§ SIR HENEY HOLLANDasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether the Colonial Office have received any information as to actual or threatened attacks upon Mankoroane by persons from Stellaland?
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYSir, we have received several telegrams announcing intended acts of aggression on Mankoroane; but they have not hitherto given us information proceeding from sources above suspicion. The last we received was on the 5th of this month, and was to the effect that a message from Daumas—one of Mankoroane's White advisers—under date of the 4th, announced that the freebooters were marching to Tauung in force, and that scouts had left them three hours from that place. Eight days have elapsed, and we have heard nothing further, so I hope that it may be untrue.