THE GLASGOW BANK RELIFE FUND.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4286, 25 April 1879, Page 2

THE GLASGOW BANK RELIFE FUND.

The following letter has been tonrst&d ty jth. Mayor to the Lord Prorost ef CHm.o* »' . the above fund :— » - Chrißtchurch, New Zejdas'J, j April SstM»f l" The Honorable the Lord Provost of <&!£*• |, MyLord.—lhavethe honor to,"""^. 1 !? ' that in compliance with your cirenl!* I«**J£ I the 9th November last, r» t_eCi< t yc? UWCT * Bank Relief Fund, I called a public f the citizens of Christchnrch, and a « H! =?£*3 f was appointed to collect sabscriptioas bj •« - ths fund, bnt I regret to say their effosc|te - r ' only partially snccessf 01. However it w- .. * necessary to explain that the. ™? m r*JJL. I scarcely commenced their wash wo«n » ° .„_, | ful calamity occurred in the a-joiamS' P»*~ |' of Otafto (I refer to the Kaitangata <» !^L ft plosion) whereby some hundred or more pc.* t , chiefly widows and orphans, were Mnaewi paratively destitute. This sad iocsl t , t natarally overshadowed as it were ' distance, and the active sympatteß ot tea F-£ j. were enlisted to relieve those near « £>" This, coupled with the fo.( &_!, 1° Slrf ' of a long drought, wo bave bad, " the worst harvests ever cspen-ncea:» < bury which has caused a V sion in trade, these ™rcai_fta_ces «» »se® f hate made it difficult to obtain so WP>. f for the city of Glasgow sufferers as ?-<»"- ---otherwise been forthcoming. , t,-, dis* >* - , However, let ms assure yowr d&> Vi is from ao want of sympathy on *cc p» « ► dtirens of Chrifltchnrch, but a *«"S_-i»S» i\ prevaikid that onr first duty was «» r §£ s . 1 -,; ttestitate and fatherless at oar o*» __, (J .-, enclose herewith Bank &dt for «* «f* ff .45107 16s 7s, being the Mtt P***"* ft some small necessary expenses, i g I have the honor to »*, *f Tour Lordship's most obedietsi F