§ MR. KEKEWICHsaid, he would beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War, Whether the Commanding Officers of the various Corps in New Zealand have preferred any claims to the proceeds arising from the sale of lands captured from the enemy, and whether the Government has any intention of paying them a part of those proceeds as prize money?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON,in reply, said, it was the fact that some of the troops in New Zealand had applied for a share of the prize money arising from the proceeds of the land captured by the troops; but he was not aware that in any case, under any circumstances, had land captured by military operations been treated as prize money, and therefore it had been intimated that the application in question could not be complied with.