CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4] — Page 232

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4.

Only a few months ago, in

your despatch No.150 of 21st July last,

you reported that a resolution had been

unanimously passed at a Special Meeting

of the Hong Kong General Chamber of

Commerce in favour of the legalization

of the Japanese Yen, and in your des-

patch No.181 of 5th September last you

forwarded reports tending to show that

...

the Yen was beginning to be accepted

in Southern China almost asfreely as

the Mexican Dollar. I enquired by

telegraph on the 27th of October last,'

when I might expect the report of the

Committee appointed by the Chamber of

Commerce to consider the question of

coining a British Dollar for Hong Kong,

and you replied by telegraph on the

31st of October that the idea of a Brit-

ish Dollar was abandoned.

5.

These rapid variations of

opinion incline me to doubt whether the

question has received the careful con-

sideration which it deserves, and to

hesitate before giving my assent to

experiment such as that Butik dollar the dewigs Buitish dollar,

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