1000.
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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OTH MAI
presence of any his Successor holding the appointment of Procurator, in Hongkong, for the Dominican Mission in the Far East, or his Attorney duly authorised and shall also be signed by the said Very Reverend FERNANDO SAINZ or his said Attorney or by his said Successor or his said Attorney.
4. Nothing herein contained shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, ber heirs or successors, or of any bodies politic, or corporate, or other persons, except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance, and those claiming by, from, or under them.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of April, 1886.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 7th day of May, 1886.
Hights of the Crown re- berved.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, No. 153.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government directs the publication of the following elegrams received to-day.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th May, 1886.
From
THE PRINCE OF WALES
Το
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
THE GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG.
In forwarding proceedings of opening ceremony of Colonial and Indian Exhibition by Her Majesty this day, I, should be glad if you would publish them in special issue of Gazette.
LONIAL
COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION.
Address by His Royal Highness the Executive President, to Her Majesty The QUEEN on the occasion of the opening of the Exhibition.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,-As Executive President of the Royal Commissioners appointed by Your Majesty's Royal Warrant of the 8th of November, 1884, for the promotion of an Exhibition of the British Colonial and Indian Empire, subsequently incorporated by Her Majesty's Royal Charter of the 10th September, 1885, I humbly beg leave to lay before you a brief statement of our proceedings up to the present time.
The general interest manifested in the display made by Your Majesty's Colonial and Indian Empire at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 led mc, as President of the British Commission, to express a hope that an opportunity might soon occur by which Your Majesty's subjects in England would be enabled to witness the marvellous development which, under your beneficent rule, their brethren and fellow subjects had attained throughout so many portions of the globe. It was therefore with the highest gratification that I accepted Your Majesty's gracious invitation to assume the executive Presi-