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Spanish Dollars would have been subject to much disadvantage had
they
not been able, with the ready assistance of the Oriental Bank, to
succeed in depreciating the current value of the other legalised Coins
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to fourteen per veut discount
in coeliange for their Bills and gords;
depreciation which has extended
to dealings in the shopkeepers and purchases in the Bazaar at Hongkong.
There
scarcely
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reason, though valid one, why Spanish Dollars should be at a premium as
above exemplified, but none whatever why the other coins, particularly Mex- ican Dollars of mine intrinsic value,
should be at a discount in relation to
their sterling standard. But so it is.
The Merchants will not supply shopkeepers with goods excepting upon
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these terms of payment -
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the
shopkeepers in their turn retaliate
Customers
and all persons
receiving pay at sterling rates have consequently been subject to a serious loss either in parting with their money
at a depreciated value, or in beeing charged more for the Articles they have been obliged to purchase. loss
which has given rise to much
discontent, partion Carly amongst the Froops in garrison, while unfortunately;
there does not appear to be
remedy for it.
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any
4s closely connected
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with Canton that it is not surprising
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in all matters of conventional
for the former to succumb to the
batter place where the great bulk of Commercial business is transacted. where the governing principle of