FINE ART GALLERIES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 979, 5 December 1890, Page 32

FINE ART GALLERIES.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, November 27 At a meeting of the City Council to-night l the Mayor, Mr Upton, announce! that arrangements had been made with the Mackelvio trustees to deposit the Maokelvie gift of pictures, etc., in the Auckland Art Gallery until a suitable building can be erected for their reception as required by the conditions of the trust. The bulk of these pictures and articles of vertu are 1 stored in 27 cases in Brown, Campbell and Co.’s warehouse, in Auckland, and the collection is valued at nearly £IO,OOO. Auckland, November 30. The Maokelvie gift, for whose exhibition in the Auckland Art Gallery arrangements have been made between the Trustees and the City Council, includes pictures to the I number of 132, books, bronzes, enamels, mosaics, jade rook; crystals, stone, glass, china, Wedgwood, and other ware, carved wood and ivory bonbonnieres, snuff boxes, &c. , watohes, clocks, minerals, coins, decorations, medallions, &c., arms and armour, porcelain and Faience from Hyeres, and miscellaneous articles. Some of the piotures have been on exhibition in the Musenm in order to comply with the termß of Mr Mackelvie’s will. It is necessary that a separate bailding should be provided for the collection, and it is now suggested that this' j should be built adjoining the present Art Gallery, where the gift will remain until the new building is complete. It is proposed that the Mayor of Auckland should be appointed one of the Trustees of the gift in place of the President of the Bank of New Zealand, as the headquarters of the latter institution are now in London. During a disoussion regarding Mr Mackelvie’B gift, the Mayor (Mr Upton) said that the legacies left by Mr Maokelvie to persons in England with reversions to the Auckland City Council were of suoh value that in all probability there would eventually be a dam o! £30,000 to endow the Art Gallery. Dunedin, November 27. The public art gailery was opened to-day by the Mayor, in the presence of about 100 citizens. The pictures bought from the Exhibition gallery and those left for sale, which have been lent together with the Ait j Society’s collections, made a very good show.