NEW ZEALAND AT THE GREAT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 143, 1 May 1862, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND AT THE GREAT

EXHIBITION.

The " New Zealand Court" of the Great Exhibition bills fair to be of great interest. The committees organised in the various Provinces appear to have exerted themselves energetically in making a good collection. A catalogue of the articles has been published, and shows, amongst other items of native growth or manufacture, buckets made by machinery, Candles and soap, dried fruit, flax, mats, rope made from New' Zealand flax, furniture of excellent work- • innnship, furniture woods of various kinds and great ; beauty. There are also weighty specimens of Coro- ; mandel sold, coal from Drury and from Waikato, ' coffee and cotton from the South Sea Islands, with which Auckland has .established a regular trade; ; copper ores from vaaious localities in the colony; i- sulphur from White Island, marble from Wangarie, 1 wool, shifted birds of New Zealand, kauri gum, be- ' side 3 various other article illustrative of the natural history and products of New' Zealand. The art of the ■ pnintiiri too, has been enlisted in the service; the i New Zealand flora has been gracefully illustrated in ' a water-rolor drawing by Mrs. Fox; Mr. Heaphy ' will s'lil to his established reputation as an artist by ' his pictures of the White Island Volcano, and of the I boiiiuir springs of Te Tarata, in the luke district, and ins n man of science, by his geological map of Auckland; Mi1. A. Martin'contributes an admirable view ;of n portion of the Manukua Harbor, and Mr. Cromibia furnishes photographs of "the heads of the 'people," the representative men of New Zealand, as /they appeared in the elective chamber of the General i Assembly in the Purliainentsgof IBSO and 1861. ! We understand that Mr. Ridgway has received | letters by this mail, authorising him to attend to the I proper arrangement of all the New Zealand produc- ,' tions sent from Auckland, to supply the necessary i funds for defraying the expenses, and instructions as 1 to the disposal of the difibrcnt articles at the closing \ of the Exhibition for the benefit of the Provincial 1 Government.— New Zealand JSxnniiner, London, 1 Projkotep Royal Marriage. The journals have : lately published the text of the treaty concluded bei tween the Queen and the Grand Duke of Hesse, for ; the 'marriage of the Princess Alice with the Prince ! Frederick William Louis Charles of Hesse. By this ! treaty the appanage of the Prince is fixed at 40,000 ; florins per aunum, and her: Majesty engages to give i her royal daughter a marriage portion of £30,000. and : to secure to her the annual sum of £6,000, which is to be appropriated to her separate use: The Grand , Duke of Hesse engages to secure to, her Royal High- : ness, in the event of the death of his s»i, a jointure, together with a residence at Dramstadt, and the interest of her marriage portion. Should her Boyal f Highness become Grand Duchess of Hesse, she is to : receive the Fame .allowance that .former Grand-Duchtf-sch have enjoyed/ The ratifications of this treaty aie to be exchanged "as soon is possible." Aim.ii-.it Relics. — A few days' ago (says the Southern Reporter, as a ploughmaa on the farm of , Lewin-.hope, Yarrow, was turning' over- some: new ground on the side of the Minehmuif, hisjeye cangh't an object sticking in the newly laidjiip earth, \vliidi,' on ] itKing \ip, he found to be a silwr coiii of ancient date.1 On being cleaned up it wa's found to be in a wonderful state'of preservation, and tlie inscription can*be distinctly traced. On the (ibvcrse it bears— " uoiiKßivs dbi ora hex scotorvi," and on the reveise — "i>ns petctok us et MnAfOK its" (the;. Lord ib my Pieteetor and Deliverer). Yithin an inner circle arf the words — "villa edikjurgii." The coin is somp-n hat laifier than the cu/rent Bliilling, but ' much ihiuier. It bears no date,but there seems to be no loi.m for donbt that it belaigs to the reign of RobtH ]>ruce. . The spot where jt was-turned up was within a few yards of the old drive road over the hill from Traquair to Yarrowford.y' Two other relics of the past were lately turned uppy a' labourer on the oiti-.te of I'liiliphaugh, —^viz.jtyp cannon balls.which tvere dug out of the'bank betWem Philiphaugh School iwd Beechwdod. They were ea^h about the Eize of an itfftnfe, but considerab'lyi eaten With .rust. From the pdsiti'm in wnich they were foiiid, it js no rash conjectuis to Btippose that they w<re lodged in the' bank i>y one of tue field-pieces ;of Sir Divid Leslie's or MontmeV ormy on the.day; of the'-'imeinorable battle' of Pluijpliaugh. f: •/ A.i

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