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Annual Report of the Colonies. Bechuanaland 1892-93 This document was created by the Digital Content Creation Unit University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2010 COLONIAL REPORTS.—ANNUAL. No. 100. BRITISH BECHUANALAND. ANNUAL REPORTS FOR 1892-3. (For Reports for 1891-2 see Colonial Report [Annual] No. 47.) $re*eute% to bat!) ftautfetf of parliament 6$ Commauto offerr $A*\Mtu* February 1894. LONDON; PRINTED FOR HKtt MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY EYRE AND SP0TTISW00DE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTV. And to IKS purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE AND SFOTTISWOODE, EAST HARDING STREET, FLEET STBBBT, E.C an J 32, ABINGDON STREET, WESTMINSTER, 8.W.; or JOHN MKNZIES k Co., 12, HANOVER STREET, EDINBURGH, and 90, WIST NILE STREET, GLASGOW; or HODGES, FIGGIS, k Co., LIMITED, 104, GRIFTOM STREET, DUBLIN, 1894. [C—0857.-50.] Price 3|«T. COLONIAL REPORTS* The following among other Reports relating to Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions have been issued, and may be obtained for a few pence from the sources indicated on the title page:— ANNUAL. Ho. Colony. Sierra Leone Jamaica - Trinidad and Tobago Newfoundland British New Guinea Victoria - Rodrigues - Bermuda • Fiji British Honduras • Turks and Caicos Islands Gibraltar - Bahamas - Leeward Islands - Trinidad and Tobago Malta Gambia - Straits Settlements Grenada - Barbados - St. Vincent Hong Kong St. Lucia •• Falkland Islands - Gold Coast Basutoiand Ceylon Zuiuland - Mauritius - Labuan British Honduras - Lagos Sierra Leone Rodrigues« St. Helena MISCELLANEOUS* No, Colony. Subject. 1 Gold Coast Economic Agriculture. 2 Zuiuland - Forests. 3 Sierra Leooe Geology and Botany. COLONIAL REPORTS.—ANNUAL. BRITISH UBOIIUAKA- No. 100. LARD. 1892-3. BRITISH BE OHU AN ALAND. [For Reports for 1891-2, tet Colonial Report (Annual) No. 47.] Sir H. B. LOCH to the MARQUESS OF RiroN. Government House, Cape Town, MY LORD MARQUESS, October 19, 1893. I HAVE the honour to enclose, for your Lordship's information, a despatch which I have received from the Admin'strator of British Bechuanaland, covering the annual reports of the Bechuanaland officers. It is satisfactory to note that, although the trade of Bechuana­ land has diminished, owing to the opening of the Johannesburg Railway and other incidents, nevertheless the settlement of the territory has been progressing. I trust that with the increased settlement and the orderly development of the Protectorate, as well as with increased railway facilities, the trade may again revive, to the benefit of the inhabitants as well as the public revenue. I have, &c. (Signed) HENRY B. LOCH, Governor and High Commissoner. From the ADMINISTRATOR, Vryburg, to His Excellency the HIGH COMMISSIONER, Cape Town. Administrator's Office, British Bechuanaland, SIR, Vryburg, August 15, 1893. I HAVE the honour to forward, for your Excellency's information, the following reports on the progress and condition of I 79220. Wt. 10280. A n COLONIAL BEPOBTS.—ANNUAL. BRITISH British Bechuanaland, and of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, for BECHUAHA- the year ending on the 3lst March 1893 :— I.AHD. 1892-3. Page. 1. The Colonial Secretary and Receiver-General 12 2. The Crown Prosecutor - - -19 3. The Surveyor-General - - - 24 4. The Registrar of Deeds.* 5. The Acting Postmaster-General and Superin­ tendent of Telegraphs - - - 27 6. The Collector of Customs - - * 28 7. The Inspector of Native Reserves - - 36 8. The Master of the Chief Magistrate's Court.* 9. The Civil Commissioner and Resident Magis­ trate of Vryburg - - - - 38 10. The Civil Commissioner and Resident Magis­ trate of Mafeking - - - -36 11. The Civil Commissioner and Resident Magis­ trate of Taungs - - - - 48 12. The Civil Commissioner and Resident Magis* trate of Kuruman - - - - 50 13. The Civil Commissioner and Resident Magis­ trate of Gordonia - - - - 51 14. The District Surgeon of Vryburg - - 52 15. The District Surgeon of Mafeking - - 53 16. The District Surgeon of Kuruman - - 54 IT. The District Surgeon of Gordonia - - 55 18. The Assistant Commissioner, Gabero'ies - 55 19. The Resident Magistrate, Macloutsie - * 57 20. The Colonel Commanding the Bechuanaland Border Police - - - - 59 21. The Ordnance and Commissariat Officer.* On the Health of the Bechuanaland Border Police. 22. The Senior Medical Officer, Macloutsie,* 23. The Medical Officer, Gaberone*;.* 24 The District Surgeon, Mafeking.* I have to express my regret that there has been some delay in forwarding these reports owing to press of other work since my return in April last. * Not priatecl. COLONIAL REPORTS.—ANNUAL. 