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Mall in A this funt.

Petery to be sličresood und Fämittances

madr zwayable to the

"KONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING

CORPORATION"

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Foochow 22 Mar 1892

Geo Prillipo Logh

d. M. Cras uly

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Forchow

Gerthelifes

Dear Sir,

J.

in

ressly

to your enquiry

12th inst.:

the article in the "Daily Press" of

the scarcity of silver all believe that the vault

silver here I

of

a

larger supply of subsidiary coin is a source of great inconvenience to the natives

2. "The own arrival of a large supply of these coins" refers to an order said to have been sent by the local authorities to the Canton Mint. I am inclined to doubt that the supply ordered is "large". Previous to the Proclamation issued last year that the Hong Kong & Canton subsidiary coin were to be accepted on a par with each other, this Bank

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