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Show FEES ST rVTE HOPES J FOR OWN C JRRENCY I DLT-.MN. Fob. 18. Proposals for a H ne Irish currency and irih postage stamps arc b lng discussed by tho ; free state authorities. Banking circles here are said to be strongly opposed to any alteration in the currency on the ground that , it will hamper trade and cause com- plications by the establishment of yet another fluctuating "foreign ex-ch.in?'- but ns i nal sentiment may weep these objections aside. Soma I predict that before the end of the year Irish printing pressos will be turning II our IriSh treasury notes. Ri ckonlng i mnd shillings and 1 pence win doubtless continue for some time, nnd English Kl'vtr and copper . date; but It Is few mtJ Ipat i thai th' free state will adopt tho decimal system of coinage .s soon as practicable and that Irish dollars and cents, or whatever their equivalent Qaelii names ma ybe, will ultimately take the place of the stcr- si a for postage stamps, the pmpoe.-ii ..'-. x-B rangement with Oreat Britain for ably consisting of a shamrock or harp. 9 combln tl iviih t rd "Erin" In Irish characters upon the face of tho B1 stamps now In use. loiter on the free Mate will design HI Its own Stamps, ;irul they are not like- HI ly to bear the English kind's Image. |