§ MR. W. JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state the terms of the proposal made by the Government to the Civil servants in the Eastern Colonies as to the rate the rupee and the dollar respectively were to bear both while such officials were resident abroad and on leave; and whether any conclusion has been arrived at to compensate these members of the Civil Service for the loss incurred by them in consequence of the fall in exchange?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. S. BUXTON,) Tower Hamlets, PoplarThe Secretary of State has made suggestions for improving the position of certain of the Government servants in the three colonies mentioned, but it would be impossible to state the particulars within the limits of an answer, and until the proposals have been considered by the Legislative Councils of the Colonies it would serve no useful 1348 purpose to make a statement on the subject.