HC Deb 15 April 1878 vol 239 c1286
SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL

asked the Secretary of State for War, If he can be so good as to inform the House who is paying for the military operations now going on in South Africa?

COLONEL STANLEY

, in reply, said, it had been arranged that the Governor of the Colony should issue his warrant monthly for the Colonial military expenditure. In point of fact, that admitted formally the liability of the Colony; but there was no doubt that the matter would have to be arranged with the Colony. As a matter of fact, the advances would be made good out of the Imperial fund.