With reference to previous correspondence relative to a claim by
               this Department of £675.2.4 for Stores supplied for the service
               of the Colonial Government of 
British Columbia, and to the
               letter from the Colonial Office of the 
8th June last, I am
               directed by 
Mr Secretary Cardwell to request that you will
               inform me whether the Colony is now prepared to settle the claim
               in question, or any portion thereof.