some specimens from the famous Lambeth factory of Messrs. Doulton and Co.,
who were most generous in their terms, sending samples of clay in the raw,
as prepared, and in various stages of modelling on the potter's wheel, up
to the finished article, ready for the furnace, as well as various
finished specimens, some showing the wonderful technical skill of the
skilled artisan and others that of the artists retained by that eminent
firm. Yesterday the committee received, in exchange for some Kileys, a
number of examples of the pottery in daily use by the Cingalese. These are
made of common clay that bakes red like ordinary flower-pots, and are of
archaic forms, that have been in use from time immemorial for the potter’s
wheel is the most ancient of machines. A few are ornamented with a glaze,
coloured with red ochre, either in lines or over the entire surface, and
others by lines incised by a pointed stick. Specimens of porcelain are
expected to arrive shortly from the famous factories of Bohemia ; while
the proprietors, Messrs. Brown, Westhead, and Moore, of the great China
works at Cauldron, near Stoke-upon-Trent, in the potteries district of
England, have made a handsome donation of their beautiful ware, which is
now on the way to Western Australia.

Wrought Iron.

Specimens of wrought iron have been ordered from two of the most
distinguished craftsmen of the age, Messrs. J. Starkie Gardiner and Nelson
Dawson, to show to craftsmen in the State what is being done in the great
centres of civilisation, and stimulate them to strive to excel their
fellow workers in the old country.