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Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1611, 23 August 1861, Page 4

[From the Provincial Government Gazette.] Provincial Secretary's Office, ; Wellington, 15th August, 1861. HIS HONOR THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, at the request of the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, directs the publication of the following Despatches from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies; together with the Warrant appointing local Commissioners in reference thereto ; for general information. --J-. Woodward, Acting Provincial Secretary;.. Downing Street, 20th April, 1861. Sib, — With reference to my previous Despatches on. the same subject, I transmit to you herewith for your information b copy of a notioe which has been published in the London Gazette of the 29th ultimo, by Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhibition of 1862, containiDg the decisions at which they have arrived on points connected with the management of the Exhibition. I have, &c, Newcastle. Governor Gore Browne, C.B. DECISIONS OF HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS ON POINTS EELATING TO THE EXHIBITION: April, 1861. < 1. Her Majesty's Commissioners have fixed upon Thursday, the Ist day of May, 1862, for opening the Exhibition. 2. The Exhibition building will be. erected on a site adjoining the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the ground occupied in 1851, on the occasion of the first International Exhibition. 3. The portion of the building to be devoted to the exhibition of Pictures will be erected in brick^ and will occupy the entire front towards Cromwell Road ; the portion in which Machinery will be exhibited will extend along Prince Albert's, Road, ou the west side of the gardens. - 4.. All works of industry to be exhibited should have, been produced since JBSO. The decision whether goods, proposed to be exhibited, are admissable or not, must, in each case, eventually rest with Her Majesty's Commissioners. 5. Subject to! "the necessary limitation of space, all. persons, whether designers, inventors, manufacturers, or produoers of articles, will be allowed to exhibit ; but they must state the character in which they do so. ..< ..._. 6. Her Majesty's Commissioners will communicate with Foreign and Colonial exhibitors only through the Commission which the Government of each Foreign Country or Colony may appoint for that 'purpose; and no article will be admitted from any Foreign' Country or Colony without the sanction of such Commission. 7. No rent will be charged to exhibitors. --*'-, 8: Every article produced or obtained by human industry, whether of iiaw. Materials, Machinery, Manufactures, or . Fine Arts, . will be admitted to the Exhibition, with the exoeption of,