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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 240, 29 January 1877, Page 2

The Culcutta correspondent of th» Times makes the astounding statement, that the grand ceremonial at Del li to announce to India that Queen Victoria i«; Empress will cat £500,000. At a time when public works are stopped for want'. of money, and the Government fears the* loss of a tenth of its revenue from the decline in silver, half a million is to bet rown away for no purpose whatever,, except to gratify Lord Beaconsfield's lov* of the grandiose. Not a tenth per centof the population of India can see the ceremonial, and not ten per cent, will ever hear of it; yet a sum sufficient to educate a Province is to be flung away on moving soldiers, entertaining and paying the useless people who m'uUgK t« to pageantry. It ia too b*d»H

W tkm* toOt are asking, saya » noma paper, whether, in the inttter of the North lWe> Expedition, t!W game t» worth the candle. With »ttch people ?a thc».», it is sjarejly wurt!i while to stay to arjtia. Baft there is one fact which has been ■staid ttpun by ajatous utilitarians, an I ttat is, the «xisl.nce of oal within the Arctic reghns. Wtny, it' tais be ao, one of the greatest difficulties in t'te w*y of an expedition' wUkh shall assuredly sjt the question at rest for evwr, is rumuved ! To tie ptaek of the British seaman, join the skill of the engineers, and it is "Open Sesame!" The heretofore impenetrate portals are burst asunder, and tfie aecrut of that still gruat nnhno.vu region exposed to the eye of the world.