It has been worked experimentally for a couple of months at least before it was thrown open to the public. After four months' experience of such a trial a Commission has been appointed to decide whether upon the whole the Mint should remain open or its closure should be recommended to the Imperial Government. I need hardly point out that if the Mint should be closed now the experiment will never have been tried at all; and I quite agree with M. Mackenzie that if the Colonial Government will give up theoretical disquisitions as to whether the Mint will eventually pay or not—some of these that I have seen are based upon incorrect data and an exceptional state of trade—and apply itself solely to the production of a coinage as regards weight & purity,
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