the delay which is much
to be deprecated.
5.
During this year a demand for subsidiary coins as unprecedented as it was inexplicable set in. The supplies of ten cent pieces received during July, August, September, and October amounted to $1,750,000 - worth of which only $1,000 worth now remains in the hand of the Government for use, and I am informed on good authority that quantities of coins exceeding those received would have been readily taken up.
6.
The course which I have pursued this year in respect of the supply of coins has not been adopted without careful consideration. The Treasurer has been in frequent communication with Mr. T. Jackson, Chief Manager of the