§ MR. PICTON (Leicester)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether six Usutu prisoners, convicted in 1888–9, are now in Eshowe Gaol, in Zululand, viz.: Maghele, Tshwayibe, Nsukuzonke, Uxibilili, Umpikwa, Mafukwini; and if any of them are not, where are they, and what were the circumstances of their removal?
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Baron H. de WORMS,) Liverpool, East ToxtethThree of the prisoners, named Maghele, Tshwayibe, and Umpikwa, who are undergoing life sentences in commutation of capital sentences for murder, were in 1890 removed to Natal, to undergo their sentences under the Colonial Prisoners' Removal Act, 1884, and with the sanction of the Secretary of State, the gaol at Eshowe not being suitable for prisoners undergoing life sentences. The other three prisoners—Nsukuzonke (5 years), Uxibilili (8 years), and Mafukwini (5 years)—are, as far as the Secretary of State is aware, undergoing their sentences at Eshowe.