Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 5th August, 1861.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to nominate

JOHN MORRISON, Esq.,
of 3, Adelaide Place, King William-street, London,

as Agent to communicate on behalf of New Zealand with Her Majesty’s Commissioners in connection with the International Exhibition proposed to be held in London in 1862.

WILLIAM FOX.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 5th August, 1861.

THE following Despatches from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, are published for general information.

WILLIAM FOX.

Downing-street,
20th April, 1861.

Sir,—With reference to my previous Despatches on the same subject, I transmit to you herewith for your information a copy of a notice which has been published in the London Gazette of the 29th ultimo, by Her Majesty’s Commissioners for the International Exhibition of 1862, containing the decisions to which they have arrived on points connected with the management of the Exhibition.

I have, &c.,

Newcastle.

Governor Gore Browne, C.B.

DECISIONS

OF

HER MAJESTY’S COMMISSIONERS

RELATING TO THE EXHIBITION.

April, 1861.

1. Her Majesty’s Commissioners have fixed upon Thursday, the 1st day of May, 1862, for opening the Exhibition.

2. The Exhibition building will be erected on a site adjoining the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the ground occupied in 1851, on the occasion of the first International Exhibition.

3. The portion of the building to be devoted to the exhibition of Pictures will be erected in brick, and will occupy the entire front towards Cromwell Road; the portion in which Machinery will be exhibited will extend along Prince Albert’s Road, on the west side of the gardens.

4. All works of industry to be exhibited should have been produced since 1850. The decision whether goods, proposed to be exhibited, are admissible or not, must, in each case, eventually rest with Her Majesty’s Commissioners.

5. Subject to the necessary limitation of space, all persons, whether designers, inventors, manufacturers, or producers of articles, will be allowed to exhibit; but they must state the characteristics which they do so.

6. Her Majesty’s Commissioners will communicate with Foreign and Colonial exhibitors only through the Commission which the Government of each Foreign country or Colony may appoint for that purpose; and no article will be admitted from any Foreign country or Colony without the sanction of such Commission.

7. No rent will be charged to exhibitors.

8. Every article produced or obtained by human industry, whether of

Raw materials,
Machinery,
Manufactures, or
Fine Arts,

will be admitted to the Exhibition, with the exception of,

1. Living animals and plants.
2. Fresh vegetable and animal substances, liable to spoil by keeping.
3. Detonating or dangerous substances.

Copper caps, or other articles of a similar nature, may be exhibited, provided the detonating powder be not inserted; also Lucifer matches with imitation tops.

9. Spirits or alcoholic, ether, caustic, corrosive salts, and substances of a highly inflammable nature, will only be admitted by special written permission, and in well-sealed glass vessels.

10. The articles exhibited will be divided into the following Classes:—

SECTION I.

Class 1. Mining, Quarrying, Metallurgy, and Mineral products.

2. Chemical substances and products, and Pharmaceutical processes.

3. Substances used for Food, including Wines.

4. Animal and Vegetable substances used in Manufactures.

SECTION II.

5. Railway Plant, including Locomotive engines and carriages.

6. Carriages not connected with rail or Tram roads.

7. Manufacturing Machines and Tools.

8. Machinery in general.

9. Agricultural and Horticultural Machines and implements.

10. Civil Engineering, Architectural, and Building contrivances.

11. Military Engineering, Armour and Accoutrements, Ordnance, and Small Arms.

12. Naval Architecture, Ship’s Tackle.

13. Philosophical Instruments and Processes depending on their use.

14. Photographic apparatus and Photography.

15. Philosophical instruments.

16. Musical instruments.

17. Surgical instruments and appliances.

SECTION III.

18. Cotton

19. Flax and Hemp

20. Silk and Velvets

21. Woollen and Worsted, including Mixed Fabrics generally