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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH JUNE, 1885.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 237.
The following Proceedings of the First Meeting of the Royal Commission, held at Marlborough House, London, on Monday, 30th March, 1885, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th June, 1885.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary,
COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION,
(LONDON, 1886).
Proceedings of the First Meeting of the Royal Commission, held at Marlborough
House, Monday, 30th March, 1885.
The Royal Commission appointed by Her Majesty the Queen for the purpose of organizing the above exhibition met for the first time on Monday, the 30th March, at Marlborough House, under the presidency of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The following members of the Commission were present:-Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Normanby, the Marquis of Lorne, the Marquis of Hamilton, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Dalhousie, Earl Cadogan, the Earl of Kimberley, the. Earl of Lytton, Viscount Bury, Field-Marshal Lord Strathnairn, the Hon. Edward Stanhope, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, M.P., the Right Hon. William Edward Forster, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, M.P., the Right Hon. Anthony John Mundella, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir Louis Mallet, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Henry Thurstan Holland, M.P., Sir Daniel Cooper, Sir John Rose, Field-Marshal Sir Patrick Grant, General Sir Frederick Paul Haines, Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Henry Brownlow, General Sir Edwin Beaumont Johnson, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Dominick Daly, Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel James Browne, Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert, Major-General Sir Frederick Richard Pollock, Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden, Sir Barrow Helbert Ellis, Lieutenant-General Sir D. Macnaghten Probyn, Surgeon-General Sir Joseph Fayrer, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Colonel Sir Owen Tudor Burne, Major-General Sir A. Clarke, General Sir Edward Selby Smyth, Sir Arthur Blyth (Agent-General for South Australia), Sir Charles Tupper (High Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada), Sir Francis Dillon Bell (Agent-General for New Zealand),. Sir Saul Samuel (Agent-General for New South Wales), Sir William Charles Sargeaunt (Crown Agent for the Colonies), Sir Charles Hutton Gregory, Sir John Coode, Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood, Colonel Henry Yule, Lieutenant-General Charles John Foster, Mr. John Arthur Godley, Mr. Horace George Walpole, Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey, Colonel James Michael, Colonel Arthur Edward Augustus Ellis, Mr. Charles Mills (Agent-General for the Cape of Good Hope), Mr. Arthur Hodgson, Captain Montagu Frederick Ommanney (Crown Agent for the Colonies), Mr. Robert Murray Smith (Agent-General for Victoria), Mr. James Francis Garrick (Agent-General for Queensland), the President of the Royal Agricultural Society, the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr. Henry Coppinger Beeton, Mr. Edward Birkbeck, M.P., Mr. Bertram Wodehouse Currie, Mr. William George Pedder, and Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen, secretary.
His ROYAL HIGHNESS ir opening the proceedings said,—
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
In addressing you for the first time, I would remind you that the objects for which Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint this Commission are, briefly, to organise and carry out an Exhibition by which the reproductive resources of our Colonies and of the Indian Empire may be brought before the people of Great Britain, and by which also the distant portions of Her Majesty's Dominions may be enabled to compare the advance inade by each other in trade, manufactures, and general material
progress.
This project, to the realisation of which I have looked forward for some years, is essentially one of a National and Imperial character, differing in this respect from former Exhibitions, in which the elements of trade rivalry and profit largely predominated.
No such opportunity of becoming practically acquainted with the economic condition of our Colonies and the Indian Empire has ever been afforded in this country. The attractive display in the Indian and Colonial Courts at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 could only be witnessed by a compara