THE NAIROBI INCIDENT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 86, 13 April 1907, Page 4

THE NAIROBI INCIDENT.

CAUSE OF THE AFFAIR

NATIVE OFFENCE EXAGGERATED.

fPBESS ASSOCIATION.} (Received April 13, 9.12 a.m.)

LONDON, April 12. The newspapers criticise Lord Elgin's .refusal to interfere with the sentence in the Grogan case, in which several members of the Nairobi Colonists's Association took the law into their own hands and punished natives for insulting white women.

Lord Elgin has announced that the officer administering at Nairobi reported that the insult to white Yeomen was not serious—it only amounted to rudeness and disobedience—and that Grogan and four Britishers flogged the natives, despite the intervention of the police officer*.

CABLE NEWS.

LBT BIiECTEIO TEI/EGBAPH. —COPTBIQHT.T!