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were minted at a place called Siu Kiu" and several other
villages in the Shun Tak and Na Hoi districts and that the
counterfeits so minted were sent out to all parts of the
world for circulation.
This Government has repeatedly represented
and remonstrated with the Viceroy of Canton about the
existing illicit ints in the above mentioned villages.
Numerous arrests were made by the Chinese Authorities and
guilty persons punished. But I was informed that owing to
the complicity of some of the high Chinese officials at
Canton with the counterfeiters, it would be a difficult
matter to stamp out the evil, Subsequently Captain Superin-
tendent May received a further communication from the
Commissioner of Police at Melbourne on the same subject
in which it stated that the information contained in the
telegram which reached here in June log4 was supplied by
a man named Mui Fuk Shing and that Mui Fuk Shing was then
in HongKong. After some uifficulty I found Mui Fuk Shing
and had an interview with him and obtained a written
statement from him a copy of which I now beg to attach for
your perusal.
I have,&c.,
(Sa.) W. Quincey,
Inspector.