§ Lord H. CAVENDISH - BENTINCKasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the late Chairman of the Rhodesia Reserves Commision did, as Sergeant Coryndon, take part with Sir Starr 932W Jameson in the invasion of Matabeleland in the year 1893; and whether, as a noncommissioned officer of that force, he was entitled to take from the Matabele 6,000 acres of their land arid his share of the loot?
§ Lieut.-Colonel AMERYI have no information as to Sir R. Coryndon's service in the Matabele War of 1893 beyond what appears in works of reference, but if the Noble Lord means to suggest that his bearing arms in that emergency, an emergency in which Imperial forces were also employed, unfitted him for subsequent service under the Crown or for the Chairmanship of the Rhodesia Native Reservés Commission, I must emphatically dissent.