Wilkin, J.P. W. Wilson, • J. Strange Williams The committee for the Art Exhibition, 1870, announce that an Exhibition of selected Works of Fine and Industrial Art, will be opened in Christchurch at the New Museum Building in the month of February next. It is proposed to hold the Exhibition for a period of one month. Objects from all New Zealand will be admitted, subject to the approval of local committees and representatives, that they are of sufficient excellence to be worthy of exhibition. The committee invite for the purposes of the Exhibition, the loan of objects in the following classes CLASS I.—FINE ARTS. 1. Paintings, in oil, water-colours enamel, porcelain, &c. 2. Sculpture, in marble, wood, stone, terracotta, metal, ivory, and other materials. 3. Copies of ancient pictures, enamels, reproductions in plaster, electrotypes of fine works of ancient art. 4. Engravings, lithography, chromolitho graphy, photography, specimens of typography, ancient and modern. 5. Architectural and engineering models and designs. 6. Tapestries, embroideries, lace, &c. shewn for their fine art and not as manufactures. 7. Coins, ancient and modern. 8. Designs and objects of all kinds of decorative manufactures. a. Articles in plate and jewelry, b. do do porcelain and earthen ware. c. do do inlaid woods. 9. Articles illustrative of archaeology. 10. Articles illustrative of ethnology— Europe (the Mediterranean, the Le vant); Northern Africa (Egypt, AbyssiniaV, Asia (Turkey, Persia, India, Malay Peninsula, China, Japan); Australasia (New Zealand); Polynesia; North and South America (Mexico, Peru); Southern Africa (the Cape, Madagascar). CLASS lI.—DESIGNS AND MODELS OF INVENTIONS AND NEW DISCOVER IES OF ALL KINDS. No models to exceed one cubic yard of content. The history, description, and particulars of each article to be furnished by exhibitors. Prices for any objects for sale may be communicated to the Secretary, and such ob jects will be allowed to be sold under regula tions to be made by the Committee. Glass cases will be provided for jewelry and for delicate works of art. The Exhibition will be held in that isolated stone building with a temporary addition in iron, lined with wood, situated in the Government Domain, Christchurch, erected for the Canterbury Museum. 