NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION. 1865.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 784, 18 June 1864, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION. 1865.

"Itis a noble thing to test by actual experiment to what extent the ingenuity and skill of the nations of the earth have corresponded to the intentions of th<ar Creator, and to improve the advantages which each country can offer the other, in supplying the wants and adding to the happiness of mankind."—Sir Robert Peel.

The advantages which Industrial Exhibitions have conferred upon the cemmerce of the world since they were first instituted a century ago are well acknowledged. In Great Britain, Prance, the United States, and other countries, whatever their political condition, *o highly have such Exhibitions been esteemed, that ail Governments, however otherwise hostile, have agreed in encouraging and supporting them. National at first, they occasioned a generous emulation amongst individuals; and afterwards, when international amongst peoples. Affording a worthy theatre for the display of the enormous resources which a bountiful Providence has provided and human enterprise collected from all parts of the earth, they have increased production and thereby added to the world's wealth. They have afforded also a most valuable because more ocact knowledge of man's resources, they have encouraged manufactures and art, have stimulated invention and design, have lent labor, dignity, and genius illustration. It is not to be supposed that in a new country their influence can actually be as great as in an old one; but, relatively, it should fee greater. If the colonists of New Zealand have fewer neceslities ehan inhabitants of older and more luxurious countries, and can supply them in many instances better from abroad than on the spot, it is equally true that they know very little of the resources the colony aflords, and that they do not even yet make use of many with which they are well acquainted. They have splendid coal-fields, yet are dependent for coals on other countries; with the best limestone • they import almost all their limej they even get building-stone from Tasmania and Sydney, and brifeis from England and Victoria; with immense forests of splendid timber they import most of their woods of construction whether for building or furniture ; apd with the strongest known vegetable fibre in their flax they have not yet turned it to valuable account. Doubtless the youth of the colony and the consequent deaaness of labor occasions much of this, but in order to obviate that difficulty it is necessary that they should avail themselves of all those aids which machinery to economise labor in the production and conversion of raw material may aflordthem. ~,... To these ends the New Zealand Exhibition, 1865, has been projected. It will be distinguished by not only including every indigenous product and manufacture, but all those obtainable from other countries, which shall be calculated to aid 3 3 the development of the colony. Should the OtorpriM be suc«euful it muit greatly increase

the wealth and the internal and external trade of the country. That it may be so needs but the active sympathy of the whole community. His Excellency the Governor has cordially supported the Exhibition by the issue of a Commission under the Great Seal, and using his best offices to secure the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as well as piomising his own. The General Government has warmly supported the project in advising His Excellency te grant the Commission and by promising to place a sum on the Estimates in aid of its fund?!. Four successive Governments in Otago have each accorded it their cordial approbation, and the Provincial Council of Otago % have shown their support by providing a building to receive the principal portion of the Exhibition and voting L4OOO in aid of its general expenses. Beyond this Government support, the Commissioners have received from many public-spirited persons subscriptions to a Guarantee Fund, amounting altogether to a large and yet daily increasing sum. They have also received valuable aid from the colonial Press. It remains then only for the public throughout New Zealand to evince their hearty appreciation of the project by encouraging by every means In their power the production of New Zealand articles suitable for exhibition, and aiding the Commissioners in obtaining from abroad machines and other things calculated to aid in the development of the colony, . Through the agency of Junes rewards will be distributed by the Commissioners, and it will be especially their object to recognise the merit of ntw products and new manufactures or the material improvement of established articles of New Zealand produce or manufacture. The reports of the Juries, containing brief statements of the grounds of their several awards, will be published. Similar rewards will be distributed among the exhibitors from countries beyond New Zealand. In the presence of a knowledge of the vast public and other works about to be executed in the colony, the Commissioners are making arrangemems to institute a series of experiments, under skilled superintendence, to determine the strength, durability, &c, of such materials used for construction in New Zealand, as have not already been reported on by competent authoThe Commissioners also proposed that a series of essays, by gentlemen conversant with the history of New Zealand and each province, the meteorology, geology, mineralogy, gold and other mining, flora indigenous and exotic, fauna native and acclimatised, trade, vital and other statistics, &c, of the colony shall be prepared and published. They hope also to be enabled to arrange that a considerable selection from the New Zealand objects shall be secured by Government for permanent exhibition in London, so as to give the best proof that this colony affords ample field for the investment of capital, labor, and scientific skill. Primary, then, as the Commissioners consider the object of securing the fullest representation of New Zealand, they also desire to obtain from other countries such a collection of machinery, fitted for colonial use, as has hitherto not been seen south of the line; and they trust that the machinists of Great Britain, the United States, and other countries, will avail themselves of this exhibition as an admirable means of showing to southern colonial communities tha extraordinary strides made of late years in devising machines to economise labor in reclaiming and cultivating j land, converting raw material, and facilitating j transport. As steam power will be provided by the Commissioners, many of the machines will be exhibited in motion. Facilities will also be j afforded for the trial of the various agricultural and horticultural implements exhibited.

