towards the W. and N. W. by lines being
on an average about 4 chains within the
edge of the bush on the west side of the
Waimatuku River.

In the Oreti Hundred, containing
about 500 acres, bounded on the N. and
W. by lines being on an average about 4
chains within the edge of the Spar Bush;
on the E. by Block No. 1, Oreti Hundred,
and on the South by the road dividing
the aforesaid Hundred from the New
River Hundred.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland,
Dec. 17th, 1866.

THE undermentioned Sections in the
Township of Orepuki will be Sold
by Auction, at the Warden’s Court, Orepuki, on the 1st day of February,
1867, at 12 o’clock, in terms of the provisions
of the "Southland Waste Land Act,
1865."

JNO. P. TAYLOR,
Superintendent.

Sections No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
17, 18, 19, and 20, Block I., and 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, and 20,
Block II., and 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11,
Block III.

Map of the Township of Orepuki
will be open for inspection at the
Survey Department, Invercargill, and the
Warden’s Court, Orepuki, on and after
1st of January, 1867.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1866.

THE following letter, from the Secretary in Melbourne of the Paris
Universal Exhibition to be held in 1867,
is published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Offices of the Royal Commission,
64 Elizabeth-street,
Melbourne, 1st October, 1866.

SIR,--Referring to the subject of the
several Colonies of Australia forming one
Australasian Court at the above exhibition,
which has been already brought under the notice of the authorities in
each Colony, and favorably received :

I have now the honor to submit to
your Excellency, on behalf of the Commissioners
for Victoria, the importance
of taking steps without delay for the purpose of carrying
out the above scheme.

It will be generally admitted that one
of the most important exhibits to be sent
from Australia to Paris will be wool, and
the accompanying sketch will, it is hoped,
indicate in a satisfactory manner the advantages
to be derived from the Colonies
generally agreeing to a plan of union as
here laid down.

By the last outgoing mail a circular
was addressed to the Victorian Commissioners
for the Paris Exhibition, named in the margin,* inviting them to
seek the co-operation in London or Paris
of the representatives of the other
Australian Colonies, for the purpose of
making arrangements to carry out the
proposal so brought forward.

While proposing so to fuse the several
Colonies into one whole, it is by no means
necessary that any interference should
take place with the space allotted to each,
or with the details of exhibition. All
that can be suggested on this side is, that
the several Colonial Commissioners for
Paris should meet at the earliest moment,
and endeavor to agree on some general
base of action, whereby the products of
each Colony should be shown to the best
advantage, while at the same time the
effect of one united and comprehensive
whole, may be thoroughly carried out.

I may point out that the wool from
Victoria was exhibited in the form of a
triumphal arch at the Exhibition of 1862,
and as that mode was greatly admired,
there are no practical difficulties in the
way of carrying out the arrangements of
this staple in the form indicated ; and, as
full details have been forwarded to our
Commissioners in London as to the mode
of construction, it will be only necessary
that each Colony should send, say eight
bales, as its quota for the trophy, while
the separate cost of producing this aggregate
effect will be but trifling.

I shall be happy to supply any farther
information on this subject that you may
require, and would respectfully request
that you might favor our Commissioners
with your views on this matter at your
early convenience. I have, &c.,

J. G. KNIET, Secretary.

To His Excellency Sir George Grey,
K.C.B., &c.

• Mr W. F. De Salis, 38 Cannon Street, London; Mr J. J. Nankivell, Mr Thomas Randall, Mr Thomas Sellar.