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MEASURES.

English Standard Alcasures are employed in the Colony, and also the following Chinese ones: -

Of Length.

According to the measure established by the Fariff.

141 Inches Enghiti,

87

{Chemg.

Four Yards.

3th Gards.

{

Covid Chek.

140 English Inches.

about 15 English. Iuch. Jon Fren

Inch. Isun.

Ysun.

Fren.

Fen Lise

Fürn.

{

Live.

Lip.

Grain.

make

Chinese Inches.) Slick or ons Stove

the

Hol

27

1,580 Aubei F.sun.

316

31.6

Gill.

*

Few

Ane Thick 3160 lubie Tsun ( 2 Hoti

5 Tow

10 Thing

10 Hel

2 Yote

5 Ch ch

10 Chan

10 Fach

30 Swei

•

Shing Hol Mot Clich

Chan

Fich

rr

er

#

Cu se. Ladle.

Handful. Fugil.

Memorandum.

The local Currency.

as established

by Royal Proclamation has been much

this

disturbed in the

course of

The Chinese are as capsicinera

year.

Coer

demanding almost exclusively the old

chopped Spanish Dollars particularly in

These Dollars are

payment for lea.

caristantly diminishing without any

influx of others of the same kind, u

that their comparative somcenes coupled

with the unusua

4 of

ally large amoun

spccic required last season for the

purchase of tea, has placed them at

considerable premium in the Canton

ket with reference to Sterling

market

li Aluxican Dollars and

Rupees at their Sterling rates. Those

Machauts therefore who had to raise

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