THE NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 August 1864, Page 3

THE NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION.

"We understand that Mr. Colenso, of Napier, is the gentleman entrusted by the Exhibition Commissioners with the writing of an essay " on the botany, geographic and economic, of the North Island of New Zealand." It appears that Mr. John Morrison, the agent of the New Zealand Government in London, is actively engaged in arranging measures by which the most efficient and serviceable aid may be rendered to the Exhibition, at home. He has, with this end, secured the services of P. L. Simmonds, ■- Esq., late DeputySuperintendent of the Colonial Department of the International Exhibition of 1862. The experience which this gentleman had in organizing and carrying out, with perfect success, the arrangements of an important department on that occasion, is a sufficient guarantee of the services which he is likely to render to the New Zealand Exhibition. Several important application have been received, amongst others from Messrs. F. Morton and Co., the iron manufacturers of Liverpool, who, besides asking for a space of 9 by 16, with headway of sixteen or seventeen feet, for the display of models, drawings, &c, of their fences, buildings, and other manufactures, also wish to know whether there is any .available ground that could be granted to them for the erection, of an iron building complete, and to exhibit fences, gates, &c. About thirty feet wide hy : 128 long is the space required for this. Drl W. D. Lindsay, a scientific man, who has lately visited this colony, and has been illustrating the geology and mineralogy of Otago, before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, purposes to contribute a series of specimens, illustrative of I'geology1 ' geology i and mineralogy of Northern Europe, !as illustrating that of Qtago ;iigd these he intends to present .to Provincial -permanent ' Museum that may arise out ibfc -the" Exhibition, , < : Special letters been addressed i by y '~ Mr v ' Momsdn; on behalf of the Royal Commissioners, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, requesting his Grace would be good enough

to communicate officially to the Governors of the; Mediterranean,', "West # Indian, and "NorW American Colonies, the -decisions relative to the Eadubila 011^ as to give'' them the qppbrtumtf of, exhibiting _if Bp^disposed. A Also' -to' 'ijarl Russell, 'Secretary, for Affair**, asking him to notify the same to our Ministers in foreign >States,fsp(t^^ mati^r officiaU^^ow»^^^ff-cular ; letters have also^bem|, addressed ■t^'&e Consuls T G-eneral^lipni2on ; for theipading States, and of South and' 'Cerit^p. America. Besides^ ith'eH American Mfffi aters and Consuls, letters have also l>ee^ addressed to the Cpinmissipnerr of Patetes, ington'; to the Secretary of th J|jf ew York State Agricultural Society (who : was a Commissioner in the last inhibition) ; to several of the Agricultural; Scientific, and other American^ journals, and to some of the shipowners and^otljers? interested in New Zealand., ' I^ho^asllM of publicity in the United Bjngd^pg letters have , been sent to most, i o£|k|)Q| officials connected with the Internatipnatf Exhibition of 1862 ; to the ' Presidentsfb% the leading societies, artistic, meehanicali''&c.; to all the Chambers of Commerce,' Commercial Associations and. Exchanges, and News Rooms; to the National Industrial Museums at Kew, South ; Kensington, Jermyn-street, Dublin, and Edinburgh ; to the Banks and other public institutions, shipowners, brokers, publishers, and others directly or idirectly connected with New-Zealand ; to the Royal Agricultural Society, the Dublin Agricultural Society, the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society, , lipndpn Farmers' Club, Agricultural Implement Makers, and others ; to the London Agents for the Australian Colonies, at'tfte G-ovirn- ' ment Emigration Agents atthe ; outpprts ?: and various other parties.