12581
Supply
Case-indented for, which
Liv A. Konnelly
Why hi ho
Lee 11818.
apparently
We might send a copy of this despatch to the Govt of Bermuda, but Lord Carnarvon cannot express
Any further Opinion on their letter than that contained in the letter of 26th ulto
until a full report has been received from Sir A. Kennedy
Sepup diation premins being started in waiting to the Govt.
MR.
120/10/76.
and till the Treasury with refer to the penultimate paragraph that they have rights attendant on his decision to the scheme submitted by the Colonial Officer & that the
not proposal is one which the
could in
any
incr*
he and ptes. They will have seen
that His Lordship has shaped his despatch in such a way that the
in charge of
Colonial Officer
should be the one
RM 26 19 to
by the Govt or the Bank
The Injury
fully submitted
with the small coinage he again for
his legitimate purposes,
L
the
an
supply
premium
will facilitate affairs, & his disposal of this coinage being issued in outrages to command
HKLAND,
In the reply to this Letter the following
Number should be quoted.
16323
TREASURY CHAMBERS,
18 October
131
197
With reference to your letter
of
the 26
th
76
10796.
ulto, I am directed
by the Lords Commissioners of
Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit,
for the information of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, the
accompanying copy of
a letter
which has been received from the
Officer in charge of the Treasury
Chest at Hongkong,
on the subject
of the difficulty of supplying
the Chest with Subsidiary Coinage. The Under Secretary
of State
Colonial Office
Their