THE COST OF THE WAR.
Eeceived January 22, 10.33 p.m.
London, January 22. Privates James Considine and "William Bates, of the Seventh New Zealand Mounteds, have been wounded at Charlestown.
There are nearly 5000 blockhouses in the Transvaal and Orange Colonies, requiring 50,000 troop 3to garrison them.
In the House of Commons, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated the war had cost £46,300,000 from April to December last.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7370, 23 January 1902, Page 2
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