CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879 — Page 138

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the letters of the Song Hong Chamber

4

& Commerce and of

the

of Managers of the Oriental Bank.

and of the chartered deercantile Bank of Lidia London and thinna enclosed in. I Pape Hennessy's despatch

16 = Enny 1877

of 18

of

that

no actual inconvenience has been experienced in Consequence of a scarcity

legal tender Coin, and that the Trading Community is therefore only giving expression to apprehension of difficulties which may winder the obtaining of Mexican dollars at certani Leasons.

The trading Community

would seek.

a

rencesy for thes possible inconvenience in the re-establishment of the Houg Hong mich and the issue tience

Hong Kong dollar, on in

or a

The coinage of

at house.

с

special doller In other words they

ask that a sufficient supply

of legal

tender coin may

be maintained at the coll- of the Colonial Government- and, as the seputy Ennater of the Munich has shewre in ties reports upon the subject_ that there is good reason for anticipating a Considerable lass to the Exlouial Government

were

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