The Commissioners further desire to obtain from all other countries manufactures from New Zealand produce, to show in what particular it is chiefly valuable, and where, if defective, it might be improved; also such raw produce as shall be useful, either for comparison with. New Zealand objects of similar character, or as examples of the direction in which the development of the colony may tend. The classification of the International Exhibition »f 1882 has, with slight modification as to gold mining, and aboriginal objects, been adopted; and though the Commissioners claim to be but humble, followers of their great precedent, they hope to see all of the classes well represented. la each Province a Local Committee will be appointed by the Superintendent, whose duties are defined in memoranda transmitted to their Honors, and through whom alone the Commissioners will communicate with New Zealand exhibitors. The Agent in London for the New Zealand Government, Mr John Morrison, Adelaide place, London Bridge, has been requested to act as the Agent in Europe for the Commissioners, and to him any one to whom it is more convenient to write to London than direct to the Secretary at Dunedin, may apply. Correspondents will be appointed also in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Queensland, and Hobart Town. The Commissioners have only to add, that they are deeply sensible of the respouibility of the duties they have undertaken, and again to express their earnest desire to secure the hearty support of all classes of their fellow colonists: they confidently believe that the exhibition will develope the resources of New Zealand, and, whilst increasing our own confidence in them, make them widely known to others ; will create and foster manufacturing industry; encourage mining and agriculture; diffuse knowledge, and improve our communications both by land and sea. They trust that the great work may be a preat success, and assist to raise New Zealand to a place worthy of her climate, position, and resources. To accomplish so great a public good, whilst sparing no effort of their own, they rely on the blessing of Him from whom all things come, and without whom is nothing.

By order,

ALFRED ECCLES. Honorary Secretary. Offices ef the Royal Commission, Belgrave Chambers, Dunedin, N.Z., November sth, 1863.

DECISIONS ON POINTS RELATING TO 1. The Commissioners have fixed upon the first Tuesday in January, 1865, for opening the Exhibition. 2. The Exhibition Building, with such annexes as may be necessary, will be erected in the City of Dunedin, on the Government Eeserve, Block XXIII, Great King street. 3. The principal building will be of brick and cement. The annexes for machinery, &c, will be erected adjoining the main bnilding. 4. The decision whether goeds proposed to be exhibited ar« admissable or not, must in each case eventually rest with the Commissioners. 5. Subject to the necessary limitation of space, all persons, whether designers, inventors, manufacturers, producers, or possessors of articles of J\ew Zealand origin, or of such others the produce of other1 countries as may in the estimation of the Commissioners be eminently calculated to aid in the developement of the Colony, will be allowed to exhibit; but they must state in what character they exhibit. 6. The Commissioners will communicate with New Zealand Exhibitors only through the Local Committee of their respective Provinces, and with those of neighboring Colonies, of Great Great Britain and Ireland, and of Foreign Countries, either through the agent in London directly or through the Secretary in Dunedin. 7. No rent will be charged to Exhibitors. 8. Subject to decisions 5 and 6, every article produced or obtained by human industry, whether of—

