CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11] — Page 54

"The petitioners, constituting as they.

do the

a

majority of the bears, form

gigantic combination to fleece

the weak. This combination should

be legislated against by the Government. Under Mr Keswick's Bill the speculators.

19.20721.

speculators mi shares have

full scope to

buy

and sell

shares to their hearts

content, subject only

to this

restriction, that such shares

are in actual existence

There is no better proof

that "great evils have arisen

in stor

stingsong from this unlimited freedom of

short-selleir

selling

horises and s

now to be

emply

Colony

than the

shops

d vir the

found

and this notwithstanding

the increase in the import

and export of merchantable

articles recorded

by

the

Chinese Imperial

Imperial Maritime

Act was

Customs at the stationis ni this neighbourhood. Lehman's was passed in England

a serious public

to public

to

remedy

Pinjury

evil; the

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