§ MR. SHEE (Waterford, W.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War if he can state what increases have been made in respect of bounty, pay, and allowances for Army Reservists, Army time-expired Reservists, Militia, and Militia Reservists, respectively, since the beginning of the war in South Africa.
§ * MR. WYNDHAMThe chief increases have been in the rate of separation allowance granted to men's families, in the bounties granted to Militiamen re- 1304 engaging, and in the amount of furlough with pay to be given on demobilisation. Two new grants, as distinguished from increases to old grants, have been made, viz., the special bounty of £22 to the Royal Reservists, and the grant of halfpay to the families of men leaving Government employment to serve with the Army or embodied Militia.