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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 498, 27 October 1882, Page 11

Messrs. Walterh and Co., 47 Victoria street, Christchurch, furnish all funeral requisites and conduct funerals at extremely moderate rates, and in a very satisfactory manner generally to those who employ them. The private reflections of the ■' educated native " upon the proposal to throw part of the cost of the Egyptian expedition upon the Indian finances are probably of a somewhat bitter and sarcastic kind. The contribution of this country to the Afghan War Bill may seem to him dearly bought if it involves the implication of India in the European quarrels of the Empire. It must be confessed that ther« ii a peculiar infelicity about the arrangement now proposed. We are now proposing to saddle India with part of thecost of a war in which no native can feel himself directly interested, except by going through a circuitous process of reasoning, involving some propositions not intirely self-evident. This is one of the consequences of governing by sentiment. Neither England nor India, but Egypt, ouglit to pay the expenses of restoring to Egypt the inestimable blessings of settled government and honest administration. — Statist