§ DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether Mr. Botha, a farmer of Griqualand West, sixty years of age, was, on the evidence of native servants with whom he had quarrelled, arrested on the 28th November last at Modder River; if he was taken on foot six miles by English soldiers, sent to De Aar and then to Capo Town; if he was returned to the place of his arrest and tried before a military court; if he was refused legal assistance, sentenced to two years hard labour, but subsequently released on investigation of his case; and why was he 575 sent to Cape Town and then sent back, and will the cases of Messrs. Botha, Michau, De Coch, the Du Presses, and Uys be inquired into.
§ * MR. WYNDHAMWe have no further information on these cases; the records of the trials under martial law have not yet come from South Africa.
§ DR. TANNERI shall raise the question on the Estimates.