row 4 Comesroxnest Macao is to receive a visit from Sir Miles Lampson, Minister for Great Britain to Peking, who has speed the invitation extended to him by Senhor Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa, Governor of Macao. This will be the first occasion on which the Portuguese Colony has received such a visit, and, though late in the 18th Century,' Lord Macartney and, early in the 19th Century, Lord Amherst, acting respectively as Ambassadors en route to Peking, stayed at Macao, it is over 100 years since a visit of this importance has been made Sir Miles Lampson will be accompanied by a small number of members of his suite and Will make the trip over to Macao on Wednesday, February 22, in HAMS, Tarantula, reaching the Portuguese Port about noon. The British Minister and his party will be the guests of the Governor during their stay at Macao and will leave on the following morning for Canton. merican Exposition Instructions have been received at Macao from the Minister for the Colonies at Lisbon that Macao should be well represented at the ie. The Exposition will be confined to Spain and Portugal and their respective colonies, well as the ex-colonies of Spain in South America. Of the probable exhibitors Maeno most likely will be the only representative of the Far East, and the exhibit should be At a meeting to select a working: committee, held at Government House, some very helpful sugge tions wore brought forward. One by Mr. F. W. Carey, Commissioner of Lappa Customs, was exceptional-Ty good. He proposed that a fall-size reproduction in plaster of Camoens's Grotto, ay it stands at Macao, should be made at the entrance to the Macao Pavilion, with the mural tablets and the bust to fill an important place as a Social centre. Tea dances and dinner dances have become 8 feature of the social entertainments provided, and visitors to Macao find this fine hostelry a great convenience. It is believed that two Parties of tourists expected next month will be guided in their visit to Macao by the hotel staff, The Leal Sena The Government Council Macao, with the object of granting greater powers to the Macao Leal Senado, as the Municipal Couneit is called, has offered the suggestion that ft is expedient to grant to the Leal Serado wider functions and also a larger income derived from public utilities and that the present constitution should be altered to include three members nominated by the Macao Government Council from the senior members of the Civil Service, ie chiefs of departments, and two members elected by the public, one of whom will occupy seat on the Government Council as Fepresentative of the people. The system by which all five mem. bers will be elected, therefore, will not operate. The President of the Leal Senado will be elected by the members of the Senado from among themselves,
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