Mr Chamberlain telegraphed to the Governor of Hongkong requesting to be informed of the requisition more clearly about the amount.
3. The following reply has now been received in answer to your telegram.
In answer to your telegram, Chamberlain approves of your acting on it. I am to inform you that Chamberlain has addressed the Governor of Hongkong on the subject of these indents, and has requested that in future care be taken that the number of coins required may be always specified.
W. Robinson.
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Not the number of dollars worth, shall you 25926/46 Hong Kong Aug. Ind
19 December 46
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 18th inst, informing me that one hundred thousand dollars worth of small coins is required in Hongkong.
The wording of your telegram to the Treasury appears to be somewhat ambiguous, and I am not certain whether $100,000 dollars worth or one hundred thousand pieces was the amount required.
I request that you give instructions that the requisitions be carefully worded in future so that the number required may be always specified.