§ MR. WHALLEYasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, seeing that there is now no war between England and the Zulus, and no Act had been passed authorizing his detention, By what legal authority Cetewayo is still detained a prisoner in Cape Town?
MR. GRANT DUFFSince the conclusion of the war with the Zulus, Cety-wayo has been detained by the military authorities under the orders of the Home Government, his detention being a necessary part of the arrangement made for the settlement of Zululand.
§ MR. WHALLEYI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies if that is a legal authority?
MR. GRANT DUFFYes, certainly it is a legal authority; but it will require to be legalized, and that act of State will be legalized in the usual way by a clause of indemnity in the Bill before the Colonial Parliament.