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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

at Vienna. It will be opened on the 1st of May,
and closed on the 31st of October, 1873.
The following is the classification adopted for the
objects exhibited :—
Group 1. Mining, Quarrying, and Metallurgy.
" 2. Agriculture, Horticulture, and Forestry.
" 3. Chemical Industry.
" 4. Articles of Food used as Products of
Industry.
" 5. Textile Industry and Clothing.
" 6. Leather and India-rubber Industry.
" 7. Metal Industry.
" 8. Wood Industry.
" 9. Stone, Earthenware, and Glass Industry.
" 10. Small Ware and Fancy Goods.
" 11. Paper Industry and Stationery.
" 12. Graphic Arts and Industrial Drawing.
" 13. Machinery and Means of Transport.
" 14. Philosophical Instruments, Surgical In-
struments.
" 15. Musical Instruments.
" 16. The Art of War.
This group includes all objects and
contrivances belonging to the equip-
ment of the army, and the relief of
the sick and wounded.
" 17. The Navy.
This group comprehends everything
relating to the navigation on the sea,
on lakes and rivers, shipbuilding, the
fitting out of ships, the construction of
harbours and lighthouses, lifeboats, and
salvage.
" 18. Civil Engineering, Public Works, and
Architecture.
" 19. The Private Dwelling-house, its inner
arrangement and decoration.
" 20. The Farm-house, its arrangements, fur-
niture, and utensils.
In these two groups it is expected
that the different nations will exhibit
their peculiar forms and actual con-
ditions of domestic life.
" 21. National Domestic Industry.
" 22. Representation of the Influence of
Museums of Fine Arts applied to
Industry.
" 23. Art applied to Religion.
" 24. Objects of Fine Art of the Past, ex-
hibited by Amateurs and Owners of
Collections.
" 25. Fine Arts of the Present Time.
" 26. Education, Teaching, and Instruction.
There will be competitive trials of machinery,
apparatus, processes and methods of work of different
dates, showing their successive improvements: for
example, sewing machines, weaving machines, tele-
graphy, photography, &c. An attempt will thus be
made to give an epitome of the history of inventions.
In addition to this, an attempt will be made to place
side by side the productions of machines and hand-
work, and to show how in some cases machines have
superseded handwork, while in others they have
aided and increased its products.
By exhibiting also analogous products of industry,
manufactured at different epochs, with their relative
prices and with samples and models, it is intended to
show the growing power of different industries, their
dependence on the changes in taste, and their
influence upon taste, as well as their importance in
national economy at different epochs, thus exhibiting
the history of industry.
To show by a retrospective view the influence of
science on the progress and development of manufac-
tures, there will be exhibited the gradual conversion
of waste into use, or the increase in the employment
of the former, by comparing the waste with the
articles manufactured therefrom, and also the inter-
mediate products, so far as these are the result of
inventions and discoveries since the first Interna-
tional Exhibition of London in 1851.
A further aim in this Exhibition is to give the
history of prices; to exhibit from the chief districts
of production the prices of more important articles,
going as far back as possible, and placed side by side
in average periods of five years, and illustrated by
samples and specimens.
To show the international exchange of products, a
representation of the commerce and trade of the
world will be formed. For this purpose samples and
specimens of the articles of trade and commerce of
all the important harbours and seaports are to be
exhibited.
On each sample will be marked its origin, its
destination, its price and value, the quantity of
import and export, &c.; along with these will be
shown statistical and graphic tables, the movement
of the navigation and commerce of each seaport
during the last ten years.
The intention just expressed of aiding the study of
this Exhibition by the help of statistical and graphical
tables, will be carried into effect in all the depart-
ments of the Exhibition, by showing the industrial
progress made by each country since the first Inter-
national Exhibition of London in 1851, from official
records. For example, there will be exhibited tables
of the increasing areas of cultivated soil, the annual
quantities of agricultural products, the value of the
land, the interest on money, the traffic and capital. of
railways, the increase of population, &c., as they have
appeared at each of the periods of subsequent Inter-
national Exhibitions, viz. : Paris, 1855; London,
1862; Paris, 1867.
Thus, there will be shown the productive powers
of different nations in the respective departments
assigned to their products in the Exhibition building.
On the other hand, all particulars of the different
articles to be exhibited, such as the name of the
exhibitor, the description of the objects, the price
(which the exhibitor is at liberty to attach if he
please) may be shown on labels attached to each
article.
In the same manner, all other informations of
public interest the exhibitor may wish to have pub-
lished, such as the history and importance of the
establishment, its progressive development, its annual
production, may also be written or printed and an-
nexed to the objects exhibited: in contradistinction
to former International Exhibitions, which confined
these informations to the printed catalogue.
For the purpose of rendering this Exhibition
especially instructive and educational, it is intended
to make comparative trials and experiments on pro-
cesses new or hitherto little known. The value of
objects exhibited will be submitted to practical tests.
For example, experiments will be made regarding
the production of wines (application of the Hydro-
Extractor, heating of wines, &c.), trials with machine-
tools of every description, application of the electric-
light, utilizing of aërostation (captive balloons, &c.),
experiments with explosive materials, with steam-
ploughs, transmission of power by wire-ropes, locomo-
tives, engines on common roads, steam fire-engines, &c.
Lectures will be given on these subjects in a
special lecture-room of the Exhibition, and inter-
national prize problems issued; as, for example, on
the best implements for the cultivation of beet-roots
for the fabrication of sugar.
Arrangements will be made for a series of temporary
International Exhibitions of such articles which, by
their nature, do not admit of an exposition of long
duration. They will comprise: