, 1891-03-07
To Hrs ROYAL HIGHNEss.
PRINCE GEoGRE OF WALES X.

1871 Deg W JIG Y 1OuA AHOJoA ASAhS 800
most cordial thanks for the honor that you
have done our Island and the undertaking in
which we are interested by graciously con-
senting to be present and to open this Exhl-
bition. We gladly avail ourselves of this OPP
portunity Of once again welcoming Your Royal
Highness to this ancient colony your visits to
which on former occasions are still remember
ed with the greatest pleasure by the people
of Jamaica, who yield to none in the sentl-
ments of loyalty and devotion which they
cherish towards the Person and Throne OF her
Gracious Majesty the Queen.
We desire most humbly to express our
profound sense of gratitude to Her Majesty
the Queen for the interest which her
Majesty has been graciously pleased to ex-
press in our undertaking, and for sanctionin8
the loan of Pictures from the Royal collection.
We would also tender, and beg that your
ROYAL Highness will convey to His Royal
Highness the Prince Of Wales our most res
pectful thanks for the signal honor which he
has done us by acceding to the request of our
President and becoming the Patron Of this
Exhibition.
The original suggestion from which this
Exhibition took its rise was, by collecting and
disrlaying samples Of the Agricultural
Industrial and Commercial products Of the
Island, to arouse and foster a spirit of enter
prise and emulation among the inhabitants OF
Jamaica, and at the same time to
among the people of other countries a more
extensive knowledge Of the resources and
capabilities of the colony.
The spontaneous and liberal manner in
which funds for carrying out the enterprise
were guaranteed by the people of the colony
and those Interested in its welfare and the
ready response with which the invitation to
take part in the Exhibition was met by the
Mother Country, by the sister colonies
notably by Cana da-and by many Foreign
states, led to the enlargement of the original
scheme and has resulted in an Exhibition on
q larger scale, and of a more general and COM
prehensive character than that at first con-
templated by it's originators.
Every effort has been made to render the ia
maican Exhibits a complete and representative
collection of the agricultural, mineral and IN
dustrial products Of the Island and we
would venture respectfully to express a hope
that, as such, they will be found by Your
Royal Highness to possess features OF novelty
and interest.
We avail ourselves Of this opportunity
gratefully to acknowledge the ready and
generous support in the shape Of Exhibits,
which the Commissioner have received from
other countries. The varied and instructive
Exhibits displayed by foreign contributors
cannot Iall TO possess IOt InG pcbplc VI CnlS
colony a special interest as being the first col
lection of the kind which they have had an OPP
portunity of inspecting, and viii, we feel CON
fdent, prove highly instructive and conduco
to material advance and Improvement in the
handicrafts and industries Of the Island.
In conclusion we would venture to express
the hope that in opening this, the latest of
the long series of Exhibitions which have taken
their origin from the Great Exhibition of
1851, with which the memory of the lamcn-
ted Prince Consort must ever b. associated,
Your Royal Highness may be introducing an
era of renewed and increased prosperity Tor an
Island whose special pride it is that our
beloved Queen should bear among her titles
that of Supreme Lady of Jamaica.
His Royal Highness Prince George said =
Ladies and gentlemen I thank you most
cordially for the manner in which you have
welcomed me amongst you to-day and can
assure you that l am profoundly touched by
the loyal feelings you have expressed towards
Her Majesty the Queen and the kindly interest
Won have sheSyn towards myself. | am ex-
fremely gratifed that am enabled to have
the honor to represent my father on such an
occasion as this and l know that it gave him
the greatest pleasure to a2cede to the request
of the President to become the patron OF this
Exhibition. This magnificent buidlng, the
wide aud varied character of the EXHIBITS,
not only those of the Island but Of all parts Of
Az ~ror1d 4oCtifv IN tho most upmietakeah1a