Show In the Commons LONDON June 20In the Commons this evening Sir Henry Holland Secretary Secre-tary of State for the Colonies replying to Mr Howard said that Sir Samuel Rowe Governor of Sierra Leone had informed the government that a conference held between the French and natives had resulted in hoisting the Irench flag at Bariboo on the Gambia River While not under the British protectorate he said Bariboo was within the sphere of British influence influ-ence and the native chiefs were under treaty obligations to England The establishment es-tablishment of the French protectoral would have an important bearing on British influence in that district Sir Henry said that dispatches were being exchanged between the French and British governments in regard to the matter |