Sir Edward Grigg, the Governor of Kenya, speaking to the
African Society on Tuesday, said that the con- troversy about Labour and other questions in -Kenya was misleading. He desired to make it perfectly clear that there was no compulsion on the African to work for the European. The African could Work in the native reservations or outside, as ..he pleased, and it was untrue to say that there was " indirect compulsion' Upon him by means of taxation. There could he no progress for the African, however, until he learned habits of industry, and if he was to prosper on his own land he must be trained to develop it. The natives ought to have security of tenure, and the best solution was that which was going to be put into force, namely, that the reservations should be in the keeping of inde. pendent trustees.
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