§ MR. BUCHANAN (Aberdeenshire, E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether an office of Superintendent of African Protectorates has recently been created at the Foreign Office, what are the emoluments and duties attached to the office, and what are the Protectorates referred to.
§ *MR. BRODRICKYes. The appointment alluded to has boon made. The emoluments are similar to those assigned to the Third Assistant Under Secretary of State £1,000, rising at the end of five years to £1,200. The duties attached to the post are the general superintendence, under the immediate direction of the Secretary of State, of the correspondence relating to the administration and finance of the Protectorates administered by the Foreign Office, namely, Somaliland, East Africa, Uganda, and British Central Africa, as well as Zanzibar, so far as the administration of the latter is under the control of the Imperial Government.