THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 781

Living animals (horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs,
cats, fowls, game, fish, &c.);
Poultry, venison, butcher's meat, pork, &c.;
Dairy produce; milk, cheese, &c.;
Vegetable produce; fresh fruits, fresh vegetables,
flowers, plants, &c.;
Living plants injurious to agriculture and
forestry.

Dynamometric experiments will be made on the
tractive force of animals. Also international races
at the time of the Exhibition of thoroughbred horses
will take place, and for these races prizes will be
awarded.

Representations of all other kinds of sports (re-
gattas, &c.), and also national games and plays will
be arranged.

Some of these temporary Exhibitions will give rise
to practical experiments and practical discussions on
the matters to which they refer. For example, the
Exhibition of Dairy Produce will give rise to a series
of experiments on the improvements in manufacturing
cheese, &c.

To enable the public to appreciate alimentary
substances exhibited, refreshment rooms (tasting
pavilions) will be erected, where each exhibitor can
sell samples of his products, even in the shape of
cooked food.

During the Exhibition various international con-
gresses and conferences will be arranged for discus-
sing important matters, to which either the Exhibi-
tion itself may give rise, or specially selected as
subjects of international discussion.

More especially there will be international con-
gresses of men of science, teachers and artists,
physicians, directors of museums of fine art applied
to industry, teachers of drawing, architects, engineers,
representatives of chambers of commerce, economists
acquainted with the questions relative to banking
and insurance, of agriculturists, foresters, mining
engineers, &c.

Among questions subject to such discussion will
be the following:--

The question of intellectual property, of the
improvement of public taste, of the promotion and
diffusion of arts of design, on economy of transport,
on obtaining the highest efficiency of machines, on
the extension and development of forest statics, on
reducing the price of food, whether by increased
production, better organization of markets, reformed
cookery, or new methods of preserving food; on the
nourishment and early rearing of an infant, on early
healthful training and gymnastics, on the exertions
of our time in regard to the curing of deformed
children, on the education of woman and improve-
ment of her social condition.

The division of space allotted to each foreign com-
mission will be geographical, that is to say, according
to countries, in such a manner that the different
territories of production shall appear as nearly as
possible in the same order, as they are situated
naturally in the direction from west to east.

With reference to such objects, which admit of a
classification in several of the groups specified in
Paragraph II., it is left at the option of the exhibitor
to name the group in which he wishes his articles to
be placed.

An International Jury will be appointed to award
the prizes. Each exhibitor must declare whether he
wishes or not to submit to the judgment of the jury.
If not, the object exhibited will be ticketed "Hors
concours" (Not for competition).

The awards granted by the Jury will be as
follows:--

1. For the Fine Arts the prize will be given in the
   form of a Medal for Fine Arts.

2. For the other objects exhibited the prizes will
   be as follows:--

(a.) Exhibitors in former universal exhibitions
will receive for the progress they have made
since the last exhibition a Medal for Progress.

(b.) Exhibitors for the first time taking part in
an Universal Exhibition, will receive as reward
for the merit they have shown in a national,
economical, or technical point of view, the
Medal for Merit.

(c.) Exhibitors, whose productions fulfil all the
conditions of refined taste in colour or in form,
will have the Medal for Taste.

(d). There will also be given Diplomas of Merit,
similar to the honourable mentions of former
universal exhibitions.

3. The assistants and workmen who, according
   to the statements made by the exhibitors, have taken
   a notable part in the production of a rewarded object
   shall have the Medal for Co-operation.

4. The merits of individuals or corporations who
   have promoted the education of the people, the de-
   velopment of industry, or the national economy, or
   have specially promoted the intellectual, moral, and
   material welfare of the working classes, shall be
   rewarded by special Diplomas of Honour.

The detailed arrangements for the organization of
the Exhibition, the composition and operations of the
Juries, the system of the catalogues, reports, &c.,
will be the object of general and special rules.

No. 2.

Mr. Maskell to the Colonial Secretary.

Christchurch, 9th October, 1872.

I am directed by the Committee of the Inter-
provincial and Vienna Exhibition to forward to you
a copy of the advertised list of quantities and varie-
ties of articles which they have fixed as the amounts
required for Exhibition, and to request that the same
may be published in the Colonial Government
Gazette for the information of the public.

I have, &c.,

W. M. MASKELL,
Secretary.

EXHIBITION OF COLONIAL PRODUCE,
1872-73.

It has been announced that an International Exhibi-
tion will take place in Vienna in the course of 1873.
The Colonial Government are desirous that an Exhi-
bition of New Zealand Produce and Manufactures
should be held at Christchurch, commencing on
December 15, 1872, and that from the articles therein
shown, should be selected the best in the different
classes for transmission to Vienna, in order that the
Colony may be well and properly represented at the
latter place.

At a Meeting held in Christchurch on September
25, a General Committee were appointed, who formed
in their turn Sub-Committees, to superintend and
arrange the exhibits of the various classes of
Produce.

The following lists of quantities and varieties of
articles required have been drawn up by the Sub-
Committees, and they accordingly invite Manufac-
turers and others to send in to them for exhibition
the various Specimens and Samples they may desire
to show.

The Exhibition will be opened on December 16,
but articles should be sent in to the Committee by
December 1, in order to insure proper arrangement
and classification.

All goods will be transmitted free of cost.