§ DR. CAMERON (Glasgow, College)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, 758 Whether his attention has been called to a statement that H.M. Gunboat Zephyr had, in the course of a cruise undertaken for the purpose of "settling some trouble with Natives" in North Borneo, shelled villages and landed a boat's crew which destroyed two villages and some canoes; and, whether he has received any Report on the subject, and if he will lay Papers concerning it upon the Table?
§ THE FIRST LORD (LORD GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)A gunboat was sent to punish a piratical tribe who had been guilty of some rather serious acts of kidnapping in Darvel Bay—a place of bad repute for piracy. Some of their boats and huts were burnt; but, as far as we know, there were no casualties. The hon. Gentleman can have the officer's Report if he moves for it.