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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1869.
THEATRE.
Persons visiting the Theatre on any occasion when His Royal Highness is expected to be present, are requested to wear uniform if entitled to do so.
Chairs must set down from the East side of the Fountain, and take up from the West side. Empty Chairs will be arranged by the Police in two parallel lines down Queen's Road to the West, also, down Wardley Street, and must come to the Theatre door in turn.
Neither Carriages, nor Horses, will be permitted to stand in the Queen's Road, or in the South end of Wardley Street.
Foreign Community:-Where to be accommodated.
Chinese Females and Children:- Where to be accommodated.
Empty Chairs: -Where to be disposed.
FIREWORKS.
The Cathedral enclosure will be reserved for the European and American Community.
The S.W. Angle of the Parade Ground will be railed off for Chinese Women and Children; who will enter the enclosure from the Upper East Corner of the Ground.
Chinese Coolies will not be permitted to pass along the Upper Approaches to the Ground.
Empty Chairs will wait in Wardley Street, the Street leading to Government Wharf, and, on the Road leading to Head Quarter-House.
N.B.-The Rule of the Road must, in all cases, be strictly observed, when practicable.
ILLUMINATIONS.
The Governor hopes the Community will assist as extensively as possible in the projected illuminations, which, if the weather permits, will take place on the date of His Royal Highness' arrival in Hongkong, and not on that of his Public Reception, provided the day of his arrival be not Sunday, and provided His Royal Highness arrives before 4 P.M., so that notice may be given to the Community.
No. 126.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Circular Despatch from The Right Honorable EARL GRANVILLE, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, relative to the International Exhibition to be held in London in 1871, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd October, 1869.
Circular.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET, 24th August, 1869.
SIR,-At the request of Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhibition of 1851, I transmit to you, for your information, a copy of a communication which I have received from them, enclosing a copy of an announcement of the first of a series of International Exhibitions of selected specimens of Art and Industry which it is intended shall be held in London-in the year 1871; and I have to request that you will take such measures as may be necessary for giving publicity to that announcement within the Colony under your Government.-I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient humble Servant,
Governor
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SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,
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&c., HONGKONG.
&c.
Lieut. Col. Scott to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
GRANVILLE.
OFFICE OF HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1851,
5, UPPER KENSINGTON GORE, W., 10th August, 1869.
SIR, I am directed by Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, to transmit, for the information of the several British Colonies, copies of the announcement of the first of the series of International Exhibitions of selected Specimens of Art and Industry, which it is intended shall be held in London in 1871, and to request that you will move the Earl Gran- ville to cause them to be forwarded to each Colony as early as convenient.
Her Majesty's Commissioners desire me to point out that these Exhibitions will be on a comparatively limited scale, that the objects sent from each Colony will not be arranged together as heretofore, but in their proper classes, and that it is desired that Manufacturers should exhibit only a single specimen of each object.