§ MR. HENNIKER HEATONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in the interests of economy, and having regard to the prevailing depression in the Australasian Colonies, he will suggest to tin; Governments concerned the propriety of their abolishing the present system of separate London Agents General, with a view to Australasia being placed in the same position as Canada, and be represented in London by one High Commissioner?
§ MR S. BUXTONI should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would have known that the matter is essentially one for the Colonial Governments to consider and decide, and not a matter in which Her Majesty's Government could judiciously interfere.