§ MR. J. L. CAREW (Dublin, College Green)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to a Resolution unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Friends' Foreign Missionary Guild, held in Dublin on the 3rd February 1897, deprecating the existence of slavery in the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, now under the Protectorate of the British Government, as inconsistent with the position taken up by Great Britain with regard to slavery; and whether Her Majesty's Government will take steps to bring about its total and immediate abolition?
*MR. CURZONA copy of the Resolution has been received, and Her Majesty's Government have already taken steps with reference to the abolition of the legal status of slavery in Zanzibar and Pemba, the nature of which they hope before long to be able to communicate to the House.