It is estimated that over 600,000fr wortk of flowers were sold in Paris on Assumption Day. The House of Commons committee of public accounts report that the total cost of the Abyssinian war, so far as ascertained up to the present time, amounts in round nnmbsrs to £8,950,000. But there are further charges, not yet settled, amounting to something over £30,000, and it is almost impossible to state positively that no more claims will be put forward by the Government oi India.
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Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 3215, 20 December 1875, Page 2
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