§ LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL (for Mr. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT)asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether the statements in The Times of August the 5th, regarding the Boer attack upon Usibepu, and the ruin of several British subjects thereby, are correct; and, what steps Her Majesty's Government are taking to preserve the Zulu people from the horrible oppression to which the Native population of the Transvaal have been subjected by the Boers?
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEY, in reply, said, that Mr. Dodd was one of the men referred to in the Question. He was one of the White men who had taken service under Usibepu, and the other British subjects alluded to were men who for weal or woe had thrown themselves into the lot of Usibepu, and if ruin had occurred to them they had only themselves to blame. As to the second Question, he had nothing further to add to what he had previously stated in regard to the obligation of protecting the Reserve. They did not recognize any obligation to interfere at present between the Zulus and the Boers they had invited into their country.