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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH OCTOBER, 1893.

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Letter of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government to the Governors of all British Colonies.

Government House,

Hobart,

22nd April, 1893.

I have the honour to forward to Your Excellency a copy of a letter addressed to the Honourable the Premier of this Colony by the Secretary of the Hobart International Exhibition Association, asking me to inform the various Colonial Governments of the British Empire that an International Exhibition will be held at Hobart in the years 1894-1895.

At the instance of my Government, I beg to invite Your Excellency's Government to take steps to secure the repre- sentation of the Products and Manufactures of your Colony at the proposed Exhibition, and I hope that Your Excellency will be so good as to extend your valuable aid in promoting the success of the undertaking.

I have the honour to be,

Copy.

His Excellency

The Governor.

ENCLOSURE.

Your Excellency's most obedient Servant,

(Signed) W. L. DOBSON.

No. 99.

SIR,

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, HOBART, 1894-1895.

Hobart, Tasmania,

17th April, 1893.

I have the honour to request that you will be good enough to bring under the notice of His Excellency the Adminis- trator the fact that it has been decided to hold an International Exhibition of Arts, Industries, Manufactures, and the Pro- ducts of the Soil, Mine, and Sea, in the City of Hobart, opening on 15th November, 1894, and that the project has the sanction of the Tasmanian Parliament and the immediate patronage of the Government. Also, to request that you will ask His Excellency to communicate with the Governors of the various Colonies of the British Empire inviting them to take part in the Exhibition by appointing Representatives thereto, and by sending such Exhibits as may most fitly and fully illustrate their Resources, their Commerce, their Industries, and their progress in civilisation.

I have also to request that you will take such steps as may be necessary to apprise Foreign Countries of the Exhibition, and invite them to co-operate by appointing Commissioners and sending Exhibits.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient Servant.

THOS. C. JUST, Secretary.

The Honourable

The Premier.

Copy.

Letter of the Hon, the Premier inviting Foreign Exhihits.

No. 83.

Premier's Office,

Hobart,

SIR,

29th April, 1893.

I have the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a letter addressed to me by the Secretary to the Hobart Inter- national Exhibition Association, respecting the Exhibition to be held in this City during the season of 1894-95.

Ministers are desirous of giving every possible support to this undertaking, and, with the object of endeavouring to obtain Exhibits illustrative of the Products and Manufactures of Foreign Countries, I have now to request that you will be- so good as to take the earliest opportunity of placing yourself in communication with the Representatives in London of all the European Powers, of the United States of America, and of other Foreign Countries, inviting them to take steps to secure the appointment, by their respective Governments, of Commissioners to this Exhibition for the purpose of organizing effective measures for the representation of their Countries.

I enclose copy of a Prospectus showing the object and scope of the Exhibition.

SIR E. BRADDON, K.C.M.G.,

Agent-General for Tasmania,

LONDON.

I have, etc.,

(Signed)

HENRY DOBSON.