§ * SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will state who is the deputy administrator of the Orange River Colony, and, with reference to the speech made by that official at Bloem-fontein on March 12th, whether the policy there indicated of supplementing or replacing other punishments for natives by flogging will be disavowed by His Majesty's Government.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINThe Deputy Administrator of the Orange River Colony is Colonel Goold Adams, formerly Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate. I have no official information as to the alleged speech, but have telegraphed for a report. I do not gather that Major Goold Adams proposes either to supplement or replace other punishments by flogging, but only that, in his opinion there are certain offences for which flogging is now administered, and which may be best repressed by this form of punishment.