§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he can state whether, when the orders placed up to 1905 are completed, the total number of rifles for the Army, Navy, Auxiliary, and Colonial Forces will amount to 276,000 of the new 817 pattern and 276,000 of the converted pattern.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOE WAR (Mr. ARNOLD-FORSTER, Belfast, W.)276,000 is the total number of new and converted rifles ordered up to 1905.