SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1586, 20 March 1879, Page 3

SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

A meeting of the local committee of the Sydney Exhibition was held yesterday at 2.30 p.m. Present Messrs Turner, Cunningham, Nathan, Wood, Beaumont, ana Bevans. Mr Cunningham was voted to the chair.

The Secretary read a telegram from the Central Commission, authorising the local committee to expend .£IOO. He also stated he had issued a number of circulars to likely exhibitors.

Mr Nathan said that Mr W. Wilson had promised to exhibit building stone of various kinds. He would like to ask the secretaty whether the Government had been written to, asking for the loan of articles from the various Museums.

The Secretary said that he had forwarded such a letter, but had not received any answer. He might say that he had received a letter from the secretary to the Commission, stating that the collector of Customs had been instructed to allow exhibits to go free of duty, and that the Commissioner of Telegraphs had also decided to allow telegrams on the business of the Commission to be sent free of charge. The writer also stated that labels bearing the flag of the colony and the address of the Exhibition Commission in Sydney would shortly be issued. The letter was as f Hows :

Sydney Exhibition Commission, Wellington, March 6th, 1879. Sir, —I have the honor, at the request of the Commissioners, to forward to your address by the mail which carries this the undermentioned forms, viz.:—

200 copies general regulations, 200 copies special wool schedules,

200 copies applications for space. I am directed by the Commissioners to ask the favor of the hearty co-operation and assistance of your local committee, by encouraging the inhabitants of the district to contribute such objects of interest as they may command, demonstrative of the produce and industry of your portion of the olony.

In showing to best advantage «ar chief natural products, our manufactures and industries, at the great home and colonial gathering to he held in Sydney in September next, we shall practically he exhibiting onr resources to pretty well the whole of the world.

Toa will please notice that a further exhibition of wool will be held in Sydney in December, and that exhibitors must obtain certificates of entry, which must be filled up and returned to the secretary in Sydney as early as possible, and not later than the Ist December next. Before fillingnp the exhibitor’s certificate of entry for wool, it will be necessary to consult the general and special regulations in the schedule of prizes, and the Commissioners are now making application to the office of the International Commissioners, Sydney, for a supply of the regulations.

The following telegram was addressed to the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce on the 25th ult., viz..— "Please forward by earliest mail detailed estimate of the proposed expenditure by your local committee, from which a grant is requested from funds at the disposal of the Commissioners. As the total amount «£ the fund is small, please exercise economy.’’ As soon as the Commissioners have been favored with your reply to this request, I shall again have the pleasure of communicating with you on this subject. I have already forwarded you sundry copies of Sydney illustrated papers, containing an engraving of the exhibition, also copies of the official programme (new issue), which I trust reached you safely. The Collectors of Customs have been directed by th# Government to arrange for the transmission of the exhibits at the public expense, and free charge to the exhibitors. Labels bearing the flag of the colony, and the exhibition official address, will very shortly bo issued. The Commissioner of Telegraphs has been pleased to allow the chairmen of local committees the power to send telegrams on the business of the Commission, freo of charge, if addressed to mo officially. In conclusion, I am directed by the Commissioners to state that they will gladly receive any suggestions from the local committees which may tend to secure the object of their labors, and to afford at all times the fullest information within their power. I have the honor to bo. Sir, Your most obedient servant, Cuas. Callis, Secretary. C. W, Turner, Esq., President Local Committee, Sydney Exhibition Commission, Christchurch. Mr Nathan moved —“That the Government be asked whether they would bo prepared to have some exhibits of Canterbury marble polished in Sydney in time for the exhibition, the expense to be b rno by the exhibitors.” Mr Wood thought it would be better to have it done by the committee.

Mr Nathan pointed out that all the exhibits must fi!i a 9 through the hands of the Government here, and if they sent these exhibits of marble up themselves they might bo shut out. 'i he Chairman said that they would send the marbies through the agent of the General Government in Sydney. The motion was then agreed to. It was resolved that the secretary be instructed to communicate with Mr W, Wilson, informing him that the committee were informed that he intended exhibiting some specimens of building stones, &c., and asking him how much space ho would require Mr Bi aumont said ho knew that Lightband, Allan and Co. were going to send a case of their manufactures

Mr Nathan suggested that it would perhaps be as well if a cose of ferns were prepared and sent over to Sydney. Mr Wood said that if Messrs Duncan and Son would take this matter in hand, no doubt they would be enabled to send a good collection of New Zealand ferns, which would be very interesting to visitors to tbe Sydney Exhibition. The Secretary, said he understood that M essrs Peterson and Co. would send a case of jewellery, &c. Mr Nathan said that ho would suggest to the committee whether it would not be as well to have a canvasser to go round to the gentlemen to whom circulars had been posted, and obtain from them a distinct promise of exhibiting. Mr Beaumont said that perhaps the best way would be for tbe members of the committee each to take a section of likely exhibitors. Mr Nathan said that unless something was done they would be meeting there week after week, and finding them-elves in the position of having nothing whatever before them. The Secretary said he had sent out 158 cir. culars.

It was decided that the time for receiving exhibits should be the first week in Jane. The Secretary stated that Mr Cherrill had applied for sixty feet of wall space. The committee then adjourned.