5 During my absence on leave Mr. F. J. Newton, C.M.G., Barasa Colonial Secretary and Receiver-General, acted as Administrator "^•OWAITA. and Chief Magistrate. VSM. The public service has sustained severe loss in the deaths — of the late Surveyor*General, Mr. A. Moorrees, and of the late Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of Mafeking, Mr. A. G. Hatchard. Mankoroane, Chief of the Batlapin, died at Taungs in November last and was succeeded by his eldest son, Molala. The following is a summary of the contents of these reports :— I. The Receiver-General furnishes comparative statements of the revenue of the Crown Colony, and of the expenditure in British Bechuanaland and the Protectorate, during the last four financial years. The Customs returns are satisfactory ; those from hut tax, licenses, revenue stamps, transfer duty, auction duty and fines and fees, are normal. The sum of 9,182/. due for quit-rents :s fully secured. The receipts under Posts and Telegraphs, which were con­ siderably over-estimated by the then Postmaster-General in November 1891, show a falling off, partly in consequence of the opening of direct railway communication between Cape Town and Johannesburg via Colesberg and Bloemfontein. The increase in the Protectorate Revenue is satisfactory and will be augmented by the admission of the Protectorate into the South African Customs Union. The total revenue exclusive of land sales is satisfactory, in view of the withdrawal of the contribution of 3,100/. formerly paid by the British South Africa Company towards the cost of Adminis­ tration in the Protectorate. The decrease, if land sales be included, is due to the fact that practically no sales of land whatever were effected last year for reasons stated by the officer in charge of the Surveyor-General's Deportment. The only items of expenditure calling for remark are the following: (v.) Legal Including the maintenance of gaols and administration of justice, the expenditure has been considerably less than was estimated. Convict labour on public works has proved to be valuable and a means of making the amounts authorised for public works extra­ ordinary go much further than they otherwise would. (vii.) District Administration. A considerable saving has been effected. (viii.) Posts and Telegraphs. A saving has been effected both on the estimates and on the actual expenditure of the previous year. This Department has l>een placed under the Postmaster-General of the Cape Colony. COLONIAL REPORTS.—ANNUAL, BRITISH (ix.) Police. B*w*v*k ^ saving hag been effected in the cost of providing for forage 1892-3. and grain and also remounts. Disbursements on account of deferred pay have been large. (x.) Education. On the report of Mr. Ely, an Inspector of Schools in the Cape Colony, an increased grant on the £ for £ principle has been sanctioned. (xiii.) Surveyor- General. In consequence of the death of the late Surveyor-General in February Inst, it was found impossible to make various payments for which provision had been made. (xiv.) Public Works Extraordinary. The sum of 11,000/. was sanctioned by Her Majesty's Govern­ ment for last year, and 3,000/. for the purchase and maintenance of two boring machines. A Foreman of Works was temporarily appointed, but the amount exp aided on Public Works extra­ ordinary was only 6,512/., and the sum of 1,600/. was expended on the purchase and maintenance of two diamond drill boring machines. General Remarks. 1 he chief export trade has been in wood for fuel at the diamond mines of Griqualand West, and is now falling off as railway development is bringing coal to Kimbcrley. 2. The Crown Prosecutor gives a list ^legislative Proclamations during the year ending 31st March last in the Crown Colony, Protectorate, and adjacent territories. There has been a marked diminution of crime, save that stock thefts have been frequently committed by Cape Colonial Kaffirs squatting on farms owned by Europeans. The law prohibiting the supply of liquor to natives has been rigidly enforced. 3. The Surveyor-General's department, through Mr. Windley, reports that the trigonometrical survey d the territory was extended through part of Gordonia by Mr. Bosnian, with excellent results, for a length of about 135 miles and an average breadth of 11 miles, or an area of about 1,500 square miles. Private properties throughout the district of Vryburg, and part of that of Mafeking, have been surveyed and connected with the trigonometrical base. Four surveyors have Uen employed in Gordonia on private properties, Government farms, and blocks of vacant Crown land. The village of Keimoes has been Ibid out and the commonage of Upington has been surveyed, The boundary line fixed by a Commission between the Chief Montsioa and Batwen has not yet been demarcated. The boundary between the Protectorate and the South African Republic has been beaconed from Kamathlabama to Matlase, a distance ot 13 milea. 4 COLONIAL REPORTS.—ANNUAL. 7 The admission of land surveyors to practise in British Burma Bechuanaland has been regulated by a legislative Proclamation. *™*x£*km Four farms hypothecated to Her Majesty's Government have been 1392 4. sold and two granted for public purp *>ses at Vryburg and Mafeking respectively. There has been a considerable demand for land, but i*o §nle8 have been effected owing to the prohibitive price osked by Government. This has been to some extent remedied by the reduction of the price from 3#.
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