§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Joseph Black enlisted at Dumfries in 1855, and as sergeant volunteered at Aldershot when serving there in 1858 to the 11th Hussars, and served continuously in that regiment till 1871, and that he served again in the 5th Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers from 1873 till 1894, being; colour sergeant for the last fifteen years; whether he is aware that Black's pension on discharge is 8½d. per diem by reason of the last period only of his service being computed; whether Black has represented to the War Office that he engaged for the last period on the assurance given him, by H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, the late Commander-in-Chief, through his Colonel, Sir G. C. Walker, K.C.B., that, the whole of his service should be reckoned, for pension on discharge, and if inquiries have been made as to the accuracy of that, representation; and whether 8½d. a day is, according to War Office Regulations, the proper recompense for so long a, service.
MR. J. POWELL-WILLIAMSThis case has been frilly explained to the House on a previous occasion. The man received the pension to which he was entitled under regulations which apply to his service, and no one had any power to make any such promise as that referred to.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLIs the hon. Gentleman aware that the promise was distinctly made by the Duke of Cambridge?
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLThen you ought to be.
§ *MR. SPEAKEROrder, order!