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CHAPTER XXIX - THE INTERVENTION OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

Samuel Johnson
Edited by
Obadiah Johnson
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MEASURES BY GOVERNOR MOLONEY

About the end of January, 1886, the Government of Lagos was severed from that of the Gold Coast, and Lagos was constituted a separate colony with Capt. A. C. Moloney as its first Governor. One of his first public acts was to feel his way towards the settlement of the interior difficulties.

In an interview the writer (who happened to be at Lagos at the time) had with his Excellency on the 23rd of January the topic of conversation turned mainly on the state of things in the interior and he asked the writer to put down in writing an account of the interview, stating all he knew about the complications from the commencement, and what prospect there was of peace; also to give the names of the principal chiefs of Ijebu, Abeokuta, Ibadan, Ekiti, and Ilorin concerned in this war, and an account of the visits of the Rev. J. B. Wood to both camps in 1884, and also to state his opinion as to how they might receive some one like himself coming among them to settle their difference for them. This the writer did in a long letter to H. E. the Governor.

The Governor was then resolved to make use of the writer as a messenger to the Ibadan camp, and of the Rev. C. Phillips to the Ekiti camp.

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The History of the Yorubas
From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate
 , pp. 508 - 537
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1921

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