§ 36. Mr. HORRABINasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if his attention has been drawn to the shooting and severe wounding of an African servant, named Moses Ladele, by his employer, a Government official, at the Iju waterworks, near Lagos, in September last; whether any legal proceedings have been instituted in this case; and if he is aware that there have recently been other complaints of the shooting of Africans by European masters at Ijebu Ode and at Kaduna, in Northern Nigeria?
§ Dr. SHIELSThe Acting-Governor has reported that a European officer at Kaduna has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of a native servant from a gunshot wound. No information has reached the Colonial Office in regard to the other cases to which my hon. Friend refers, but the Acting-Governor will be asked to report.