This is a comment on Basel Committee Protocol 1895 paragraph 34, which in turn was a reply to questions on slavery and pawning put by the Twi District Conference and Twi Synod in 1895. Müller's own comment on the situation that as with many laws if…
A report on events in the Volta Region, especially relations with the German Regime, and acts of the latter. In view of the approaches made to Clerk by Baumann, an official of the German colonial regime, with regard to the founding of a station at…
Offers the information that while in the outstations in Kwahu only on the average 9 of the 14 scholars on the list will go to school in any 6 month period, in Bompata in the last 6 months, 25 of the 26 scholars on the list have done so. The…
There are 112 pupils in the school, 57 of them boarding boys, 30 of those heathen. There had been changes in the teaching personnel - Preko was posted to Tafo, and replaced by Monitor Wm Asare. Benj Martinson went to Nkwatia after D. Okyere's death.…
Celebrates Hodgson's letter, and suggests that stations be set up in Nkoranza and either Kumawu or Mampong. He also asks for additional staff in early 1896 — 3 missionaries, young, but experienced and practical men (he suggests Lochmann, Kurz and…
Informs him that Stewart and Vroom were going to Kumasi with a letter which was more or less an ultimatum to accept a British resident by 31st October or have an expedition sent against him. The letter also contains what news the Governor has of the…
While in Accra on his return from Europe Ramseyer had had an interview with Governor Hodgson and the new Governor who gave him a good hope that the Kumasi question would be ‘sorted out before the end of the year.'
Concerns a proposal to extend the east wing of the mission house at right angles in a two-storey building - shortage of accommodation caused partly by their having school boys from Asante Akim as house servants.
The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1895, pp 82-83. Additional points in the manuscript: Bowi, the old priest of Atie Yaw was still alive in Accra. The new priest was from Nteso, a village near Tafo. Although Asante, the Nkwatiahene sent him…
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