§ MR. JOSEPH A. PEASE (Northumberland, Tyneside)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, as stated in the Zanzibar Gazette of 1st July, Mr. Commissioner A. H. Hardinge has left Zanzibar for a six months' holiday, and what steps in that event Her Majesty's Government propose to take to carry out the pledge given to Parliament on 27th March last, that Mr. Hardinge would go back to Zanzibar in the autumn with instructions to carry out immediately the abolition of the legal status of slavery?
§ COLONEL DENNYI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what action the Government intend to take in fulfilment of their promise to consider the abolition of the status of slavery in Zanzibar, in view of the fact that Consul General Hardinge has arrived in this country?
MR. CURZONHer Majesty's Government are already engaged in considering, in consultation with Mr. Hardinge, the best method of carrying out the pledges which they gave to the House earlier in the year.
§ MR. DALZIELI understood the pledge to be that this would be carried out during the autumn?
MR. CURZONNo, that it would be carried out on the return of Mr. Hardinge to Zanzibar. I do not exactly know the date of his return.