Oral Answers to Questions — India – in the House of Commons am ar 9 Hydref 1924.
Mr Reginald Fletcher
, Basingstoke
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can communicate any information relative to the reported killing of Charles Edward Rimmer, a British subject, at Puerto Castilla, Honduras, on the 21st August, 1924?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby
, Sheffield, Brightside
According to a report from the British Consul at Trujillo, Mr. Edward Rimmer, of Liverpool, was murdered by a labourer on the 21st August. The Consul stated that the local authorities were taking measures for the capture of the murderer.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
