§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state the cause of the continuous delay in giving effect to the decision of Her Majesty's Government granting a 1268 gold standard of currency to the Colony of British Honduras; and, having regard to the fact that the trade of the colony is represented as being paralysed and the public finances in a deplorable state through the want of a stable currency, whether the necessary arrangements will now be pushed forward so as to bring the gold standard into operation at the earliest possible date?
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. S. BUXTON,) Tower Hamlets, PoplarThe measures required for effecting a complete change of the currency of a colony involve many important questions which can only be decided after careful and deliberate consideration necessarily entailing delay. The Secretary of State is aware of the anxiety of the colonists of British Honduras for the introduction of the gold standard, and he will do all in his power to expedite the matter.