§ MR. BUCHANAN (Aberdeenshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies what are the branches of special expenditure, other than telegraph construction, in the northern territories of the Gold Coast for which a Supplementary Estimate for £70,000 is asked?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIESOf the £70,000 £20,000 is for telegraph construction, and the remaining £50,000 is for the cost of maintaining a force in the Hinterland to protect the inhabitants, with whom we have made treaties, and to secure the peace and good government of these territories for which we are now responsible.