CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11] — Page 56

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return to their

role when

favourite they have

sucked the orange dry.

They

carn a

always rule

the market, and delêmune

whether a stock shall rise..

оч

fall. It is therefore high time that legislation. should provide for from

a cure

the abuses ar

arising

such unrestrained

pover. By the action of

the Bears a,

a fall

rir values

of 490/% has been established

in the shares

of

the

- above named Bank. Now

the Chartered Bank of India

Clustralia & China and the New Oriental Bank

suffered heavy losses in the year 1889 & 1890 respectively The consequent depreciation in the stocks of these Banks

was

with the

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infinitesimal compared fall within only the last half year in

the value of the shares

the local institution. It is palpable that the

whose shares

are

former whose registered in London were protected by Lehman's Act whereas in this colony

the Bears had unrestricted

dō run them dow

0.31 32 33.

and

ten weak holders

liberty

frighten into selling

iin a

panie.

In the face of the Broker's Association doing nothing to remedy the end, it is absolutely necessary

that the shares Saces Bill.

should become law. By over selling or rather by selling fictitious shares the

market becomes overloaded,

oir

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