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ROIT

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 27.

No. 99.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH JUNE, 1866.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. XII.

The following Circular Despatch from The Right Honorable The SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, relative to the Paris Exhibition of 1867, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th June, 1866.

CIRCULAR.

W. H. RENNIE,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET, 7th May, 1866.

SIR, With reference to previous correspondence, I transmit to you a copy of a Letter from the Secretary and Executive Commissioner in this Country for the Paris Exhibition of 1867, suggesting that Contributions should be obtained from Her Majesty's various Colonies of the periodical and ephemeral Publications of each Colony for the year 1865, in aid of a collection for that Exhibition.-I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,

Governor Sir It. G. MacDonnell, C.B.,

Sc.,

&c.,

&c.

EDWARD CARDWELL.

Mr. Cole to the Under Secretary of State.

Paris Exhibition, 1867.

SOUTH KENSINGTON, 26th April, 1866.

SIR,I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to request you to inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that their Lordships have determined to have exhibited, in the Paris Exhibition of 1867, a collection illustrative of the periodical and ephemeral literature of the present time, which would include one specimen of every newspaper, journal, scientific, artistic, or literary magazine, review, or other periodical, tract, playbill and the like, published during 1865. My Lords are desirous that the literature of a similar character that has been published during the same period in each of Her Majesty's Colonies and Dependencies should be represented, and I am to request that you will move Mr. Secretary Cardwell to issue instructions to cause such a collection to be made in such colony, and sent to Paris; the same, when made, would be purchased by the Science and Art Department, for the South Kensington Museum.-I have, &c.

The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.

(Signed) HENRY COLE,

Secretary and Executive Commissioner,

No. 100.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

At the request of Captain JONES, Senior Naval Officer at Hongkong, the following Hydrographic Notice is published for the information of Mariners, and others whom it may concern.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th June, 1866.

W. H. RENNIE, Acting Colonial Secretary.