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their hauds quite full enough as it is.
are not overworked as are the Post
They
Office clerks, but their time is well filled up every day, and, as the
business of the Colony increases, will be
AMOYO DO.
H.
These
were the circumstances
under which the HongKong and Shanghai
forward and offered
Bank caire forioa.
to conduct the Savings Bank itself. Being unjself overwhelmed with work,
Stamp Ordinance to get
with a ww
our
into working order, a scheuce for the introduction of Portal Notes in hand; and the endless anxiety of i Opium Reverse, devas, though withing to attocups the Back insself, profoundly, thankful
prosperous an
to have so
institution
institution do
the Houg Hong
Shanghai Bauk relieve me
aud
of it. That Corporation had secccessfully -opened a Savings Bank at Shanghai- where, without any of
our elaborate
g
wer
machinery of Ordinauns to Savings to the arccount of about £ 13.000 were received in a short time from. shipmasters, mates, engineers, pilots 4o; in a word, from the most notoriously extravagant and m improvident class of foreigners have out here. One cogout argument for allowing the Hongkong and Shoughai Bank to open a Saving Bank was that the Government has not the slightest power to prevent its
whereas the carrying on of doing so,
a
Government
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