... Stand- ing Committee. NURSES AT THE FRONT. In reply to Mr Weir, Mr WYNDHAM, said the total number of norses employed in South Africa was 514 at rates of pay varying from £30 a year, with allowances in the case of the Army Nursing Service, to two guineas a ...

... public. TFIE QUEEN'S COTOCOLATE. -cT. POWELL, WILLI3AS$, replying . to Mr; Broadaruret, said it bad not been reported that fthe trcops who were in LadyEmith during the siege had not received the Queen's chorolate. Any claimant for the Queen's gift wvho ...

... one war-br enforcig the t existing military law. He proposed next -wee-I .to move the following resolution --That this- i House, having heard the proposal of the Govern- Imeat for the strengthening of the military forces and arms, is of opinion that ...

... assurance that he can desire on that sebjeet. (Ministerial cheers.) THE IMPERIAL YEOMANRY. Mfr. WVYNDnAn, in reply to Mr. Hobbouse, said that 1,900 men and 1,700 horses of the Imperial Yeomanry were awaiting embarkation, and of theseit was expected that ...

... answer any exercise which the secretary of State may see fit to make of his discretion to publish daispatches and reports on military opera- tions. (Cheers) Mr MACNEILL-May I ask whether these despatches have arrived? That is a plain ques- i tion. Yes or ...

... Viscount CRAN BORNE, in reply to Mr Pirie, said Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constanti- nople presented a letter from the Queen to His Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey on the I Ist of September congratulating him on attain- 1 ing the 25th anniversary of ...

... IMPERIAL YEOMANRY. Idi 3. DRILLS AND INSPECTION-LIST OF tc MEN ACCEPTED. t . ?? d The Duke of Marlborough is to be Orderly r Officer on the Imperial Yeomanry Staff. 2. The first parade in Oxford of the Oxfordshire as n company of imperial Yeomanry took ...

... the Bill vwas unnecessary. because he feit convinced tlat the prerogative of the Queen extended to the prohibition of the ecnortation o' a=rm. ansm.snizion, and military;v I and naval stores. But while the Bill professed to give I power to the Sovereign ...

... he I The Ranks of Volunteer and M/ilitary tihc er ' Officrs.. t mn L ord RAGLAN asked the Government if thet~ 1o ! Secretary for War was aware that grantingi he tem2porary rank in the army to officers of the i to Imperial Yeomanry end Irnoerial Voelunteers ...

... guilty of the military 1 vcrime of preferring political to military con- nasiderations. (Irish cheers.) He wras a. man who t- reasons. (Rienewed Irish chaers.) As to their II ey in formation, he (Sir C. Dilke) declared that they t ?? the military resources ...

... will make enquiries. (Hear, hear.) ADMINISTRATION OF MILITARY LAW. Mr. WYmxEAK informed Mr. H. D. Green that a deputy judge-advocate (Colonel St. Clair) was supervis- ing the administration of military law in South Africa, and uwas asisted by a barrister ...

... Artillery has been accepted by the Secretary of State for three months' military service at Alderstiot. This is in reply to an offer made by the biigade in Decem-' her to perform homea service. 'The news was, aunodnoed at special parade of the Newport battery ...