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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH JANUARY, 1887.
Our right trusty and well-beloved Henry, Baron Thring; Knight Commander of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath;
Our right trusty and well-beloved Councillor Edward Stanhope (commonly called the Honourable Edward Stanhope), Our Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies;
Our right trusty and well-beloved Councillor Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, Knight Grand Commander of Our Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Knight Commander of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of Our Order of the Indian Empire, one of the Under Secretaries of State to Our Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Our right trusty and well-beloved Councillor Sir Henry Thurstan Holland, Baronet, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Vice-President of Our Committee of Council on Education;
Our right trusty and well-beloved Councillor Sir John Rose, Baronet, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George;
Our trusty and well-beloved Charles William Fremantle, Esquire (commonly called the Honourable Charles William Fremantle), Companion of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Our trusty and well-beloved Sir Frederick Leighton, Baronet, President of the Royal Academy; Our trusty and well-beloved Sir Richard Owen, Knight Commander of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath;
Our trusty and well-beloved Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe-Owen, Knight Commander of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of Our Order of the Indian Empire;
Our trusty and well-beloved Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Knight Commander of Our Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Companion of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Doctor of Medicine;
Our trusty and well-beloved Sir John Gilbert, Knight;
O trusty and well-beloved Sir James Dromgale Linton, Knight; and
Our trusty and well-beloved John Fretcheville Dykes Donnelly, Esquire, Companion of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Colonel on the Retired List of Our Army; Greeti
Whereas it has been notified to Us, through Our Secretary of State for the Colonies that an International Exhibition is to be held in Adelaide, in Our Colony of South Australia, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven :
And whereas it is Our wish that the Manufacturing Industry Agriculture, and Fine Arts of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of Our Colonies and Dependencies in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and in the remaining portions of Australasia, shall be fully and suitably represented at this Exhibition:
Now know ye, that We, considering the premises, and earnestly desiring to promote the success of the said Exhibition, and reposing great trust and confidence in your fidelity, discretion, and integrity, have authorized and appointed, and by these presents do authorize and appoint you, Our said dear Cousin and Councillor George William Frederic Charles, Duke of Cambridge; together with you the said William Drogo, Duke of Manchester; George Augustus Constantine, Marquess of Normanby; Archibald Philip, Earl of Rosebery; Henry Howard Molyneux, Earl of Carnarvon; Windham Thomas, Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl; Granville George, Earl Granville; Richard Assheton, Viscount Cross; Henry, Baron Thring; Edward Stanhope (commonly called the Honourable Edward Stanhope); Sir James Fergusson; Sir Henry Thurstan Holland; Sir John Rose; Charles William Freemantle (commonly called the Honourable. Charles William Freemantle); Sir Frederick Leighton; Sir Richard Owen; Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe-Owen; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Sir John Gilbert, Sir James Dromgale Linton; and John Fretcheville Dykes Donnelly, to be Our Commissioners to obtain and distribute full information as to the best mode by which the products of the Manufacturing and Agri- cultural Industry and the Fine Arts of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Qur Colonies and Dependencies, may be procured and forwarded for exhibition, to assist with their advice and co- operation, and generally to promote the success of the said Exhibition in South Australia:
And Our further will and pleasure is that you, or any three or more of you, when and so often as need or occasion shall require, so long as this Our Commission shall continue in force, do report to Us, in writing under your hands and seals respectively, all and every the several proceedings of your- selves had by virtue of these presents :
And lastly, We do by these presents ordain that this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue until the close of the said Exhibition, and that you Our said Commissioners, or any three or more of you, shall and may from time to time, and at any place or places, proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment; and for the purpose of aiding you in such matters We hereby appoint Our trusty and well-beloved Sir Herbert Bruce Sandford, Knight, Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel on the Retired List of Our Army, to be Secretary to this Our Commission.
Given at Our Court at Saint James's the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-six, in the fiftieth year of Our reign.
By Her Majesty's Command,
Henry Matthews.