The Friend of India and Statesman Friday April 18th 1879

The assurances meanwhile of the Ministry that the expedition as accomplished its objects and that the war is over will recoil heavily upon them when the nation wakes up to the fact that instead of being over the war to all human appearances is only just beginning. [...] The consequence was that when the spear went home into a human body the shaft remained intact but if it struck a shield a tree or the ground it snapped and became useless to the enemy." The heads of the weapon are of several different descriptions. [...] Therein the desire to find grace in the eyes of the powers that be ; there is a laudable pleasure in helping forward a work which will in some sort be a memorial of all the shareholders ; and there is the advantage of a perfectly safe investment for hoards which would otherwise lie in the ground or be thrown out at the mercy of mortgages upon which no man can rely. [...] and for the rest of the year they lie buried full fathom five" under the domestic hearth or below the moulded effigy of the household god in a niche in the wall. [...] Most questions are exhaustively dealt with by the Town Council and at the general meetings of the Municipality little re:.ains to be done but to receive and approve of the recte:_..4ndatious of the Town Council.