INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 112, 12 May 1900, Page 5

INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

[BY TELEGRArn — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHHISTCIItTRCIT, 11th May. The Mayor to-day cabled £200 to the Viceroy of India lor the Indian Famine Fund. NAPIER, 11th May. The Mayor yesterday cabled £200 to the Viceroy of India as the first instalment from the local Famine Fund. Including the sum collected by the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Te Ante, over £1000 has been raised in this district. The following are the latest additions to the Indian Famine Fund (Mayor of Wellington's list) : — Featherston residents, £10; "J.A.," £1; "W.W.5.," Manaroa, 10s ; collected at Evening Post office, £61 12s 6d ; Thorndon Wesleyan Church and Sunday School, £9 9s fed ; proceeds of Foresters' gala tickets, sold at Johnsonville, 10s; E. W. Lowe, £2; Kirkcaldie and Stains, £10 105 ; Kaiwarra Wesleyan Sunday School, £2 7s sd ; collected at the general meeting of the Wellington College Old Boys' Association, £2 7s 6d; Wesleyan Literary and Debating Society, £2 2s; collected by Mrs. MacDougall, £1 Is; Stratford residents, £12 (second instalment) ; collected by Mrs. Thomas, £26; by Mrs. Blair, £3 13s ; by Mrs. Hindley, 4s 6d ; by Mrs. Fulton, £4 15s 9d; by Mrs. Dunlop, £3 17s 6d; by Mrs. Denton, £4 Is 6d; by Mrs. W. R. Williams, £16 10s; by Mrs. Miller, £4 3s; by Mrs. Wright, £1 18s 9d ; by Mrs. Glasson, £6 13s; by Mrs. Lewis, £8 17s; by. Mrs. Jones, £2 0s 6d; by Mrs. Tonks, £5 4s 7d; by Mrs. J. P. Luke, £24 7s ; by Mrs. James Smith and Mrs. Dumbell, £11 12s Id; by Miss Sloan and Miss Forsyth, £17 19s 6d ; by Miss Duncan, £1 15s 9d; by Mrs. Chapman, £12 17s 8d; by Mrs. Gibbs, £15 14s; by Mrs. Remington, 14s 6d ; by Mrs. Metcaff, £2; by Mrs. Copithorne, £5; by Mrs. Lockwood, £1 6s lid ; by Mrs. Lindsay, £9 13s; C. A. Knapp, £3 3s; WS.S, £1; T. C. Williams, £20. It will •be seen by reference to the church service advertisements in another column that in some of the churches to-morrow collections will be taken up in aid of the Indian Famine Fund. ' A substantial donation to the Fund will result from a happy thought of a Waimate resident, Mr. J. Barr. This gentleman offered a handsome flag to be competed for by the Hutt and Taita School children, the flag to go to the school which collected most money per head for the Indian Famine Fund. The substantial sum of £20 has been collected by the Taita school children, and they should stand a very good chance of securing the prize. At this week's meeting of the Johnsonville Town Board it was resolved that subscriptions lists be opened in the district for the Indian Famine Relief Fund, and that the lists be placed in the shops in the village, subscriptions to be sent in by next Board meeting. The Mayor of Wellington this morning received the following cable message from Calcutta : — "Our warmest thanks for your second and third instalments to the Famine Fund.— Francis M'Lean."— Another £300 was sent to-day.