THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 252, 28 November 1872, Page 7

THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.

(The " Times," Augud 16th).

The situation of the Exhibition Palace is admirable lying, in the heart of a Park unsnrpassed for beauty by any in Jlurope. The area apportioned to the Exhibition will embrace about four or five English square miles. The covered space available for the Exhibition will be about 1,150,000 square feet, being considerably more than that occupied by the Paris Erbibition of 1867. The Exhibition building will be 905 metres long by 205 metres wide. It will contain one main gallery, or nave, intersect* ing the whole edifice. This gallery has cross-galleries or transepts on each side, which are so placed as not to obstruct the view from either end. Between the transepts &nd the nave lie the garden courts, which will also be available for exhibition purposes, and each country will have one or more of these tranaepa allotted to it, together with the portion of the nave and transepts adjoining. A rotunda will rise from' the centre of the building, and divide the main buUding iv the middle. This rotunda, when finished, will be the largest canopy-shaped edifice without supports that has ever been erected. It has a diameter of 102 metres, and its height is seventy-nine metres. Tb» whole will be constructed of iron, after a design by Mr Scott Buesd'. Build* ings of a permanent character sufficiently protected will be provided for the exhibition of works of fine . art. From the chief building covered gal- . leries lead to a large conservatory and to smaller pavilions, which are intended for the exhibition of horticultural productions, aquarii, Ac. A separate, hall will be erected for machinery in. motion, 890 metres in length, and twenty-eight . metres in width. In this hall will be found hydraulic machines, diving apparatus &c. TheImperial villa and the hall in which, the jury will deliberate and jnake their awards will also be erected in the grounds, which, will be laid out under the direction of a landscape gardene* of great reputation.

The once renowned fast sailing irmmgrant ship Bobert Hendemon h now thus, gpoken of by an Auckland piper—«Tbe poor< old Bobtfrt Render**** catn^ toiling up harbour this' mofniQg and gladly .dropped anchor off Stoke 1 * Point," - -;,.. . A man, .wearing three- gorgeous baeaet-pina, but uo«tockinga, recently attracted atteation. int Da&bt*ry; Cch&;