Inclosure / in Desp
Jp 16 ar
1850
of the monstry of the objects of the Exhibition Committees for promoting the Hongkong and Canton
Correspondence
Nations.
all
June and July, 1858.
EXHIBITION OF 1851 OF THE INDUS- TRY OF ALL NATIONS.
The Committee beg to direct the attention of the Community to the accompanying letter from H. E. the Governor, suggesting that moderate subscriptions should be raised in aid of the Build- ing required at home for the display of the articles to be exhibited.
The Committee will be glad if the Community will "avail [themselves]" of this opportunity of attesting their sense of the importance and value of the undertaking, and of giving some proof of their good wishes for its success.
A. CAMPBELL,
J. F. EDGER.
(Mr Stuart and Mr Bush absent.)
Hongkong, 30th August, 1850.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG
30th August, 1830. The Governor has learnt with much pleasure that, during his absence from Hongkong, a com- mittee was formed for the purpose of carrying out the views of H. M.'s Commissioners for the Exhibition of Industry of all Nations, to be held in England in 1851, by instituting enquiries as to the possibility of sending home any articles from Hongkong, which might represent its produce or manufactures. He much fears that nothing of the above description is procurable in the Colony; for the reception of whose contributions, never- theless, 1000 square feet have been set apart by H. M.'s Commissioners; and is consequently his intention, unless he hears from the Committee, or other quarters, that there is ground to hope that the Colony may contribute something to the Exhibition, to request H. M.'s principal Secretary of State for the Colonies to inform the Commis- sioners of the inability of this Island to furnish any article worthy their acceptance, in order that the portion of ground allotted to it may be de- voted to the produce of some more favoured colony or country, the greater wealth of which may require extension of the space originally marked off for it.
The Governor would at the same time much regret that H. R. H. Prince Albert, and the other personages who take an interest in the success of his enterprise, should be left to suppose that their enthusiasm is in no degree shared by the inhabitants of Hongkong; and he therefore proposes to them to join with him in responding to the invitation of the Commissioners who have not omitted to assign to this small settlement a sufficiently honourable place. He observes that, in England, some of the larger towns, which boast neither arts nor manufactures, have testified their approbation of the scheme of the Exhibi- tion, and their zeal for its furtherance, by raising moderate subscriptions in aid of the building re- quired for the display of articles to be exhibited, or of the general expenses of the undertaking,—a convenient precedent, to the imitation of which he would invite the inhabitants of this Colony, each according to his means.
The Governor therefore forwards this memorandum of his proposal to the Local Committee, with a request that, if they concur with him therein, they will have the goodness to take such steps as they deem necessary to give it general circulation amongst the Community.
S. G. BONHAM.
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Inclosure / in Desp
Jp 16 ar
1850
of the monstry of the objects of the Exhibition Committees for promoting the Hongkong and Canton
Correspondence
Nations.
all
June and July, 1858.
EXHIBITION OF 1851 OF THE INDUS- TRY OF ALL NATIONS.
The Committee beg to direct the attention of the Community to the accompanying letter from H. E. the Governor, suggesting that moderate subscriptions should be raised in aid of the Build- ing required at home for the display of the articles to be exhibited.
The Committee will be glad if the Community will" "avail [themselves]"of this opportunity of attesting their sense of the importance and value of the undertaking, and of giving some proof of their good wishes for its success.
A. CAMPBELL,
J. F. EDGER.
(Mr Stuart and Mr Bush absent.)
Hongkong, 30th August, 1850.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONO
30th August, 1830. The Governor has learut with much pleasure that, during his absence from Hongkong, a com- mittee was formed for the purpose of carrying out the views of H. M.'s Coinmissioners for the Exhibition of Industry of all Nations, to be held in Eugland in 1853, by iustituting enquiries as to the possibility of sending home any articles from Hongkong, which might represent its produce or manufactures. He much fears that nothing of the above description is procurable in the Colony; for the reception of whose contributions, never- theless, 1000 square feet have been set apart by H. M.'s Commissioners; and is consequently his intention, unless he hears from the Committee, or other quarters, that there is ground to hope that the Colony may contribute something to the Exhibition, to request H. M.'s principal Secretary of State for the Colonies to inform the Commis- sioners of the inability of this Island to furnish any article worthy their acceptance, in order that the portion of ground allotted to it way be de- voted to the produce of some more favoured colouy or country, the greater wealth of which may require extension of the space originally marked off for it.
The Governor would at the same time much regret that H. R. H. Prince Albert, and the other personages who take an interest in the success of his enterprise, should be left to suppose that their enthusiasm is in no degree shared by the inhabitants of Hongkong; and he therefore proposes to them to join with him in responding to the invitation of the Commissioners who have not omitted to assign to this small settlement a sufficiently honourable place. He observes that, in England, some of the larger towns, which boast neither arts nor manufactures, have testified their approbation of the scheme of the Exhibi- tion, and their zeal for its furtherance, by raising moderate subscriptions in aid of the building re- quired for the display of articles to be exhibited, or of the general expenses of the undertaking,—a convenient precedent, to the imitation of which he would invite the inhabitants of this Colony, each according to his meaus.
The Governor therefore forwards this memoran įdum of his proposal to the Local Committee, withi a request that, if they concur with him therein, they will have the goodness to take such steps as they deem necessary to give it general circulation amongst the Community.
S. G. BONHAM.
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