Saw materials, Machinery, Manufactures, or Fine Arts, will be admitted to the Exhibition with the exception of Living animals and plants, Fresh vegetables and animal substances liable to spoil by keeping, Detonating or dangerous substances. 9. Spirits or alchohols, acids, coirosive salts, and substances of highly inflammable nature will only be admitted by special written permission and in well secured glass vessels. 10. The articles exhibited will be divided into the following classes :— Seomoh I. Raw Matbbiai.s. CLASS I.—-Mining, quarrying, metallurgy and mineral products. 2.—Chemical substances and products, and pharmaceutical processes. 3 —-Substances used for food. 4.—Animal and vegetable substances used for manufactures. Section ll.—Machinery. Class s.—Railway plant, including locomotive engines and carriages. 6.—Carriages not connected with rail or tram roads. 7. —Manufacturing machines and tools. B.—Machinery uTgeneral. 9.—Agricultural and horticultural machines and implements. £10. —Civil engineering, architectural and building contrivances. "Military engineering, armour and

accoutrements, ordnance and small arms. 12.—Naval architecture and ship's tackle. 13.—Philosophical instruments, and processes depending on their use. 14.—Photographic apparatus and photography. 15.—Horological instruments. 16.—Musical'instruments. , < 17.—Surgical instruments and appliances. Sbctioh lll.—Manufactttbes. Class 18.—Uotton. 19.—Flax and hemp. 20.—t*ilk and velvet.

21.—Woollen and worsted, including i mixed fabrics generally. 22.—Carpets. 23.—Woven, spun, felted and laid fabrics, when shewn as specimens of printing or dyeing. 21.—Tapestry, lace, and embroidery. 25.—Skins, fur, feathers, and hair. 26.—Leather, including saddlery and harness. 27.—Articles of clothing. 28.— Paper, stationery, printing and bookbinding. . 29.—Educational works and appliances. 80, —Furniture and upholstery, including papsr hangings and papier mache. 31.—Iron and general hardware. 32.—Steel and cutlery, and edge tools. 33. —Works in precious icetals. and their 34.—Glass. ' 35.—Pottery. 36.—Manufactures not included in the previous classes. 368.-Maori and other aboriginal manufactures and implements. Section IV.—Fine arts. Class 37.—'Architecture.

38.—Paintings in oil and water colors, and drawings. 39.—Sculpture, models, die-sinking and intaglios. 40.—Etchings and engravings. 11. Prizes or rewards for merit in the form o Honorary Certificates will be given in Sections 1, 2, and 3. (a) These certificates will be of one class for merit without any distinction of degree. (b) No exhibitor will receive more than one certificate in any class or sub-class. (c) A jury will .be formed for each class o the exhibition by whom the certificates will be adjudged, subject, to general rules, whien will regulate the action of the juries. (d) The jurors will be chosen by the Commissioners. (t) The names of the jurors will be published in January, 1865. (f) The jurors will be required to submit their awards with a briel stateraentof the grounds of each, to the Commissioners, before the, 10th day of March, .1865, (g) The awards will be published in the exhibition. (h) They will immediately afterwards be conspicuously attached to the counters of the successful exhibitors, and the grounds ot each award will be very briefly stated. (i) if an exhibitor accept the office ot juror, no certificate can be awarded in the class to which he is appointed, either to himself individually or to the firm in which he may be a partner. (j) The certificates will be delivered to the exhibitors on the last day'of the exhibition. 12. Prices may be affixed to articles exhibited. 13. The Commissioners will be prepared to receive all articles which may be sent to them on or after the first day of October, and will continue to receive goods until the twelfth day of Deoember, 1864, injlusiye. 14. Articles of great size or weight, the placing of which will require considerable labour, mugt be sent before the twenty-first day of November, 1864; the manufacturers wishing to exhibit machinery or other objects that will require foundations or special constructions must make a declaration to that effect in their demands for space, which demand the Commissioners must receive at least three months previous to the day of opening. 15. Any exhibitor whose goods can properly be placed together will be at liberty to arrange them in his own way, provided his arrangement is compatible with the general scheme of the exhibition and the convenience of other exhibitors, 16. Where it is desired to exhibit the process of manufacture, a sufficient number of articles however dissimilar will be admitted for the purpose of illustrating the process, but they must not exceed the number actually acquired. [17—25.] 26. Exhibitors will be required to deliver their goods at such part of the building as may be indicated to them, with the freight, carriage, porterage, and all charges and dues upon them paid. 27. The drays will be unloaded and the articles and packages taken to the places appointed in the building by the officers of the Commissioners. 28. Upon receipt of notice from the Commissionersthat the articles are deposited in the building, exhibitors or their representatives, or agents must themselves unpack, put together, and arrange their goods. Persons will be appointed by the Commissioners who may be empJoyed by exhibitors for this purpose at their own coit and risk.

