COPY TELEGRAM
14390
TO
THE
OF GOVERNMENT
INDIA, DATED th May Jan
303
Your financial despatch No.2 two
January 1st 1896
Your Financial Secretary's Letter to Colonial Secretary
Hong Kong 12th August 1898.
Colonial Office enquire whether
you can undertake subsidiary coin for Hong Kong immediately
on receipt of dies and punches.
Requirements 2.500.000
ten cent pieces fortnightly during first nine months,
afterwards normal. Also can you supply if it be desired
Straits Settlements for which demand less urgent.
Please
telegraph reply as quickly as possible.
A