THE NAIROBI SCANDAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 4 June 1907, Page 4

THE NAIROBI SCANDAL.

<>;Tia.\L Ktiliiiiiy. Mombasa/ Aprii ] 1. Lord }.};: : n was evidently misinformed. His l'.trlt:, y •'a!"!iient con<-eriiing .'ii-' v ill Xairohi ami : ;»■ for t;jiiawl'ul assembly ■.y\ n,i-.in [Ol i,,. ol' Captain u.her settlers <:U<-:?s the :-;!T;); i-c. The -:iv i;, i-dlows. The Indian 'vital Code Mi ii:» punishment |t>r tt.itiv«» in-- ] ip <• i<. v. Isiie women, ami ihe Maimlii naive i- unbearably insolent owing U, I'auiiy administration bv Colonial (Mice oiik-iuls.

Captain llrogan did not. as hord Elgin gin was informed. collect a crowd of white men to carry out tlie Hogging. The Hugging was not iuilic-ted. as Lord Kfgin

says, in -the nvsi. brutal manner.'' It was carried <.ut in previ.-ely the same manner as >imilar punishment is da.il v inflicted in the local gaols. Tin' crowd which witnessed the Hogging out of men* curiosity. None of the European* were armed, lord Elgin s beliel that many of them carried weapons is quite without foundation. •

The affair is looked upon as having beoil ail inevitable result of tho faulty administration of native affairs. To th? same cause must be attributed the fact that the Kikuyu tribe of dU.OUO spears is restless.

There is intense ami growing ill- feeling between tlx- settler ami tin- ulliciiil element. ill-lecling due to tliv Administrutinn's native policy.