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chance of the Maint's finding work sufficient to occupy it a little longer-
as the prospect of its early closing evidently induces the Bankers to
in
engage Mainting operations which they would
otherwise not have undertaken. Thus
the HongKong and Shunghai Bank
has this
day
tindered
aw
additional
$100,000 for comimage so that the Maint
and ere
then further
will be in full operation till about the 5th of May.
may perhaps be
work
as
given
to it.
10. I feel it a duty to keep it spen long as employment is given to it -
• but in the event of that imployment ceasing altogether or becoming interupted to defray the worthing expenses
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option
do so
of the Mint, I shall have but to close it. I shall neverthelefo with the utmost reluctance, for
I
confefs I had begun to hope that the
"The part of
fear of it's being closed might have led to some practical effort the 1Bankers and Mercantile community
om
a little more
to save it, which, with union, would have been quite popible.
M. I
am however obliged to confess that
no one seems to think the Mint could be prositably worked at present, for the extension of trade and
facilities of H inter communication by destroying the
exceptional vectue ignormally given to the
reducing
dollar in certium localities is
all coinage
almost to the standard of
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