English Treasury Principles.
... '..!»■ ' .■ It is one of the traditions of the Colonial Office that, the Transvaal was lost to the Empire, and a war subsequently incurred which cost us a million in cash dow.i, to say nothing of the loss of prestige, and the loss of many men, entirely through the refusal of a Treasury clerk to sanction the allowance of an extra £200 a year, which it was necessary to pay the official through whom our relations with the Boers could have been conducted harmoniously. The parsimonious Treasury docked the £200 a year, the official resigned, his place waa taken by an an inoompe-
' tent successor who in a very short time was at loggerheads with tha Boers, with the Majuba Hill arl Laugs Nek disasters, . and the r;e3t iblishment of the Transvaal E - pu )lic as the immediate consequence of -nan Treasury blunder. -
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Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1892, Page 2
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145English Treasury Principles. Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1892, Page 2
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