Jan. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 7

but all such arms and ammunition shall be entered at the Customs (without payment of duty), and reported by the President of the Municipal Council to the Consuls of the three Treaty Powers:"

Now, therefore, any British subject who shall do or who shall counsel, aid, abet, encourage, or procure any other person to do any act contrary to the aforesaid provisions of section 1 of Article VII. of the Final Act of the Conference on Samoan Affairs, signed at Berlin on the 14th June, 1889, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to punishment as follows:—

(1.) Imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding ten pounds; or

(2.) A fine alone not exceeding ten pounds without any imprisonment.

2. From and after the coming into force of this regulation, Regulation No. 1 of 1884, “To prohibit the Supply of Arms and Ammunition and Explosive Substances to Natives of the Western Pacific Islands,” shall cease to apply to the islands of Samoa.

3. This regulation may be cited as “The Samoan Arms Regulation, 1891,” and shall come into force on the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

By command.

WILFRED COLLET,
Secretary to the High Commissioner.

Special Order made by the Puketapu Road Board, County of Hawke’s Bay.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1892.

THE following special order, made by the Puketapu Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT this Board proposes to borrow from the New Zealand Government, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” and “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” the sum of £200 for the purpose of constructing the Hukunui Road; and that a special rate of one-fortieth of a penny in the pound is hereby levied on all rateable property in the Western Ward of the Puketapu Road District as security for such loan; such special rate to be an annual-recurring rate for twenty-six years, payable in one sum on the 1st day of February in each year.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly passed by this Board, strictly in accordance with the provisions of section 75 of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and section 21 of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886;” and that the petition presented to the Board is signed by three-fourths of the ratepayers on the roll, representing more than one-half of the total valuation.

JOHN BENNETT,
Chairman, Puketapu Road Board.

Newstead, 31st December, 1891.

World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago.—Regulations.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 5th January, 1892.

THE following general regulations for exhibitors, and circular issued by the Treasury at Washington governing the free importation of articles for exhibition, at the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, in the year 1893, are published for general information.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR FOREIGN EXHIBITORS.

1. THE Exhibition will be held on the shore of Lake Michigan, in the City of Chicago, and will be opened on the 1st May, 1893, and closed on the 30th October following.

2. All Governments have been invited to appoint Commissions for the purpose of organizing their departments of the Exhibition. The Director-General should be notified of the appointment of such foreign Commissions as soon as the appointment is made.

Diagrams of the buildings and grounds will be furnished to the foreign Commissions on or before the 1st January, 1892, indicating the localities to be occupied by each nation, subject, however, to revision and readjustment.

3. Applications for space and negotiations relative thereto must be conducted with the Commission of the country where the article is produced.

4. Foreign Commissions are requested to notify the Director-General not later than the 1st June, 1892, whether they desire any increase or diminution of the space offered them, and the amount.

5. Before the 1st November, 1892, the foreign Commissions must furnish the Director-General with approximate plans showing the manner of allotting the space assigned to them, and also with lists of their exhibitors and other information necessary for the preparation of the official catalogue.

Products brought into the United States at the ports of Portland, Maine, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Tampa, New Orleans, San Francisco, Wilmington, Portland, Oregon, Port Townsend (Washington), Seattle (Washington), Tacoma (Washington), and Chicago (Illinois), or at any other port of entry intended for display at the International Exhibition, will be allowed to go forward to the Exhibition buildings, under proper supervision of Customs officers, without examination at such ports of original entry, and at the close of the Exhibition will be allowed to go forward to the port from which they are to be exported. No duties will be levied upon such goods, unless entered for consumption in the United States.

6. The transportation, receiving, unpacking, and arranging of the products for exhibition will be at the expense of the exhibitor.

7. The installation of heavy articles requiring special foundations or adjustment should, by special arrangement, begin as soon as the progress of the work upon the buildings will permit. The general reception of articles at the Exhibition buildings will commence on the 1st November, 1892, and no articles will be admitted after the 10th April, 1893.

8. Space assigned to foreign Commissions and not occupied on the 10th April, 1893, will revert to the Director-General for re-assignment.

9. If products are intended for competition, it must be so stated by the exhibitor; if not, they will be excluded from the examination by the international juries.

10. An official catalogue will be published in English, French, German, and Spanish. The sale of catalogues is reserved to the World’s Columbian Exposition.

The twelve departments of the classification which will determine the relative location of articles in the Exhibition—except in such collective exhibits as may receive special sanction—also the arrangement of names in the catalogue, are as follows:—

A. Agriculture, Forest Products, Forestry, Machinery and Appliances.

B. Viticulture, Horticulture, Floriculture.

C. Live Stock: Domestic and Wild Animals.

D. Fish, Fisheries, Fish Products, and Apparatus for Fishing.

E. Mines, Mining, and Metallurgy.

F. Machinery.

G. Transportation: Railways, Vessels, Vehicles.

H. Manufactures.

J. Electricity.

K. Fine Arts: Pictorial, Plastic, and Decorative.

L. Liberal Arts: Education, Engineering, Public Works, Architecture, Music, and the Drama.

M. Ethnology, Archæology, Progress of Labour and Invention, Isolated and Collective Exhibits.

11. Foreign Commissions may publish catalogues of their respective sections.

12. Exhibitors will not be charged for space.

A limited quantity of steam- and water-power will be supplied gratuitously. The quantity of each will be settled definitely at the time of the allotment of space. Any power required by the exhibitor in excess of that allowed will be furnished by the World’s Columbian Exposition at a fixed price. Demands for such excess of power must also be settled at the time of the allotment of space.

13. Exhibitors must provide at their own cost all showcases, shelving, counters, fittings, &c., which they may require, and all countershafts, with their pulleys, belting, &c., for the transmission of power from the main shafts in the building where the exhibit is located. All arrangements of articles and decorations must be in conformity with the general plan adopted by the Director-General.

The World’s Columbian Exposition will take precautions for the safe preservation of all objects in the Exhibition; but it will in no way be responsible for damage or loss of any kind, or for accidents by fire or otherwise, however originating.

14. Favourable facilities will be arranged by which exhibitors or foreign Commissions may insure their own goods.

Foreign Commissions may employ watchmen of their own choice to guard their goods during the hours the Exhibition is open to the public, subject to the rules and regulations of the Exposition.

15. Foreign Commissions, or such agents as they may designate, shall be responsible for the receiving, unpacking, and arrangement of objects, as well as for the removal at the close of the Exposition; but no person shall be permitted to act as such agent until he can give to the Director-General written evidence of his having been approved by the proper Commission.

16. Each package must be addressed “To the Commission