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in
China by the absence of any national Currency and the determined hostility of the Imperial Government to the CH introduction of a currency by tale, those
difficulties seem
but for an a National
there. The
great in Japan
just as great
opposite
reason
viz.
that
Currency is already established Japanese Government therefore
though willing
to receive
Hongkong
on a har with Mexicans in
dollars
payment
of Government dues are
pust
as resolved
as
the Chinese Government not to mate
foreign
Coins a
·legal tender amongst the
Community at large
19.
The inclised
corrispondence betiveen Enclosure 720 4.
myself and bir Hany Partes describes
ffully the position of the question.
in
Japan, and though apparently the Bankers might apist this Government
more
effectually if they chose, it is
leto clear that whatever course
nevertheles
they are pursuing they do so because they consider it the most conducive to their interests, and no
having
an
support worth
be expected for the Maint
unles furnished by parties hoping to benefit by using the Maint.
10.
I deeply regret therefore that the
inclosed despatches should so
fully
corroborate the deductions which
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the balance of probabilities for and against the Mint. That establishment may be regarded as having been wholly