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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH JANUARY, 1866.
The Imperial Commission having decided upon a particular mode of arrangement into classes and groups, which is set forth in the regulations, the same principle of arrangement will be adopted by Great Britain, and it will be necessary that the colonies also conform to it. My Lords direct me to request, therefore, that the Executive Commissioner from each colony should transmit before the 1st August, 1866, to the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, the space which the colony proposes to occupy, divided into the respective ten groups (which several divisions will be taken as the bases for the final arrangement in the Exhibition building and park), together with a list of the names and addresses of the exhibitors in My Lords request that all letters from the colonies may be addressed to the Secretary, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London.—I have &c.,
each class.
The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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HENRY COLE.
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Sir F. Rogers to II. Cole, Esq., C.B.
Downing Street, 16th October, 1865.
SIR,-In reply to your letter of the 9th instant, enclosing, for transmission to certain colonies specified in an accompany- ing list, copies of General Regulations and Classification issued by the Imperial Commission, for the guidance of intending exhibitors in the International Exhibition, to be held in Paris in 1867; I am directed by Mr. Secretary Cardwell to express to you his readiness to forward to the Governors of the colonies nained in your list, copies of your letter, and of the printed regulations therein enclosed; but I am at the same time to observe, that while the list includes very small colonies, others of the same or larger importance are omitted from that list. Mr. Cardwell has, therefore, thought it safest to enquire whether the omissions were, in all respects, intentional. I annex a list showing the colonies excluded from that enclosed in letter. Mr. Cardwell directs me to suggest whether it may not be convenient to allot a certain proportion of space to the follow- ing groups of colonies, viz.:
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1. Windward Islands; containing Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Tobago.
2. Leeward Islands; containing Antigua, St. Christopher, Dominica, Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Nevis."
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3. West Africa Settlements, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Gold Coast, Lagos. Placing the subdivision in the hands of some committee or officer at Barbadoes, Antigua, and Sierra Leone, respectively.
Sierra Leone has recently set on foot an Industrial Exhibition of its own.
The Committee of Council will, of course, understand that Mr. Cardwell makes these suggestions on the supposition that.. they may not have had fully before them the circumstances and relations of the different colonies when their allotment of space was made. Whatever the decision of the Committee may be, he will most readily make the necessary communication to the colonies. I am &c.
Henry Cole, Esq., C.B.,
je, $c., gc.,
Council on Education,
Kensington Museum.
List of Omitted Colonies.
Falkland Islands,
Turks Islands,
Grenada,
Tobago,
Saint Lucia,
Antigua, Montserrat,
Saint Christopher, Nevis,
Virgin Islands,
Gibraltar, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Gold Coast, Lagos,
British Kaffraria,
Heligoland,
Hong Kong, Labuan, and Norfolk Island.
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(Signed) F. ROGERS.
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Mr. Henry Cole to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, SOUta Kensington, 21st October, 1865.
SIR,-I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th instant, transmitting a list of the names of certain colonies which have been omitted in the awards of space for the International Exhibition to be held at Paris in 1867:
I am to observe that in apportioning the space to the different colonies, my Lords were guided by the requirements as shown in the International Exhibitions which were held at Paris in 1855, and in London in 1862. No articles from any of the colonies mentioned in the list accompanying your letter were exhibited in either of those Exhibitions.
My Lords are, however, desirous that every British colony should be represented in the forthcoming Exhibition to be held at Paris in 1867, but as they have no data by which they can ascertain the requirements of those colonies which have not previously exhibited, they do not consider that it would be advisable to allot any fixed amount of space to them, but will be prepared to receive for exhibition any articles which may be forwarded to them through a properly accredited agency.
Their Lordships thank Mr. Secretary Cardwell for his suggestion respecting the grouping together of certain of the colonies for better and more convenient representation, and I am to request that you will inove Mr. Cardwell to take the necessary steps for obining the appointment of Committees for-
1. The Windward Is
2. The Leeward Islands.
3. The West Africa Settlements.