64 Historical Notes on the 



Xew Zealant) I:NT)rs trial Exhibition, Dunedzn", 1865. 



The Provincial Government having accepted an invitation to have 

 the Geological Survey of Canterbury represented in the New Zealand 

 Industrial Exhibition, to be held at Dunedin in the beginning of 1865, 

 I prepared a number of geological and botanical specimens, maps, and 

 sections for exhibition, and proceeded on January 27th, 1865, to 

 Dunedin, for the preparation of the necessary show-cases, and to 

 study the contents of the Exhibition, which, considering the shortness 

 of time and the limited resources of the Colony, may be pronounced to 

 have been a most remarkable success. It doubtless marked a great stage 

 in the history of the Colony, as here, for the first time, all its principal 

 resources, and many of them of no mean order, could be examined 

 under one roof. I also paid a visit to the principal goldfields of the 

 Province of Otago, and returned to Canterbury towards the middle of 

 February, when I devoted several days to a geological examination of" 

 the Timaru district, in reference to obtaining a supply of water for 

 that town. A report on the subject* was handed to the Provincial 

 Government, and printed in the same year, in which the result of my 

 researches in respect to this important question are given. 



* Keport on the Geological Formation of the Timaru District in reference to obtaining a supply 

 of water; with several geological sections. By Jclius Haast, PhD., F.G.S., F.L.S., Provincial 

 Geologist. 



