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the British taxpayer, who already provides naval 

 defence, should reasonably do more than enable 

 the local governments to balance revenue and 

 expenditure. This obligation, which is unquestion- 

 able, already imposes a heavy burden upon him. 

 Here are the figures of direct grants-in-aid of 

 revenue for the last five years, omitting the sums 

 paid to the Transvaal and Orange River Colony 

 in connection with the war, and omitting also, 

 from considerations of space, the explanations 

 attached to the votes in the estimates : 



At this stage it need only be mentioned that the 

 prospects of the African protectorates and colonies 

 should be better now that all have been placed 

 under one central administration, that of the Colo- 

 nial Office ; and that the Treasury keeps a very 

 strict hold over the disbursement of the grants- 

 in-aid. Lord Hindlip states, in an article upon 



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