§ MR. HAYDEN (Roscommon, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will inquire into the case of Thomas M'Donagh, late a private in the Connaught Rangers, and who served in South Africa during the recent war for 277 days, and received a wound at the battle of Pieter's Hill, from which he was subsequently invalided to Netley Hospital, and, after medical examination and by the direction of the Army medical authorities, was admitted as a free patient to the Royal Infirmary, but in whose case a stoppage of the 2s. per day whilst in hospital was made from his pay, and if he will be resouped this amount.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. ARNOLD-FORSTER, Belfast, W.)This pensioner was receiving free treatment at the Royal Infirmary, Dublin, and as it is not intended to grant at the same time the advantages of such treatment and a full pension, a part this man's pension was duly appropriated.