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Provincial Authorities impose similar restrictions.
I trust therefore that Your Highness will urge upon the Viceroy the importance of cooperation with the Government of Rongkong towards the object in view ( one which I feel confident Your Highness will consider of equal advantage to China,) by undertaking that the manu - facture and issue of subsidiary coins by the Provincial
Authorities shall be discontinued until the Canton coinags
reaches par, that thereafter the manufacture and issue will be limited to actual requirements of the currency
and to such quantities as will prevent the coins from
falling again to a discount, and that at the same time,
the influx of the subsidiary soins of other Provinces of
China into the Two Ewang will be prevented.
The Government of Longkong has no ulterior object
in vies and does not seek any special advantage in the
mattor.
His Vajesty's Consul-General in Canton is
bringing the question again to the notice of the Viceroy,
who recently in conversation with the Governor of Hong-
kong admitted that the interests of Hongkong and Canton
in the question were identical and that what was good for
one must be good for the other.
These proposals are put forward in the inter-
ents of the common trade existing in South China and that
of the hundrede of thousands of persons
Chinese - who are engaged in it.
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European and
I therefore earnestly hope that Your Highness
will urge upon the Viceroy at Canton the importance of
cooperation with the Government of Hongkong in effecting
the rehabilitation of the subsidiary coinage.
I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your
Highness the assurance of my highest consideration.