Show WHAT WAR WITH BOERS HAS COST ENGLAND the tito chancellor of f the tile F show 0 that the expenditure var for the past three a ivr the li and expenditures presented in tai abe bouse house of commons monday by the chancellor of the exchequer sir michael hicks beace when opening the budget announcements showed a total ordinary expenditure for 03 estimated at with war charges amounting to making a grand total of which la Is below the tile total for 1101 2 the cost of the war or three year years was but to in addition to the hope of repayment from the wealth of the T cevaal there was their share in the chinese indemnity which was a very valuable asset and would probably be devoted to a reduction of the war debt the tile nationalist national st members ironically cheered the reference made mad a by the chancellor to the transvaal the chancellor of the exchequer estimated the total deficit for the present year at to the deficit must bo be ad to additional war eap exp A duty of ad per hundredweight Is imposed on flour and a duty of ad per hundredweight is placed on wheat the income tax is increased a in the pound sterling the war for I 1 this year on the basis of the present brixon at not including the cot cost of gra at the tile end of the war the trans porting of coops etc |