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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 3.

No. 10.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH JANUARY, 1866.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. XII.

Is Excellency the ACTING GOVERNOR has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Circular Despatch from the Right Honorable The SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES on the subject of the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867.

Any communication on the subject with which this Government may be favored will receive

immediate attention.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th January, 1866.

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

CIRCULAR (2.)

DOWNING STREET, 10th November, 1865.

SIR--I have the honor to transmit to you, for your information and guidance, the enclosed Copy of a Correspondence between the Committee of Council on Education and this Department on the subject of the Representation of the British Colonies in the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867.

It is on every account to be wished that Her Majesty's Possessions may be well represented in the approaching Exhibition, and I have to request that you will take measures for ascertaining whether the inhabitants of the Colony under your government desire to be so represented. If this should be the case, you will observe that the first step will be to appoint A Committee of Superintendence and a Special Commissioner, to conduct the correspondence with this country.-I have the I not to be, Sir, Your most obedient, hunible Servant,

The Officer administering the Government of Hongkong.

EDWARD CARDWELL.

Mr. Henry Cole to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.

COUNCIL OF EDUCATION, KENSINGTON MUSEUM, October 9th, 1865. SIR-I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to transmit one hundred copies of the general regulations and classification issued by the Imperial Commission for the guidance of intending exhibitors in the International Exhibition to be held in Paris in 1867, and a list of the several amounts of space which it is proposed to allot

to each colony.

It being important that the colonies should be well represented, my Lords request that you will move Mr. Cardwell to e, as early as convenient, such steps as he may consider necessary for drawing the attention of each colony to these ulations, &c., and direct me to observe, that in making known the space offered, it should be distinctly understood that proposed allotment in each case is nett space, exclusive of passage room, for which ample provision has been made, and equently the entire space offered may be filled with goods.

My Lords suggest that each colony should form a Committee having sufficient experience, and invested with authority, secure a due representation of the industry and resources of the colony; and that it should place one special Executive missioner in direct communication with the Science and Art Department at South Kersington,

It is desirable that each Colony should inform the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, with as little delay posible, if it will undertake to fill the space offered; and if not, to state what diminution in the space may be made.