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Carpets. —Tapestry, velvet-pile, or Axminster Brussels and "Wilton, Kidderminster, Scotch or common, felt or drugget, Persian, Turkish, African or Morocco, Indian, Silesian. Worsted Fabrics, all Wool. —Satteens, reps, cords, serges, mohairs, moreens, coatings, plainbacks, merinoes and sayes, Paramattas, camlets, bunting for flags, Albert cords, Persian cords, chene poplins, alpaca cloths, furniture stuffs and upholstery fabrics, plushes and velvets, tapestry curtains, Berlin woolwork, embroidery, fringes and trimmings of wool or mixed materials, gold-embroidered cloaks and tablecovers. Worsted Stuff's, mixed ivith Cotton Warps or other Materials. —Crapes, coburgs, barege, damasks (figured or fancy), taffetas, veloutine, bombazine, Paramatta, tammies, summer cloth, delaines, lastings, Canton cloths, Orleans cloths, chones, challies, lenos, checked poplins, fancy tweeds, gambroons, Irish poplins. Shawls. —Shetland, Austrian, Belgian, French, Cashmero (long and square) Union Cloths. Hosiery and Small Wares. ll.—Goats' Wool ob Mohair. Raio Wools. —Angora or mohair, Cashmere, Koork, Pashum or shawl wool of the Thibet goat common goats' wool, goats, skins with the wool on. Fabrics and Manufactures. —Dress fabrics, brilliantines, Utrecht velvet, mohair mixed fabrics, mohair lace and braids, goats' hair cloth, rugs, sacks, forensic wigs. lll.—Alpaca, Llama, and Vicuna. Raw wool of various colours, yarn and fabrics of alpaca, &c. IV. —Camels' Hair. Haw wool of different colours, shawl wool, shawls, carpets, tent-cloth. V.—Cow Hair. Ropes, sacks, blankets, carpets, felt (and other fabrics made of it), yak wool or hair, moose hair, and other hair. VI.—HORSE-lIAIR FEOM DIFPEEENT COUNTRIES. Drawn hair, fabrics made of it, horse-hair seating of different colours, horse-hair bags, horse-hair gloves and flesh-rubbers, horse-hair wigs, brushes, sieves. VII. —Human Hair. Various applications of it for twists and strong rope, hairwork and fancy ornaments, braids, wigs, and other coverings for the head, VIII. —Coney, oe Eabbits' Wool. Tarn and fabrics made of these wools, hare wool, economic applications, as hats and felted fabrics, hare-skin chest-protectors, caps, and clothing. IX. —Skins op Fur-bearing Animals, Rough and Peepaeed. Bear skins and articles made of them, buffalo robes, fur-seal skins (dressed and undressed), beaver skins, otter and sea otter, sable and ermine, marten and mink, fox and monkey skins, chinchilla, squirrel, and other minor fur-bearing animals, fur gloves, fur cloaks, fur muff's and boas, fur hats, carriage furs, skin mats. X.—Bird Skins and Feathers, fob Clothing, Ornament, oe Fabrics. Saw Materials. —Swan skin, goose skin, penguin skin, grebe, ostrich feathers, paddy feathers, marabou feathers, vulture (rhea) feathers, peacock feathers, egret plumes, birds of paradise, hummingbirds, other bright-plum aged birds. Prepared Applications.—Feather muffs, feather trimmings for dresses, feather jewellery, feather fans and fly-flappers, feather mats and rugs, feather plumes, feather flowers and ornaments, swansdown puffs, eiderdown quilts, and other economic applications of feathers. Xl.—Drawings, Paintings, Prints, and other Representations of tiie Wool- and Fuebeaeing Animals, and Birds yielding useful Feathers. XII. —Machinery, Implements, and Tools uskd in Woollen and Worsted Manufactures, WHETHER WORKED BY HAND OR BY POWER. Bleaching and Dyeing Materials. Descriptive Published Woeks and Statistical Tables, Prints, etc., describing Wool and Woollkn Manufactures and Occupations, or the Commerce in them, and those of Hair, Fur, Feathers, etc.

No. 2. The Hon. the Colonial Secretary to the Agent-General. Sib,— Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 19th October, 1880. I have the honor to inform you that your letter of the 13th August last, No. 705, with its enclosures, respecting an Exhibition of wool and manufactories, &c, which it is proposed to hold in the Crystal Palace in 1881, has been published in the New Zealand Gazette. I have, &c, The Agent-General for New Zealand, London. Thomas Dick,