§ MR. PICTON (Leicester)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any action has been taken to prevent the recurrence of disturbances in the Moree district of the Cape Coast, consequent on the 1493 suppression of native authority and the failure of the Gold Coast Government to replace it by other arrangements, as instanced especially in the riots of February, 1889, where about 38 natives were killed and many others were mortally wounded; and, if any action has been taken whether he will inform the House as to its nature?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Baron H. de WORMS, Liverpool, East Toxteth)No special action has been taken with reference to the Moree district, in which the authority for the maintenance of order is the same as in other parts of the Colony. The circumstances of the riots referred to were fully stated by me in reply to the hon. Member for Battersea on 4th July last, and do not bear out the assumption in the question that they were consequent on the suppression of native authority and the failure of the Gold Coast Government to replace it by other arrangements. The District Com missioner who was in charge of the District of Cape Coast at the time of the Moree riots is no longer in the service of the Colony.