INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11366, 8 May 1900, Page 6

INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

! GOVERNMENT GRANT OF £5000. [DY TELEGRAPH,—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] 1 Wellington-, Monday., ', Cabinet has decided to supplement private ; donations to the Indian famine fund by a ' grant of £5000 from the Treasury. . I The following subscriptions to the aboyo ' have been received by Mr. George Fowlds, 1 M.H.R., treasurer of the Council of hvan- ' gelical Churches of Auckland: — ■ Amount previously acknowledged £369 1 10 i Maungaturoto Congregational : Church 13 0 , M.F ,•••••• 1 0 0 Auckland Adult School, Wake-field-street 2 14 0 Auckland Tabernacle (previously contributed £26, which appeared under other names) 51 15 6 Devonport Wesleyan Sunday-school (scholars' prize money) 5 4 6 G. Feltham 0 2 0 T. E. Montgomery 10 0 St. Luke's Church, ...Remuera... 17 18 8 "Roberts" 10 0 Auckland Tabernacle (additional) 0 10 6 Wesleyan Church (Takapuna £1 Is, Lake Hall 17s 9d) ... _ ... 118 9 Victoria Hall, Avondalc Mission... 2 3 4 ; £455 12 1 ; The members of the Auckland Stock Exchange, at a meeting yesterday, decided to donate the sum of 20 guineas to the Indian famine fund, and a cheque for that amount was handed to the treasurer of the hind in the evening by Mr. F. Oldham, the secretary of the Stock Exchange. Offertory collections wore made on Sunday. May 6, at Holy Trinity Church, Otahuhu, in aid of tho Indian famino relief fund. The amount collected was £9 13s. • The churchwardens (Dr. Rowley and Mr. E. J. Matthews) will thankfully receive, any time before next Friday, contributions from those who were not prepared to give their offerings on Sunday, or were prevented from attending church on that day. In reply to the Premier. Mr. W. J. Napier, M.H.R., has forwarded the following tcleTam:— "I quito think that the dreadful visitation of famine which is now afflicting our fellow subjects in India should arouso our charitablo instincts to the highest dogrce. As there is already a fund started here for tho object, would it not be well to supplement that fund by a sum from the public exchequer, instead of possibly closing up tho springs of individual charity by sending an independent amount direct." The town clerk has been notified by the Chief Postmaster, Auckland, that remittances on account of the Indian famine fund will be cabled free.