MILITAEY ITEMS.—REMOVAL OF THE 18th REGIMENT.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3399, 8 June 1868, Page 3

MILITAEY ITEMS.— REMOVAL OF THE 18th REGIMENT.

It is currently rumoured in Albert Barracks that a wing of the 18th Koyal Irish will leave here for Syd. ney some time during the month of August next, to be followed by the remaining wing in relief of the 50th Regiment, which it is believed will embark for England from the abovenwned port about the same time. It is also rumoured that the 73rd Regiment, from China, is the corps which will relieve the 18th in New Zealand, as the climate of the Celestial Empire has been the cause of an immense share of sickness among the men. Some men of the 18th Royal Irish, -who formerly served in the 3rd Madras European Regiment, during the 'Indian Mutiny, have been lately paid their share of the Band a and Kirwee prize money by the treasurer of the Commissariat Department, Albert Barracks The sum paid to the men for the first and second distributions amounted to £63 .each man. The following printed circular has been received by the last mail calling on further claimants, who served in the several other corps therein mentioned, to forward their claims to shares in the prize money in question :

"BA.NDA AND KIRWEfI PBIZE MONBT.— JHANZI " PBIZB MONBT. " Secretary's Office. Koyal Hospital, Chelsea, " March 11, 1868. " Notice is hereby given that the roll of officers and men of No. 6 Company, 14th Battalion (now G Battery, 14th Brigade), Royal Artillery, who were employed in the operations leading to the capture of Banda and Kirwee, between 19th April and 6th June, 1858, has been received at this Hospital from the Government of Indi*, with authority for the payment of the shares of prize money, including first and second distributions to which they are respectively entitled, and that such payment, in the proportion of i! 63 to each individual or private's share, will commence on the termination of onem/inth from this date. Notice is also 1 given that rolls of the following additional corps entitled to shares in the Jhanzi prize money for service with the Central In- ! dian field force between Ist April and 19th June, 1858, have been received, and that payment of shares j will commence at same time. Amount of a private's ' share, £i'J \ " Camel Corps — Consisting of a portidn of 80th' " Regiment ; one company of the 2nd Battalion, Rifle' Brigade^ -and one company of the 3rd Battalion, i Kifle Brigade. . r " 88th Regiment : Officers and men of the detach- 1 ment which crossed the river Jumna, and were present at the' siege and capture of C*l pee. " Claimants are recommended to apply by letter, in the first 'instance for the forms necessary to be used in"ihowing tneir" identity; and substantiating their claims." ' " Giffsai Htttt, <■ " " Secretary to the Commissionen."