DIEU
DROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 23.
No. 60.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1861.
VOL. VII.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The Honorable FREDERICK FORTH, Esquire, M.L.C., has this day resumed his functions as Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th June, 1861.
No. 61.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
In continuation of Government Notification No. 39 of 19th April last, His Excellency The Governor directs the publication of the following Circular froin the Secretary to the Commissioners for the International Exhibition, 1862.
A Committee will shortly be nominated to consider the representation of the Colony in the above Exhibition.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th June, 1861.
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862.
Her Majesty's Commissioners. THE EARL GRANVILLE, K.G., Chairman.
THE MARQUIS OF CHANDOS. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
C. WENTWORTH DILKE, Esq. THOMAS FAIRBAIRN, Esq.
F. R. SANDFORD, Secretary,
OFFICES, 454, WEST STRAND, LONDON, W.C., April, 1861. SIR,--With reference to the printed "Decisions" of Her Majesty's Commissioners which have already reached your Excellency through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, I am now instructed to enter into some further explanations, for the information of the gentlemen, in the Colony under your Government, who may undertake the duty of forming a Collection for the International Exhibition in 1862.
In the first place, it would facilitate the arrangements here if the appointment of the Commission or Central Authority referred to in the "Decisions" were to take place at as early a period as practicable.
Your Excellency will have remarked, that no article will be admitted from the Colonies without the sanction of such Commission or Central Authority, and it is important that Her Majesty's Commissioners should know with whom they can officially correspond. Upon this point 1 am instructed further to observe, that it is highly desirable, in the interests of the Colonies, that whoever may be nominated as Agent in this country, should be a man of business, well acquainted with the resources of the Colony he represents.
The lists of articles admissible are so ample as to include every kind of produce, raw or manufactured, with only the three specified exceptions. With regard to one of these, viz., “fresh vegetables and animal substances liable to spoil by keeping," it seems desirable to explain that the term "fresh" is to be literally interpreted; therefore articles of export, in whatever manner prepared, so as to keep without undergoing change, will be admissible.
Produce such as Wine, or other articles the result of fermentation, now admissible, although excluded from the Exhibition of 1891, will be submitted to the judgment of a Special Jury, who will decide upon their respective merits,
In the article of Timber, the specimens should in all cases be converted into plank or seantling, of such a size as to show its mercantile value. If possible they should be four inches thick, and ent so as to show the "sap" on both edges. Moreover, since there is great uncertainty as to the origin of much Colonial Timber, it will be very desirable that each kind of timber should be accompanied by a few twigs showing its leaves and flowers, when procurable. If the latter are pressed between sheets of paper enclosed in boards, they will furnish the evidence required.
Each Colony will have a separate space-assigned to it in which to exhibit its products, distinct from that of other Colonies. It is, however, the wish of Her Majesty's Commissioners also to classify Colonial Raw Produce. bringing all Textile Materials, all Minerals, and so on, into one general comparative view; and they therefore invite Exhibitors to furnish, when practieuble. duplicate specimens for that purpose.
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