CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892 — Page 284

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Inclosure in abool.

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H.B.In. Consulate you!

May

Canton

16.1892.

I had the honour to address

you in Despatch ho 12 of the 24

of August last in reply to your

circular ho

of

the

the

29th of July

on

th

the subject of the Hongkong subsidiary

Coins in China.

Since that despatch

was written

the Chinese Goot mint has poured

mouth after mouthe

flood of token

coins into this province. These cours have

of

course spread into Hong Kong. They are already for in excess of the demand

for

for them, and the supply goer

intermission.

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on without

Here, as a general rule no distinction is made between English

and Chinese

coins, but I have been told that the

:native shroffs and compradores prefer Chinese ten cent coins to English merely

because the of the former

Equal to a

are

exactly

dollar in weight, while thu

English dimes are a little over that weight.

It has been ascertained that Canton Chinese have made very

clever counterfeits

of the English len and twenty cent pieces,

And that these have been in circulation

for some time. At the request of the Hong Kong Government I have written

to the Chinese Authorities on the subject.

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