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is question that the idea of - employing a Foreign Mint to coin
is distasteful to them,
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d being
distasteful, the more it is pressed
pon the Chinese mind, the more : this seems forced into opposition : to the whole thing, - to minting and
coinage both. This
verz
of
mory
not be
rational, but the only question immediate interest is the reality
of the feeling, and of this I have
Pro
doubl.
It does not follow from
this that the Chinese will not,
even within the next few years,
determine of their
accord, if
left alone, on having a Mint.
It is only certain that they will not listen to semy suggestions for the purchase of the Hong Kong Mint - a view to being
unless it were with -delivered from the question and all further importunity; - and the first use they would be likely to put it
to in that
case would be to break.
it up. They
are
the
equally
ovverde
at present to any proposition for
adoption of a coinage, though Struck for them free of expense. -under conditions of profil. In.
word, the Chinese Authorities are et convinced of the necessity
not
of a metallic
Currency.
Thej
do
not believe the want of it is felt