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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette
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EXTRAORDINARY.
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Published by Authority.
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VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, 5TH MAY, 1886.
VOL. XXXII.
一十二第 日二初月四年戌丙 日五月五年六十八百八千一
簿二十三第
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 153.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government directs the publication of the following
telegrams received to-day.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th May, 1886.
From
THE PRINCE OF WALES
To
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
THE GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG.
In forwarding proceedings of opening ceremony of Colonial and Indian Exhibition by Her Majesty this day, I should be glad if you would publish them in special issue of Gazette.
COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION.
Address by His Royal Highness the Executive President, to Her Majesty The QUEEN on the occasion of the opening of the Exhibition.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,-As Executive President of the Royal Commissioners appointed by Your Majesty's Royal Warrant of the 8th of November, 1884, for the promotion of an Exhibition of the British Colonial and Indian Empire, subsequently incorporated by Her Majesty's Royal Charter of the 10th September, 1885, I humbly beg leave to lay before you a brief statement of our proceedings
p to the present time.
The general interest manifested in the display made by Your Majesty's Colonial and Indian Empire at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 led me, as President of the British Commission, to express a hope that an opportunity might soon occur by which Your Majesty's subjects in England would be enabled to witness the marvellous development which, under your beneficent rule, their brethren and fello subjects had attained throughout so many portions of the globe. It was therefore with the highest gratification that I accepted Your Majesty's gracious invitation to assume the executive Presi-
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