§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether a Petition has been for some 199 time before Her Majesty's Government, signed practically by the entire adult male population of the Colony of British Honduras, urgently setting forth the heavy losses and extreme hardships to which they are subjected through the continuous depreciation of a silver currency with its consequent diminution of purchasing power, and praying for a restoration of the gold standard which formerly existed; and whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to accede to the prayer of that Petition?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. S. BUXTON,) Tower Hamlets, PoplarA Petition, largely and generally signed by the inhabitants of British Honduras, to the effect stated in the question, was received at the Colonial Office on the 20th February, and is at present under the consideration of the Secretary of State, who has not yet decided what course he shall lake with regard 1o it.