THE INDIAN FAMINE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 6792, 18 January 1897, Page 3

THE INDIAN FAMINE.

(PKB oHiamu FRESH associahok.)

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copybight.) Received January 17, at 5.3-5 p.m. London, January 16. The Mansion House fond in aid of the Indian famine has reached L 75,000. Calcutta, January 16. * The Maharajah of Dharbangha, one of the native princes of the Deccan, has remitted taxation to the extent of _ eight lakhs of rupees, and subscribed a similar amount to the relief fund.

The mortality in Bombay has reached 170 per day. The rapidly increasing plague has attacked rodents, swine, and poultry, which are dying in large numbers. Received Jannary IS, at 12.30 a m. London, January 17.

The P. and 0. Company subscribed LSQO and the Broken Hill Proprietary Company L 250 to tho Indian famine relief fund.

Received January IS, at 9.55 a.m. London, January IS. At a large meeting in connection with Mansion House Indian relief fund, the Lord Mayor of London presided. The Duke of Cambridge, Lord George Hamilton, and the Marquis of Linsdowne attended.

The Duke of Connaught warmly appealed to English sympathy towards her fellow subjects in their great trial. A resolution was passed inviting subscriptions to a national fund. Home disorder was occasioned by the submission of an amendment by Mr H. S. Hyndman, tho Socialist. The Lord Mayor refused to accept the amendment, and Mr Hyndman was ultimately expelled.