Report of Society's Meetings. 197 
The Secretary reported that the Agricultural and 
Commercial Committees had met and elecled Office- 
Bearers for 1892 as follows: — 
Agricultural Committee : Chairman, W. A. Wolseley, 
Vice-Chairman, S. M. Bellairs ; Secretary, J.Gillespie. 
Commercial Committee : Chairman, J, J. Dare; Vice- 
Chairman, W. H. Sherlock ; Secretary, Jacob Conrad. 
The Secretary laid over a draft of the following letter 
of condolence to the Queen and Royal Family on the 
death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale, which had 
been agreed to by the Committee appointed at the 
previous meeting : — 
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 
May it please your Majesty,— We, the President, Office-Bearers and 
Members of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British 
Guiana, desire to offer to your Majesty, our Patron, and to their Royal 
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, our heartfelt sympathy 
in the great affliftion which has fallen upon you and your Royal House 
by the death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and Avon- 
dale, in the early years of his manhood, and on the eve of a Happy 
Union full of the brightest promise for his future. 
We desire also to assure your Majesty, and their Royal Highnesses 
the Prince and Princess of Wales, that we share in the profound and 
universal sorrow with which the British Empire mourns the irreparable 
loss which you and Your Royal House, and the Nation at large, have 
sustained by his early death. 
° nbehalf >A. WEBER, President. 
™ ~° • \ GEO. GARNETT, Secretary. 
The Society. ) 3 
Georgetown, British Guiana. 
On the motion of Mr. Blair, seconded by Dr. Carroll 
it was ordered to be engrossed and forwarded through 
the Governor. Dr. Carroll said he could not help ex- 
pressing on behalf of the Government which he repre- 
sented, the deep sorrow and sympathy felt in con- 
