§ MR. BUCHANAN (Edinburgh, W.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether information has reached him that the Mission Stations of the Free Church of Scotland and the London Missionary Society at Bandawe and other stations northward on Lake Nyassa have received no mails or letters since October 1889; whether those mails have been detained by the Portuguese Authorities at Quilimane; and whether representations will be made to the Portuguese Government to prevent the detention of mails in the future?
§ *SIR J. FERGUSSONOwing to the recent disturbed condition of certain portions of territory in the regions mentioned postal irregularities must have occurred; but Her Majesty's Government have no information directly bearing out the statement made in the hon. Member's question. The matter will, however, be inquired into.