29. backing cases must be removed at the cost of the exhibitors or their agents as soon as the goods are examined and deposited in charge of the Commissioners. If not removed within three days of notice being given, they will be disposed of, and the proceeds (if any) applied t» the funds of the exhibition. 30. Regulations will be adopted by the principal Steam Companies and others trading to Dunedin, with the view of affording facilitiesfor theconveyance of goods to and from the exhibition. [31-34.] 35. As a general rule, no counters or fittings will be provided by the Commissioners. Exhibitors will be permitted, subject only to ttie necessary general regulations, to erect to their own taste all the counters, stands, glass frames, brackets, awnings, hangings, or similar contrivances which they may consider best calculated for the display oi their goods. 36. Exhibitors, or their representatives, should provide whatever light temporary covering may be necessary (such as sheets of oiled calico) to protect their goods from dust; and, in the ca^e of machinery and polished goods, should make the requisite .arrangements for keeping the articles free from rust during the time of the exhibition. 137—42.] 43. Exhibitors must be at the charge of insuring their own goods, should they desire this security. Every precaution will be taken to prevent fire, theft or other losses, and the Commissioners will give alljthe aid in their power for the legal prosecution of any persons guilty of robbery or wilful injury in the exhibition ; but they will not be responsible for losses or damage of any kind which may be occasioned by fire or theft, er in any other manner. 44. Exhibitors may employ assistants (male or female) to keep in older the articles they exhibit, or to explain them to visitors, after obtaining written permission from the Commissioners; but such assistants will be forbidden to invite visitors to purchase the goods of .their employers. [45-49.] 50. Articles once deposited in the building will . not be permitted to be removed without written permission from the Commissioners. 151—54.] 55. The Commissioners will provide shafting, steam not exceeding 30 lbs per inch), or water at high pressure for machines in motion. 56. Persons who may wish to exhibit machinery in motion will be allowed to have it worked as lar as practicable under their own superintendence and by their own men. [57-69.] 70. Intending exhibitors in New Zealand are requested to apply without delay to the Provincial Committees of their respective Provinces for a form of demand for space, stating at the same time in which ot the four sections they wish to exhibit. 71. The following is the form which has to be filled up:— 1. Name and Christian name oi applicant or name of firm. 2. Nature of business carried on 5. Exact address (stating post town and province or country) 4. Nature of articles lo be exhibited Floor Space; J Length feet Breadth . .. feet Height feet which they will be I Hanging or Wall Space. shown. I ' I Height feet (^ Width feet 172-99 , „ I 100. Exhibitors from countries beyond New Zealand, should make their demands for space to j the Agent in Great Britaifl, or direct to the Setary at creDunedin,

101. The Commissioners will consider those persons to be the Provincial Committees in New Zealand who have been appointed by th 2 respective Superintendents, and will only communicate with exhibitors through such committees. -ne Commissioners will appoint an Agent in Great Britain. 102. The Commissioners will communicate to such committees the amount of space which can be allowed to the Province for which they act, and will also state the further conditions and limitations which may from time to time be decided on with rsspect to the admission of articles. All articles forwarded by such Committees will be admitted provided they do not require a greater aggregate amount of space than that assigned to the Province from which they come; and provided also that they do not violate the general conditions and limitations. Subject to Decision 4, it will rest with the Committee of each Province to decide upon the merits and suitability for exhibition of the articles from that Province. A communication will also fee made to the Agent in Great Britain, assigning a, definite amount of space to the United Kingdom, and to the several foreign countries exhibitors for which may correspond with him. The Agent will have powers similar to those of the Provincial Committees as to the selection or articles proposed for exhibition. 103. -Separate space will, if possible, be alloted to each Province of New Zealand, within which the Committee for that Province will be at liberty to arrange the productions entrusted to them in such manner as fthey think best, subject to the condition that all machinery shall be exhibited in the portion of the buying specially devoted to that purpose, and all pictures, as the commissioners may direct, and to the observance of any general Jrules that may be laid town by the Commissioners for public conrenience. 104. By arrangements made with the JNew Zealand (iovernment, all foreign or colonial goods intended for exhibition, sent and addressed in awordance with the regulations laid down by her Majesty's Collector of Customs, as set forth in Article 108, will be admitted into the country and allowed to be transmitted to the exhibition building without being previously opened, and without payment of any duty. But all goods which shall not be re "exported at the termination of the exhibition, will be charged with the proper duties under the ordinary Customs regulations.

