§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Under-Secretary for the Colonies whether he has received an official Report of the case of alleged insult to Mr. Ridges, British Protector of Chinese at Ipoh, in the Malay Peninsula, on 9th October last, in which a young Chinaman named An Chuk Fang was arrested while engaged at his shop work, exposed among his acquaintances as a prisoner, with gyves upon his wrists, and sentenced to five years' banishment by the Banishment Court for the offence of asking the Protector whether he could read An Chuk Fang's name when written in Chinese characters; under what law is that sentence imposed; whether, a few days earlier at Ipoh, a European British subject was fined only 75 dollars for having killed a Chinaman; whether he is aware that all the Chinese inhabitants of Ipoh are in terror of the official who is called their Protector; whether the Colonial Office has any control over this British Protector of Chinese, the Banishment Court, the British public officials and 466W magistrates at Ipoh, or the laws they administer; and whether any effort will be made by the Colonial Office to require in future equal treatment of different races there?
§ Colonel SEELYNo, Sir, we have received no Report on the subject.