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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST JANUARY, 1882.
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solemn ceremonies observed at his order would hardly have so occurred; and it is further desired that you assure him that of the countless manifestations of good will and sympathy by communities and officials the world over, not one has been more fully appreciated than those reported by you as having been publicly made at his instance.
Your own course, upon receipt of the sorrowful intelligence, reported by you in the despatch herein adverted to, is approved and commended.
JOHN S. MOSBY, Esq.,
Consul of the United States,
HONGKONG.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed)
WALKER BLAINE, Third Assistant Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. --No. 18.
The following prospectus respecting the Netherlands Exhibition of 1883 is published for general information.
By His Excellency's Command,
M. S. TONNOCITY, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 21st January. 1882.
KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS.
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
OF
COLONIAL AND TROPICAL PRODUCE, GENERAL COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, FINE ARTS, PAST AND PRESENT, UNIVERSAL SCIENCE.
AMSTERDAM
MAY 1883
OCTOBER.
This Exhibition will take place at Amsterdam (Holland) in buildings specially crected for the purpose. It will be opened in May 1883, and closed in October of the same year,
The following is a résumé of the
GENERAL PROGRAMME
The Exhibition comprises five great divisions viz :
I
COLONIAL EXHIBITION.
II EXHIBITION FOR GENERAL EXPORT-TRADE.
III
IV
EXHIBITION FOR FINE ARTS OF PAST AND PRESENT TIMES AND ART applied to Industry
IN GENERAL.
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS.
V CONFERENCES, INTERNATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC.
I
One of the principal features of this International Exhibition will be the Colonial Part. The comparative study of different systems of colonisation, of Colonial or Tropical agriculture, the manners and customs of the natives of ultra-marine countries, their industries, means of transport, etc. will promote the knowledge of all that has been done or remains yet to be done, in order to promote industrial trade and transactional intercourse with these countries.
Samples and productions of the Fauna and the Flora of the tropical regions, as specimens of the fertility and variety of these climes, must not be wanting.
Under this division are also comprised:
THE NAVY, by which denomination is understood every thing relating to the navigation on the sea, on lakes and rivers, shipbuilding, the fitting out of ships, the construction of harbours and light houses, life-boats and salvage, and the relief of the sick and wounded at sea.
THE ARMY, which includes all objects and contrivances belonging to the equipment of the army
and the relief of the sick and wounded soldier on land.
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