[105.1 106. Every article sent separately, and every package must be legibly marked with the name of the country or colony of which it is the produce or manufacture, and as far as practicable with, the name of the exhibitor or exhibitors. 107. The following is the j form of address which should be adopted :—

To the Commissioners for the New Zealand Exhibition, 1865. BUILDING, DUNBDIN, OTAGO, N.Z.

From [state country and exhibitor's name.] To prevent loss, miscarriage, or mislaying articles or packing cases containing them, which occupy less bulk than two Cubic feet, should not be sent separately if it can be avoided, but packages under such size containing as far as possible, the same class of articles should be transmitted in combination. 108. The Customs authorities have laid down the following regulations upon the importation of goods intended for the exhibition :— (a) All packages containing goods for the New Zealand Exhibition of 1865, shall be specially reported as such, and shall be addressed to the Commissioners of the New Zealand Exhibition, or to one of their officers, and be consigned to a duly accredited agent, and shall be accompanied with a specification of their contents and value. They shall be separately entered as intended for the New Zealand Exhibition, and the agents in passing their entries shall specify the full contents of the packages together with their value. (6) Such packages as may be landed in Dunedin shall be forwarded unopened . to the exhibition in charge of an approved licensed drayman, accompanied by a dray note from the landing officer giving a description of the packages and the numbers and marks thereon; and in cases where they may be supposed to contain other goods than those for the exhibition they shall also be accompanied by a revenue officer. (<;) Packages landed at other ports shall be forwarded with a similar note by public conveyance under seals of office direct to the exhibition, the officers at the respective ports taking care the packages bear no private address, and that the documents relating thereto be immediately forwarded to the proper officers of the Customs stationed at the exhibition. (d) On the arrival of the goods at the exhibition no package shall be opened without the knowledge and consent of the officer of Customs, and if the goods be found to agree with the entry or specification, they will, if free, be at once considered out of charge of the Customs, the entry or declaration being sufficient for all statistical purposes. (s) In the case of all dutiable goods an account will be taken by the officers) of the Customs at the time of first opening the packets, but such deficiencies as may occur within the building from any legitimate or unavoidable cause, the oficer being fully satisfied thereof, shall not be charged with duty. (/) That the building be considered f»r all practical purpeses a " Bonded Warehouse," and that ia all cases vrhere goods shall not be exported but retained for use in this country, the duty shall be assessed by the officer in charge of the building (and received in the exhibition by a clerk duly appointed for the purpose) in accordance with the practice now existing in regard to articles found in passengers' baggage. {g) In the case of dutiable goods for exportation an entry will be passed in the long room and bond given for their due exportation ; and on the receipt of this entry by the officer in charge of the building, the goods shall be packed in his presence, and if for shipment at any other port placed under seal and forwarded in charge of a steamboat or other public carrier; but if for shipment at Dunedin they shall then beaent under charge of Customs officers at the expense of the exporter to be delivered into the charge of the searcher «f the station from which they are to be shipped without further examination, under the regulations applicable to goods shipped direct from the warehouse. . 109. An outline of the Patent Law of New Zealand is inserted for the information of exhibitors from a distance, but it is not the intention of the Commissioners to take any steps in reference to the protection of inventors or discoverers b^patent or registration. r Under the " Patents Act," IB6o.—Any person being the originator of any new invention or improvement, for which no patent has been issued in New Zealand or any other country, may obtain letters patent after depositing LlO with the Celonial Treasurer, and at the office a petition to the Governor, stating the object of his invention and praying for a patent. The specifications and drawings must bs delivered in duplicate, with principles ol machines, &c, explained, and specimens of ingredients, &c., if any, for the purpose of experiment, be delivered. Notice to be published in the " Gazette," and one newspaper in each province, and alter four months, if no objection is lodged, a patent may be issued; the holder to be entitled to the same privileges in New Zealand as patentee under the Great Seal in England. More than twelve persons may be interested in a patent. Patent may be assigned. The holder or assignee of letters patent obtained in threat Britain or other countries, may obtain letters of registration, entitling the holder during continuance of the original patent in the country in which it was granted, and no longer, to all the privileges ot letters patent granted in New Zealand, on payment of LlO to the Colonial Treasurer.