ABSTRACT

Subscriptions. In early October, at a meeting with all the major chambers of commerce in Hong Kong, the Society ‘resolved’ that Canton’s currency would be accepted in the colony at its face value and that the chambers would draw up a scale of fines to be imposed for any breach of this requirement (Xunhuan ribao (Universal Circulating Herald), 5, 9, 10 October 1912). The governor, in response to the Siyi men’s activities, published a ‘notice of caution,’ in the Government Gazette drawing public attention to the Bank Notes Ordinance of 1895, banning the circulation of any currency without the sanction of a Secretary of State signified through the Governor (Hong Kong Government Gazette, No. 314, 12 October 1912).