WHAT WAR COSTS.
Tito coat of different wars waged during .thepresentjreign may be given as follows: • £ 1840-44—First China war 2,201,025 1849-53—Kaffir war ... 2,060,000 1854-5, 1855-6—Russian . (war expenditure 1856 to 1873) 09,277,694 1856-7, 1860-1-China war(totai votes of credit) 6,640,693 1856-7—Persian war ...r 900,000 18G4-s—New Zealand war 764,829 1867-B—Abyssinian war 8,600,300. Non-official estimate of the cost of all subsequent wars and precautionary expenditure on account of wars down to the end of 1880 ...37,120,000 Grand total (in round thousands) .. .127,564,241 : This, of course, exclusive of the ordinary naval and military peace establishment, which amounts to- more than £26,000,000 per annum, nor does it include any portion of the cost of the army in India, or of tho Afghan wars, the latter of which cost £20,000,000 sterling, of which England paid £5,000,000.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1957, 6 April 1885, Page 2
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129WHAT WAR COSTS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1957, 6 April 1885, Page 2
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