed down by long tradition. Thus Italy, Spain, Hungary, &c., may be instanced as each having a
   native Jewellery, worn more or less by all classes, which to this time remains uncomtaminated by the
   introduction of foreign forms based on the fashion of the day. Throughout India ancient types are
   preserved, but the Delhi Jewellery of the Upper Provinces most commonly offered for sale to the better
   classes of Europeans is simply an inferior imitation of Parisian or European designs. Photographs of
   Delhi Jewellery of purely native character, as distinguished from the former, which will serve to
   illustrate the Classes of traditional ornament that Her Majesty's Commissioners desire to have repre-
   sented, have been prepared, and may be obtained on applicaton to the Secretary.

5. Collections of Peasant Jewellery have been made for the South Kensington Museum. Those
   from Italy are numerous and of all varieties, and owe their design to the peculiar instincts of thousands
   of years, preserved in different localities.

6. To have a complete representation of International personal ornament it will be necessary to
   collect specimens at least of various objects from all parts of the world. Such an exhaustive series will
   be of great interest, and be appreciated by the Public Museums of the United Kingdom as well as by
   the public at large. It is therefore hoped that all countries will voluntarily contribute collections of
   this nature; but Her Majesty's Commissioners will be prepared to consider the purchase of specimens
   from such localities as are not likely to undertake their own representation officially, provided that an
   estimate is first sent to the Commissioners, and a definite amount authorized by them. In collecting
   such specimens it is necessary that characteristic designs should, however, be of much greater con-
   sideration than intrinsic value, and that the price be very moderate.

HENRY Y. D. ScorT, Colonel, R.E.,
Secretary.

Office of Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851,
Kensington Gore, 8th August, 1871.

Memorandum on Paper, Stationery, and Printing.

ALTHOUGH the direct object of Her Majesty's Commissioners in exhibiting Collections of Paper
Stationery, and Printing, in 1872, is to show the progress which the most civilized nations have made in
these arts, the Commissioners wish to include a series of specimens illustrating the present condition
of these arts in other countries, and they feel that it would be of interest and much utility to procure
collections from all parts of the world, to illustrate the most primitive kinds of printing, the applications
of different materials, and the modes of working them into paper.

In Cashmere, for instance, a paper is made from silk; in Java a kind is made from bamboo pulp;
in Canton some is made from rice; and in India varieties are made from plantain and hemp; whilst
both in India and China papier-mâché is turned to all kinds of uses.

Her Majesty's Commissioners hope, therefore, that all varieties and modes of printing may be
represented, and that collections of paper made from every kind of fibre will be sent to the International
Exhibition of 1872 by foreign countries; but Her Majesty's Commissioners will be prepared to consider
the purchase of specimens from such localities as are not likely to undertake their own representation,
provided that an estimate is first sent to the Commissioners, and a definite amount authorized
by them.

HENRY Y. D. Scorr, Colonel, R.E.,
Secretary.

Office of Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851,
Kensington Gore, 8th August, 1871.

Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Earl of KIMBERLEY to Governor Sir G. F. BOWEN,
G.C.M.G.

(Circular.)

SIR,— I transmit to you copy of a letter from the India Office relative to a suggestion made by the
Lieutenant-Governor of British Honduras, that a continued interchange should take place of the
valuable vegetable productions of the British Colonies and Possessions.

It appears that such a system of exchange is already practised in India, and it may be worthy of
your consideration, whether it might not with advantage be set on foot among the various Colonial
Governments, one with another, and each with the Indian authorities.

The enclosed memorandum from the Superintendent of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Calcutta
may be of use in the preparation and packing of seeds.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.