PARIS EXHIBITION.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 10th August, ISSG. The following despatch with enclosure, from Her Majesty's pr n ipal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information. E. W. Stafford. [circular.] Downing Street, 7th May, 1360. Sir, —With reference to previous correspondence, 1 transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Secretary and Executive Commissioner in this oouutry for the Palis Exhibition, 1807, suggesting that contributions should be obtained l'ioiii Her Majesty's various Colonies of the periodical ephemeral publications of each Colony for the year ISlio, in aid of a collection for that Exhibition. 1 have, kc Edward Cardweix. Governor Sir G. Grey, K.C.B. Mr Cole to the Under-Secretary of State. Paris Exhibition, ISO 7. South Kensington, 20th April, 18(50. 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 ISO", 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, play-bill, and the like, published during 1805. 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, Henry Cole. Secretary and Executive Commissioner. The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. No time should lie lost in forwarding specimens as above to the Superintendent's Oliiee, Dunedin. 11th September, 1806. John Logan, Secretary for Superintendent.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 231, 28 September 1866, Page 3
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