INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

Evening Star, Issue 11251, 26 May 1900, Page 3

INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

Mr G. L. Denniston, general treasurer, acknowledges the following additional subBcripiious:— Mrs Paxton, 2s Cd ; P. Paxton, 2s Gd; Mrs P M Gregor, ss; teachers and children Waitati him day school (per R Landroth). £2 2s: Mount Ida Presbyterian Cnureh (per Hov. .). M’Cosli hmith), £l3 IDs ; colh. cted by Master Willie R OSB Creep Valley, Wuihemo (including A. D. Bril X2 2s, W. Budey £l, A. I), Miller £l),£s 2sluieri Perry school children (“Absentminded Beggar” concert), 13s Gd; collected by Master James Burns. ■ Green Valiev Warhemo, £1; pupils Waihemo School, 8a 3d ■ collected 111 Hawthorne uvenuo by Dora. Wyra uua Ruth, Sa 7d ; A Conntrv Teacher, 15** collect ti;m Prcsbyiermu Church, Whale Flat (per Chns. rin lay), J_ 1 “-s Gd; olfertoiies St. Matthew’s Gnurch, Dunedin (Ascension Day, second contribution), £8 Its; A Friend, 3s previously acknowledged, £3, a 48s lid. Total, £3, SKI 3s '.id. The {secretary of State for lonia has received the following telegram from the Viceroy on tho subject of" the famine “ The numbers demanding relief have continued to increase, except in Punjab, whero harvesting of irrigated,crops gives some employment. Number of persons in receipt of reliefßomba., 1,272,000 ; Punjab, 200,000 ; Central Provinces, 1,552.000 ; Btrar, 362,000; Ajmer-Me wura, ’ 115 000 • Rajputano States, 458,000) Central India States, 82.000; Bombay Native State' 501,000; Biroda, 66,000; North-West. Pro! vincc.s. 3,000; Punjab Nativs States, 21,000; Centra! Provinces Feudatory Sates, 51.00J ; Hyderabad, 285,000; Madam, 8,000total, 4,070,000. Pnnjib and Central Pro* vinces figures incomplete.”