CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 443

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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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