A SPLENDID ART COLLECTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2132, 2 December 1890, Page 4

A SPLENDID ART COLLECTION.

Auckland, Nov. 28. The Mackelvie gift, for whose exhibition in the Auckland Art Gallery arrangements have now been made between the Trustees and the City Council, includes pictures to the number of X-32, books, bronzes, enamels, mosaics, jades, rock crystals, stone, glass, cbina, Wedgwood and other ware, carved wood and ivory bonbonniers, snuff boxes, &c., arms and armour, porcelain and faience from Hyeres, and miscellaneous articles. Some of the pictures have been on exhibition in the Museum. In order to comply with the terms of Mr Mackelvie’s will, it is necessary that a separate building should be provided for the collection, and it ia now suggested that this should be built adjoining the present Art Gallery, where the gilt will remain until the new building is complete. It is pro* posed that the Mayor ot Auckland should be appointed one of the trustees of the gift in the place of the President of the Bank of New Zealand, as the head-quarters of that institution are now in London. Dur-

ing a discussion regarding the Ivlackelvie gran L , it was stated that legacies to persons in England with reversions to the Auckland City Council were of such yalue that in all probability there would eventually bo a sum of £30,000 to endow the Art Gallery.