INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11368, 10 May 1900, Page 5

INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

The following subscriptions to the above have been received by Mr. Geo. Fowlds, M.H.R., treasurer \of the- Council of Evangelical Churches of Auckland district:-

Amount previously acknowledged £511 5 3 Ernest Moore 0 10 0 "Sympathy" 5 0 0 "Parnell" 10 0 £517 15 3 His Worship the Mayor during the past few days has received the following amounts:~ Henry Goodfellow, To Awamutu, £50; Captain Kelly, Reniuora, £1; Oarr, Johnston, and Co., £5 ss; per Rev. O. R. Hewlett, Papakura, £3 8s; Wairoa, £1 12s 6d;'Papakura Valley, £2 3s 9d; Dairy, 18s; Ardmore, Us Id; Weymouth, £1 3s 6d; O. E. Button, £2 2s; Mr. and Mrs. Godevier, £1; Arch. Clark and Sons (Limited), £10 10s; L. I). Nathan and Co., £20. Per Rev, George MacMurray: Anonymous, £5; Anonymous, 10s; Mr. Thomas Newton, £1; Mr. M. J. Gay, £1 Mr, Arch, Clements, 10s; Miss Jackson, £1; Children of Industrial School, 2s 6d; Anonymous, 10s; Anonymous, 12s 6tl; Anonymous, 2s 6d; Mrs. (Jay, 10s; Miss Gay, 10s; M. M. Taylor, £1; F.S.M., 10s; Sympathiser, 10s; Hill and Phnnmor, £3; Tonson Garlick Co. (Limited), factory employees, £3 7s; Auckland Stock Exchange, £21; 0. .1. Wilson, £1; Cheerful, £4 4s; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile staff, £7 9s; Mrs. Pollard, 10s; Terry Holt, £1; previously acknowledged, £32 4s OJd; total, £187 Is 4Jd. His Worship is transmitting £125 to India.

[BY TELEGRAPH.— CORRESPONDENT.] Wanganui, Wednesday. The total subscribed to the Indian famine relief fund to date is £311 19s 2d. The Mayor will to-day cable a third £100 from Wanganui, two similar instalments having already been sent.

[lIY TELKQBAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] GiSBOBNE, Wednesday. Local subscriptions to tho Indian famine fund total £235.

Tho Rev. Rockwell Clancy, a missionary at Allahabad, who is visiting his brother in the United States, says: "Th-i condition of stricken India to v is something awful to contemplate. I cannot tell anything about tho number dying, but when I left Bombay last February thorc were somo 60,000,000 pcoplo suffering, and over 30,000,000 were m dire distress, and of those but 5,000,000 were receiving Government aid, It is not the cities but the country places which aro stricken, and when you know that it is mostly among tho agricultural classes and that 80 per 'cent, of the population of India is made up of tillers of the soil you may be able to grasp in some slight manner the extent of tho Buffering at the prcsont time. When the famine sot in the people began to sell everything they had that thoy might get a little grain food. They took tho doors from their houses and sold them, sold their furniture and farming utensils, and then when they had no longer anything to sell tliov sold their children. The boys don't sell well and the traffic is largely in girls. I saw girls in one town just before I came away being sold for 30 cents apiece. They wero bought up by Mohammedans. But thoy won't buy the boys, so when tho parents can no longer support their children they abandon them, and henceforth they must get on as best thoy can. Tlieso cast-offs congregate about tho doors of the grain merchants' shops, and the only way tho proprietors can get rid of thorn is to throw out handfnls of grain, scattering it wide. The children pick and pick all day, and at night perhaps are rewarded by having colleotod a single handful."