HC Deb 25 June 1874 vol 220 cc423-4
MR. ION HAMILTON

asked the Secretary of State for "War, Whether it is his intention to recommend Her Majesty's Government to give the same remuneration to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who were engaged on the West Coast of Africa during the Ashantee War that the troops who were in Abyssinia received, viz. six months' Indian pay and allowances?

MR. GATHORNE HARDY

Sir, there is no such intention as is referred to in the Question of the hon. Member. The Abyssinian Expedition was an Indian one, and the expedition to Ashantee was not.