CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11] — Page 44

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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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