Coker enlisted the aid of the King of Idah and subjected employees suspected of theft to ordeal by poison (sasswood); Brass died. Coker was sentenced to hang.

About original land agreements and boundary markers to clarify ex-Chartered territory [to be enclosed with fol. 173].

On the situation on the German frontier after Capt. Dominick's suppression of a rising by the deposed Emir of Yola and King of Murua; and the advisability of acceding to Dominick's invitation to the Company to open a factory at 'Gurua' [sic] [see fols. 174, 184-186, 293, 315, 323, 367-368, 444].

(fols. 171-172) Extract copied from Company letter from Watts enclosing: (fols. 164-168) copies of correspondence between Robert Brown, agent at Lokoja, and Allen Upward, Resident of Kabba Province (fols. 169-170) a letter of his own to Lugard. All concerning problems of recruitment of carriers at Lokoja, by the Company for work at Burutu, and by...

Letter to enclose fols. 154-159.

Reporting Dominick's threat to establish a German firm at Garua (Garoua) and block frontier trade if the Company did not accept his invitation.

Letter from Alex Miller to Scarbrough (fols. 80-81) enclosing one from Kirk to Miller (fols. 72-79) reporting a discussion with Lugard about: mining concessions trading in the North and up the Benue River to Yola Mr Dangerfield's peculiarities the problem of small-scale indigenous traders Indian immigration banking ...

Enclosing: a completed questionnaire (fol. 85) sent to him by Flint copies of correspondence with Lugard (Jul 1900, bound fols. 88-90). All concerning forms of government and Company pay for labour (fol. 85 endorsed with a note [by Flint?] of Leases, see fol. 87).

See also fol. 91. Also mentioning meeting to discuss the leasing site at Lokoja.

Also about the relation between cash wages for government employees and payment in goods made by the Company [enclosed in fols. 82-85].

On: 'Disc system preferable to Agency', giving the writer's reasons for his preference [this bears an addition in Morley's? hand] freight rates reasons against reducing quantity of labour employed.

Includes: (fol. 93) letter (fols. 94-98) copies of correspondence with Leslie Probyn, Officer Administering the Government Southern Nigeria, enclosed, about missing original deeds for properties transferred on Revocation. The copied list of Agreements is annotated in two hands [F.W. Brett and Flint?].

About: (fols. 103-108, 115-116, 118, 124) wages, and the rebate on profits from Company goods sold to government employees (fols. 109-114, 116-117, 119, 125-126) prospecting regulations; and a prospector, 'McDonald' [George Macdonald?; see below] (fols. 116, 118) sparing the vessel, 'Liberty', for government river work (fols. 120-123, 127-131) about the...