REGULATIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF INTENDING EXHIBITORS.

An Exhibition of the Products, Manufactures, and Arts of New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Victoria, will be held in Melbourne in 1866. The Exhibition will open not earlier than the month of August, and will remain open for not less than two months.

The Commissioners will be prepared to receive articles intended for exhibition from the 1st to the 21st of July inclusive.

In order to give the Commissioners the opportunity of making adequate arrangements, forms of application for space should be sent in without delay, and in no case will applications be received later than the 17th June, 1866.

Intending exhibitors are requested to give a full description of their goods on the form on the other side, and particularly to describe all points of novelty or originality in the object exhibited.

Exhibitors must state whether they are the designers, inventors, manufacturers, or producers of the articles they propose to exhibit.

The Commissioners reserve to themselves the right to receive for exhibition only, and not for competition (if space admit), any object not the produce of the above-mentioned colonies, which may be considered to possess especial merit.

The Commissioners decline to receive any article they may think unsuitable to the Exhibition, or objects of an inflammatory, offensive, perishable, or dangerous character.

Counters and wall space will be provided.

All goods and articles for exhibition must be delivered at the building, at the charge and risk of the exhibitor.

Articles and packages will be unloaded at the building.

Should the exhibitors or their agents not be present, the packages will be opened by the officers of the Exhibition, and the contents distributed with care, but at the risk of the exhibitor.

Tickets will be issued to every exhibitor, his agent, or servant, to enable him to pass into the building between certain hours, to arrange the articles for exhibition. These tickets must be produced on entrance, and given up when required.

Exhibitors may employ assistants to keep in order the articles they exhibit, or to explain them to visitors, after obtaining written permission from the Commissioners to that effect.

Free admission, within limits to be fixed by the Commissioners, will be given to exhibitors or their agents.

Effectual means will be taken, through the agency of the police and otherwise, to guard against fire and protect the property in the Exhibition, but the Commissioners will not be responsible for losses by fire, robbery, accident, or damage of any kind.

Medals or certificates of merit will be awarded in the different classes.

Prices may be affixed to the article exhibited.

Articles of great size or weight, the placing of which will require considerable labor, must be sent in on or before the 14th of June; and persons wishing to exhibit machinery or other objects that will require foundations, must make a declaration to that effect in their application for space.

Any exhibitor whose goods can properly be placed together will be at liberty to arrange such goods in his own way, provided his arrangement is compatible with the general scheme of the Exhibition, and the convenience of other exhibitors.

Exhibitors may not remove their goods or substitute others for them during the period the Exhibition shall remain open without leave from the Commissioners.

The Commissioners will reserve space if early application is made for the exhibition of processes of manufactures in certain handicrafts, which can be carried on without danger or inconvenience in the premises.

Steam and water-power will be supplied for showing machinery in motion. Exhibitors must make all necessary mechanical connections at their own expense.

Packing cases must be removed at the cost of the exhibitor as soon as the goods are taken charge of by the Commissioners.