ABSTRACT
The following circular has been issued to commanding officers from the War-office:—“Such wives of soldiers, belonging to regiments on service in India, as are within the prescribed establishment, and are now at their homes, and in receipt of a special allowance of sixpence a day each, while unable to be present with the regiment, will be permitted to join their husbands on their return from India, and will be allowed, at the public expense, the necessary cost of their journey, either to the head-quarters of the regimental depot, or the invalid depot, Chatham. They should, therefore, be apprised, as early as possible, of the return of their husbands to England, in order that they may apply to the paymaster at the nearest military station, to issue the necessary passage or railway warrants and subsistence for the journey. The allowance granted to the wives during the absence of their husbands will cease from the date of the return of the latter to this country, whether their wives rejoin them or not. This will apply also to children, on account of whom the allowance of twopence a day is similarly paid.”
