§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked the Secretary of State for War, To supply the details, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated could then be best furnished, as to the rates of conversion used for issuing the coins in exchange for the rupee, which is the coin in which the pay of Native troops 995 brought from India to Europe is fixed; and explain the rates of conversion used, also the conditions on which settled; and, whether the Indian Governments at Home and in India have taken any and what part in fixing the rates?
§ COLONEL STANLEY, in reply, said, according to the terms of agreement with the Indian Government, the Native troops would receive pay at the rate of 2s. per rupee, as was the case in the Abyssinian War, and the British officers at the rate of 1s. 9d. per rupee. The adjustment of the rate of conversion is settled annually by the Treasury in due concert with the Indian Office.