§ MR. DUNBAR, asked the Secretary of State for War, How many candidates have presented themselves at the examination now going on for admission to the Army Medical Department; whether it had been annonnced that fifty appointments would be offered for competition; and whether he is aware that fifty candidates have presented themselves for the twenty-seventh appointments in the Indian Medical Department offered for competition?
MR. GATHORNE HARDY, in reply, said, that while 23 candidates had presented themselves for the 50 appointments offered in the Army Medical Department, 49 candidates had offered themselves for 27 appointments in the same branch of the Indian Service.