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visitors of importance, concerning our exhibits, and colony, and its 
capabilities as regards sugar, fruit, timber, fibres, gold, etc, etc. I 
cannot help believing that substantial good will result in our represen- 
tation at this exhibition. I have given references to many of our local 
firms for articles of different kinds; and time upon time, merchants and 
others wait upon me to get detailed information as to our trade, &c. Our 
high grade sugars attraét a lot of attention and the white sugars of 
plantation Perseverance particularly have called forth special enquiries, 
One merchant is very strong on this sugar, believing that there might 
_ bea very large trade in it if the protective duties were dune away with, 
and he thinks that with the reciprocity treaty between two countries, 
this point ought to be secured. 
As you will see from the various clippings I have sent, the newspapers 
give us very good notices—free of all charge—not only papers of 
Chicago, but also of Canada and New York. One of the extracts | 
send is from the New York Fournal of Commerce and Bulletin, one of 
the greatest, if not the greatest of the American trade Journals. The 
Business Register and Trade Yournal of Chicago, and the North. Western 
Lumberman have also given us good accounts. The worst of all these 
accounts is that there are little inaccuracies in most of them, bat as 
they never submit proofs of what they write, there are no chances of 
correcting, We are thus being fairly well advertised; and not the 
least effeCtive way is by my prompt attendance at all sorts of functions, 
lunches, dinners, banquets, receptions, and meetings where Commis- 
sioners are invited, for wherever I go the papers of course note the 
attendance, and British Guiana is thus noticed. More than this 
my name has been specially in the papers here as Commissioner 
tor British Guiana over three separate exhibition matters. In 
the first, over the failure of the branch bank opened under the 
auspices of the Administration of the Fair, I expressed the opinion 
pretty strongly that thé Administration were responsible for the 
funds deposited under their guarantee, the papers took it up, with 
the result that the Administration paid up our deposits and took 
over the liabilities, as in honour they were bound to do. The second 
time, over the Jury of Awards of which you have been already advised ; 
and thirdly over the recent arrest of one of the Foreign Commissioners 
owing to the stupidity of a guard. In all these matters the Commis- 
sioners support one another, and the papers publish everything ; and we 
got the advertisement by their specially recording the opinion of 
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