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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 93, 3 December 1872, Page 2

A letter from Vienna," the Tall Mall Gazelle states- " gives some encouraging details regarding the prospects & the Universal Exhibition of 1873 in the Austrian capita Tlia building makes rapid progress; a great part of t¥ pricipal gallery, as well as of the four transverse galleries, t the Palace of Industry being already covered in. The Ivb day for the reception of exhibitors' demands for admissid , was the first of July. The result surpasses all previo;! precedents. More than 15..000 Australian exhibitors br announced their intention of taking part in the exlnbitu and from Hungary alone have come 3000 requests for t mission. At the first London Exhibition, in 1852 tfo were 7381 English exhibitors; and at the second in IS i>3B7. At the first Paris Exhibition, in 1855, there v 11,003 French exhibitors, and' the second, in 1867, tf were 13,000; so that the- number of Austrian exhibitor considerably higher than the high s , ; ct any similar sho" the kind. The Grerman empire will be represented by S( exhibitors, Belgium by 800, while Italy Switzerland, other European countries will send their products ir> Isquantities. Of more distant countries, the United Sfc Brazil, Cnma, and Japan will be well represented, and Porte as well as Egypt have taken the requisite steps t< sure the participation of the East in the universal cornLarge enclosures are being prepared in the enceint inhibition for the accomodation of Turkish and E, pvoductE There is every prospect, therefore, tfc T icnna Exhibition of 1873 will not prove inferior to it* accessor.;." x