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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD APRIL, 1898.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 181. The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th April. 1898.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

26th February, 1898.

SIR, With reference to my Circular despatch of the 7th September, 1896, respecting the Universal International Exhibition to be held in Paris in 1900, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information in the Colony under your Government, copies of a Royal Commission, dated the 1st instant, appointing Commissioners to advise upon the best mode by which the Products of Industry Agriculture and the Fine Arts of the United Kingdom and the British Colonies and Dependencies may be procured and sent to the Exhibition.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

Extract from The London Gazette" of Tuesday, February 8, 1898.

Whitehall, February 7, 1898.

THE Queen has been pleased to issue a Commission under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual to the following effect:

VICTORIA, R.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, to-

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Whereas it has been notified unto Us, through Our Principal Secretary for State for Foreign Affairs, that the President of the French Republic has decreed that an Universal International Ex- hibition of the Works of In lustry and Agriculture as well as of the Fine Arts shall be held at Paris in the year one thousand nine hundred:

And whereas it is Our wish that such Exhibition shall afford full and suitable representations of the Industry. the Agriculture, and the Fine Arts in Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Our Colonies and Dependencies in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Australasia, and that Our Subjects shall take part in such Exhibition :

Now know ye, tint We, considering the premises, and carnestly desiring to promote the success of the said Exhibition, and reposing great trust and confidence in your fidelity, discretion, and integrity, have authorized and appointed, and by these Presents do authorize and appoint, you Our said Most Dear Son and Councillor His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. President; Our said Most Dearly Beloved Grandson and Councillor His Royal Highness Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of York; together with you the said Spencer Compton, Duke of Devonshire; Alexander William George, Duke of Fife; Henry Charles Keith, Marquess of Lansdowne: Sir John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, commonly called Marquess of Lorne; Frederick Arthur, Earl of Derby; Victor Albert George, Earl of Jersey; George Henry, Earl Cadogan;