THE NEW SOUTH WALES EXHIBITION.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1538, 22 January 1879, Page 3

THE NEW SOUTH WALES EXHIBITION.

[Sjm*<*ss*S Wire.] Wellington. January 21. A supplementary “ Gazette” contains the following notice :

Referring to notice published in the “ New Zealand Gazette” No. 3f5 of 26th April, 1878, relative to the Australian International Exhibi-. tion to be held in Sydney, N.S.W., in August, 1870, it is hereby further notified that the Government of New Zealand will bo prepared to receive and forward to Sydney any articles for exhibition which may be prepared by persons resident in this colony. i\ royal commission will bo appointed immediately, who will prepare and publish regulations under which they will receive exhibits for transmission. Articles for exhibition should he shipped from Wellington not later than Juno next. Persons wishing to exhibit are invited to communicate with Dr. Hector, the chairman ofithe royal commission, without delay. All expenses of transmitting and exhibiting approved articles will be defrayed by the Government, but as experience has proved that in exhibitions of this kind the best effect is proproduced by a few well-displayed objects of considerable size, and as the space allowed to the colony for exhibition will ho limited, careful selection will have to he made, so that the representation may be complete. The collectors of Customs at various ports have been instructed to receive exhibits and forward them to the chairman of the Exhibition Commission at Wellington, by whom they will be collected and transmitted to Sydney, but no exhibits can be received later than 30tii Juno, 1879. After the exhibition is closed the exhibits will either be returned to exhibitors free of expense, or sold, or otherwise disposed of in Sydney at the desire of exhibitors, but the Government undertakes no responsibility for loss or damage, cither in transit or during exhibition, or in regard to the price to be realised if sold, nor will they guarantee the safe remittance of money.