SIR WILLIAM CROSSMAM (Portsmouth)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether, considering the inconvenience experienced by some 1183 retired Officers of the Indian Army in only receiving their pensions quarterly in arrears, it could be arranged to pay those pensions monthly instead of quarterly in future?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)(who replied) said: The late Secretary of State in Council went very fully into this question in March, 1886, and decided that there was no sufficient reason for incurring the additional expense which would be caused by the alteration of the existing practice.