§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that civil surgeons attached to the Field Force in South Africa do not receive Colonial allowance; and, in view of the fact that the cost of living at the seat of war entails heavy expense, will he consider the expediency of increasing the allowances of these officers.
*LORD STANLEYI have nothing to add to the full reply given by my right hon. friend the Chief Secretary to a ques- 65 tion on this subject put by my friend the Member for the Clapham Division on the 7th August, 1900.†