BRITISH EAST AFRICA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8061, 13 July 1904, Page 2

BRITISH EAST AFRICA.

■--, ■■ ■ 4* ■ — . AN OFFENDED OPFIOIAL. L United Press Aseooifttion— By Eleotri©3?elegt*ph'—Oopyright / (Received July 13, 8.5 a.m.) LONiOON, July 12, Sir Charles Eliofc has resigned th« High Commissionefship of British East Africa, in pique, because Lord Lansdowne consulted two expert colonial officials who were visiting England respecting the right of the Maisai tribesmen to retain their grazing Sir OhSrlfeS Eliofc protested that he was not a subordinate, and' ought to have been consulted. Tha newspapers Gondemn 'his exhibition, <Ji wounded vanity, and esanera-te Lord Lansdowiie in the matter. (Sir <S. N. E. Eliot, Commissioner and Commander-in-Ohief fof ihb British Efts* African Protectoratej resigned, and appealed to Mr B&lfotif t& inquire into the circumstances of his resignation. He declared that l>ord Lansdowne prohibited grants of land to individuals^ while ordering him to give the monopoly of fefcomeus j tracts oh unduly advantageous .terms to "a ! Jewish East African syndicate. Sir C. '■■ N. j E. Bliot considered this proc*dtir> Unjust and impolitic. Later Earl Percy said that tfie Ooverhment did not propose to grant any syndicate a charter to control territory in E&*sfc Africa.)