§ MR. PIRIEI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War if it is the case that a new edition of "Queen's Regulations for the Army" is about to be issued; what are the years in which the last five editions have been published; whether regulations can be devised which would command longer continuity; and whe- 491 ther, seeing that regimental and other officers have been hitherto compelled to provide themselves with the latest editions of the regulations at their own expense, the present issue can be provided for them without charge.
§ * MR. WYNDHAMA new edition of the Queen's Regulations is in course of preparation. Editions were published in 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1898. Every effort is made to reduce the number of alterations in these and all other regulations, but a considerable number of changes are unavoidable, and it is with the special object of relieving officers of the incessant posting up of the copies in their possession that an annual edition is issued. It is not proposed to distribute the Queen's Regulations to officers free of cost. The retail price of the book is eighteenpence.