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opinion
business nature
on matters of
a
purely
cannot of
9.
course.
carry
as
much weight
as those of the two gentlemen whom I have just mentioned.
Seeing that the- weight of a Petition of _ this nature depends entirely on the names of the persons who
sign it, I have caused the signatures to be carefully analysed with the following result.
of
Of the 4 local British
Banks, two have not signed
the Petition,
one
of those two
being the Institution which has by far the largest
interest in Share
transactions viz. the
"HongKong and Shanghai – Bank.
Nineteen Mercantile Firm's have signed, but
here
again
there are notable
exceptions the majority of those which have signed
being
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