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OUR ARMY.Sir. Stantopo has issued from the War office a Parliamentary paper in explanation of the Army estimates for 1891-2. The total asked for 13 17,545,300?-., or a decrease of 292,0001. compared -with the entire expenditure in the previous your. A sum of 14,944,5001. ia required for the personnel of the regular and auxiliary forces, 2,535,2501. for stores and supplies, and 1,034,8001. for administration, whilst 869,2501. must be deducted as appropriations in aid. With regard to the regular forces, the es~«m*ted cost of 5,173 regimental offi-is 1^437,400^., or 2871. 10a. per head ; and ot 136,148 non-commissioned officers and men, 7,575,0002., or 55J. 13s. 4tl. per head—making the effective roto in all 9,063,0001, The coat of the non-effective portion of the sem'ce is 2.613,500?. For the militia of the United Kingdom1,330,200?-. will bo demanded; militia of the Channel Islands, 18,7301.; Colonial militia, 16,2601.; tbo yeomanry, 101,030?. ; £e volunteers, 985,6101.; and the Army ve, 565,11:02.The 1st Kira's Liverpool regiment, ider the command of Colonel J. Ha.mil-• ^n, and consisting of 23 ©3ieera, 857 non-commissh ned o.^lcera and men,21 women, and 47 children, left Aldershot for Portsmouth. on Tuesday, end there embarked on board H.3I, -oopchip Orontea, for conveyance to Bermuda, to relieve the lot ^Leicestershire regiment, ordered to Halifax, llora. Scotia.
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Lloyds Weekly Newspaper
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Feb 15, 1891
Page 12
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