}
COPY.
No. 40.
MEMORANDUM.
From H. B. M. Consulate-General,
Canton,
To Assistant Colonial Secretary,
300
C.O
14278
I RECE
REG! 28 APR 13
Hongkong.
March 31,
1913.
Subject:- Subsidiary Coinage on Canton Market.
Memorandum;
For the informatdon of His Excellency the Governor. The Min Chih Pao of today's date announces that " "owing to the scarcity on the market of subsidiary "coinage, the Treasury have instructed the lint to "turn out daily 100,000 ten cent pieces and 200,000 five cent pieces".