CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 370

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Memo: suggesting that the Managers of

the Bank's should confer together and bee

whether collectively,

ол

whether

one or more

of Enclosure A

2nd March 1868

of them could not by thin control of the financial operations of trade here matte

concem. I also mentioned

the Mint a paying

the most obvious conditions that would:

probably be required by the Government

from purities willing to undertake the

and expense of the Maint.

charge un 5. The

"The receipt this any of Your Grace's despatch N. 14 of the 25" Jamuny last is I fear adverse even to the blight expectations to which I ulluded of Her Majesty's

The asmny being able to do something more Пласти

hereafter than hitherto for the Maint, and I admit the principles by which the AD

Enclosie N.2.

Enclo

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transactions of Her Majesty's Treasury

are

quided for supplying the Treasury bhests alewad to be miquestional

sound as

enclosed in

CH

explained in Mor Haunt's letter Your Space's dispatch of the

25th January last. b. There are

five Banks here. The Oriental - Hongkong and Shanghai, - the Chartered Mercantile, - the bhautered tank

of India, Australia and bhina, and the

French Compton d' Escompte. The enclosed Meem?

sent to the local Managers

was

of all, and I enclose replies from

the last three. A reply on behalf of the Oriental Bank is promised from Shanghai

whither the representative of that Corporation in lohina has recently gone,

whilst the