COLONEL LOCKWOODI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any conclusion has been arrived at as to the extra allowance of £100 for Third Secretaries in the Diplomatic Service?
§ * SIR E. GREYPending the settlement of the new arrangement, Third Secretaries will be permitted, if they pass the examination in International Law, to draw the extra allowance of £100 as formerly.
§ * SIR E. GREYIt will operate in this way. Anyone entitled to apply for it, but not having applied for it during the last few months, will be enabled to apply now.