THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST APRIL, 1882.
The Foreign Office to the Colonial Office.
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FOREIGN OFFICE,
December 3rd, 1881.
SIR,--With reference to my letter of the 24th of September, I am directed by Earl Granville to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State, the accompanying copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Minister at the Hague respecting the Exhibition proposed to be held at Amsterdam
in 1883.
I am at the same time to forward the accompanying 200 copies of the general programme and of the programme of the First Section, which have been supplied by the Netherlands' Minister at this Court in accordance with the request made in your letter of the 31st of October last.
The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
I am, &c.,
(Signed)
T. V. LISTER.
Mr. Stuart to Earl Granville.
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No. 78. Commercial.
THE HAGUE,
November 28th, 1881.
MY LORD,With reference to your Lordship's despatch No. 45, Commercial, of the 14th instant, inquiring of me what Governments had accepted the invitation to take part in the Exhibition which it is proposed to hold at Amsterdam in 1883, I have the honour to state that Mr. Rochussen informed me this afternoon that he believed that the French, Italian, and United States' Governments had accepted, and that the Spanish Government had accepted for the Spanish Colonies.
No answer appears to have been received as yet from the Portuguese Government.
Mr. Rochussen reminded me that the German Government had declined to take part in the Paris and other Exhibitions, and that therefore their unwillingness to take part in the one to be held at Amsterdam was not to be wondered at.
His Excellency took the opportunity to tell me that the Netherlands' Government would be very grateful for any assistance which Her Majesty's Government might be disposed to render, with a view to contribute to the success of the above Exhibition, and expressed his earnest hope that both Great Britain and her Colonies would be well represented at it.
In the course of our conversation Mr. Rochussen observed, that it was perhaps unfortunate that so prominent a position had been given to the term Colonial in the description given in the programme of the Exhibition, as foreign nations had thereby been led erroneously to suppose that the Exhibition was to be rather of a Colonial than of a general character.
The Earl Granville, K.G., $e..
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&c.
I have, &c.,
(Signed)
W. STUART.
KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS.-CITY OF AMSTERDAM.
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF COLONIAL OBJECTS, AND OF GENERAL EXPORTATION.
May-1883-October.
GENERAL PROGRAMME.
The brilliant success achieved by the city of Amsterdam in obtaining a direct road of communication to the North Sea, and by which she has maintained her ancient reputation of being the first commercial city in the Kingdom, has given her a fresh stimulus to show renewed signs of life and energy in every department of human knowledge. A Committee, selected from the most influential men of the town, purpose to organize an International Exhibition of Colonial Objects and of General Exportation, for the year 1883.
One of the principal objects of this Exhibition will be to promote the interests of the Dutch Colonies as well as those of the Colonies of other nations, who, it is confidently expected, will gladly support and patronize this work.
London, Paris, Vienna and other important places, in the latter part of the present century, have successively collected at their Exhibitions the products of Trade and Industry, of Agriculture and Horticulture, of Science and Art, in a manner, calculated to raise the admiration of the whole world.
Of late years the great cities of the New World: Philadelphia, Sydney and Melbourne have successfully followed their example.
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