It is not the first time that endeavours have been made, as is the case with the Hongkong Stock, Exchange just now, to put an end]
gambling on forward transactions in Shares by requiring that the scrip Jaumbers should appear on the necessary documents. "The Committee of the Hongkong Stock Exchange seem to have acted somewhat hastily in endeavouring to correct abuses by a resolution of the Committee itself, where in fact an extraordinary gener-meeting of the whole exchange would seem to be necessary. But!
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