NEW CALEDONIA.

Colonist, Volume V, Issue 470, 25 April 1862, Page 3

NEW CALEDONIA.

(From the Sydney MaV.)

We are in receipt of the official newspapers of New Caledonia, from the sth of January last to the 23rd February. The Moniteur Imperial is now called the Moniteur de la Nouvelle Caledonie ; it is, as a journal, much improved, and is now printed instead of being lithographed. The Monitcur of the 26th January contains the Report of the Commission charged with the duty of collecting the products of New Caledonia, for transmission to the next Exhibition at London. There are three distinct series of the articles to be exhibited. The first section of the first series of these (vegetables and vegetable products) will be woods; the second, textile materials, exclusive of cotton and silk; the third, cottons of all descriptions; the fourth, waddings and vegetable silks; the fifth, materials of use for dyeing and tanning;

the sixth, balms, gums, resir.ous products, and varnish-woods; the seventh, substances from which oils can be extracted; the eighth, different sorts of flour and other farinaceous substances; the ninth, sugars; the tenth, alcohols and essential oils; the eleventh, coffees; the twelfth, cocoas: the thitteenth, epices and aromatic barks ; the fourteenth, medicinal substances; the fifteenth, alimentary grain; the sixteenth, tobacco; and the seventeenth, specimens of ihe/era of New Caledonia, and divers vegetable substances. The second series is devoted to minerals, and the third to animals and animal substances.