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Provincial Authorities impose similar restrictions.

I trust therefore that Your Highness will urge upon the Viceroy the importance of cooperation with the Government of Rongkong towards the object in view ( one which I feel confident Your Highness will consider of equal advantage to China,) by undertaking that the manu - facture and issue of subsidiary coins by the Provincial

Authorities shall be discontinued until the Canton coinags

reaches par, that thereafter the manufacture and issue will be limited to actual requirements of the currency

and to such quantities as will prevent the coins from

falling again to a discount, and that at the same time,

the influx of the subsidiary soins of other Provinces of

China into the Two Ewang will be prevented.

The Government of Longkong has no ulterior object

in vies and does not seek any special advantage in the

mattor.

His Vajesty's Consul-General in Canton is

bringing the question again to the notice of the Viceroy,

who recently in conversation with the Governor of Hong-

kong admitted that the interests of Hongkong and Canton

in the question were identical and that what was good for

one must be good for the other.

These proposals are put forward in the inter-

ents of the common trade existing in South China and that

of the hundrede of thousands of persons

Chinese - who are engaged in it.

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I therefore earnestly hope that Your Highness

will urge upon the Viceroy at Canton the importance of

cooperation with the Government of Hongkong in effecting

the rehabilitation of the subsidiary coinage.

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your

Highness the assurance of my highest consideration.