THE WAR GRANTS.
—- REASON FOR WITHHOLDING. CASE OF LORD"WOLSELEY. LONDON, Nov. 15. A well-informed authority has replied to Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson’s complaint that the war grants made to the naval and military leaders, including himself, were not to be paid until three generations had passed, and .that in the meantime only the interest on the amounts voted was made available. He states that Parliamentary grant • to successful generals were paid in cash until the late Lord Wolseley rapidly lost, through speculation in a sheep station in' Australia, the grant made to him in 1882 for the Egyptian campaign. Thereafter the Government decided to place such money in trust. A Sydne3’- paper says that a certain Mr. Wolseley was a partner in one or two sheep-raising ventures in the Riverina and in the north in the “eighties.” It was assumed that Lord Wblseley was his brother, and that Lord Wolseley was financially interested in the enterprise.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 December 1924, Page 5
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