SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1568, 27 February 1879, Page 3

SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

A meeting of the local committee was to have been held yesterday, but lapsed for want of a quorum. Those present were—Messrs 0. W. Turner, J. Beaumont, and J. A. Bird (secretary). 'The following principal points of the regulations issued by the Commission in Sydney will be of interest to intending exhibitors.

REGULATIONS. The transportation unpacking, and arranging exhibits, are to be undertaken by the exhibitor, or his agent, at his own expense; in cases, however, where the e-xhibitO’ is not present, and h s not employed an agent, the Commi sion will have the exhibits unpacked, displayed, and re packed, making a small, uniform, and proportionate charge for the same, but the receiving at the doors of the Exhibition Buildings, and pla* ing the unpacked cases on the proper spaces will not be charged for. Exhibits will bo admitted free of duty. The removal of goods, except under special circumstances, will not be permitted prior to the close of the Exhibition. Facilities will be given for the sale of exhibits to be delivered after the close of the Exhibition. A special provision will be made by Parliament for the protection of inventions capable of being patented in New Bonth Wales. The general reception of articles in the Exhibition building will commence on July Ist, 1879. , . The plans for the display and accommodation of such objects as may require either special arrangements or exceptional works for their erection, must receive the approval of the C »m----mission before they are executed, and the works must be carried out under the supervision of its officers. Space assigned to countries and colonies, and not occupied on the first day of September, 1879, will revert to the Commission, and will be subject to re-arrangement. If exhibits are not intended for competition, it must be so stated by the exhibitors, and they will be excluded from examination by the International Judges. An official cat dogne will be published in English by the Commission. Each country, however, may produce, at its own expense and in its own language, a special catalogue of the objects exhibited in its section. The Commission reserves the right of sale of th* official catalogue. No work of art, nor any article whatever, exhibited in the buildings, parks, or gardens may be drawn, copied, or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the permission of the exhibitor and the Commi sion. Steam power will bo supplied in a limited quantity gratuitously The Commissioners desire to encourage the display of machinery in motion, and will endeavour to provide power to meet all reasonable demands. All fittings, show cases, shelving, &c., which exhibitois require, mn»t be provided at their own expense, and also all shaftings, pulleys, belting, &c.. for the traces and measures of power from the main shaft. The Commissioners will, however, arrange to furnish show cases by contract, at a price per cubic foot, the cost to be borne by the exhibitor using the same. All artistic decorations and arrangements must be approved by the Commission. The Commission reserves the right of rejecting or returning any proposed exhibit; articles that are in any way dangerous, or offensive, or injurious to public decency or morality will not be admitted into the exhibition. The duty of deciding upon the admission of works of art will devolve upon an advisory committee. Special and suitable space will be reserved for the exhibition of such ancient pictures and works of art as may be so admitted. The Commission will take every precaution for the safe preservation of all objects in the Exhibition, but they will be in no way responsible for damage or loss of any kind, or accidents by fire or otherwise, however caused. Facilities will be afforded the representatives of countries, and colonies, and private exhibitors for insuring their goods, and they may also employ watchmen of their own choice to guard their goods during the hours the exhibition is open to the public. The appointment of such watchmen will be subject to the approval of tie Commission. Th>*se persons must wear a special dre-s or distinctive badge, and will have the power of calling the police to their aid. Awards shall be based on written reports, attested by the signatures of their_ authors. The judges will be selected for their known qualifications and character, and will be experts in the departments to which they will be respectively assigned. One half of the judges will be appointed by the Commission of each c -nutry or colony, in conformity with the distribution and allotment to each, which will be hereafter announced. The judges from New South Wales will be appointed by the International Exhibition Commission. Reports and awards shall be based upon inherent and comparative merit. The elements of merit shall be held to include considerations relating to originality, invention, discovery, utility, quality, skill, workmanship, fitness far the purposes intended, adaptation to public wants, economy, and cost. Each report will be delivered to the International Exhibition Commission, as soon as completed, for final award and publication. Awards will be finally decreed by the Sydney International Exhibition Commission, and will consist of a diploma, with a medal, and a special report of the judges on the subject of the award. Each exhibitor will have the right to produce and publish the report awarded to him, but the Sydney International Commission reserves the right to publish and dispose of all reports in the manner it thinks best for pnblic information, and also to publish and distribute the reports in regard to the Exhibition. Within two months after the close of the Exhibition, exhibitors, or their duly authorised agents, shall remove their effects. G >ods remaining beyond that period shall be re uoved and sold by auction, or otherwise disposed of, under the direction of the Executive Commissioner, and the net proceeds handed to the exhibitors, or their duly appointed agents. Every person who becomes an exhibitor hereby undertakes and acknowledges to observe the rules and regulations established for the government of the Exhibition. ‘ be commission reserves the right _to alter, amend, explain, or add to these regulations.