INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND. DAILY TIMES LIST.

Otago Witness, Issue 2409, 3 May 1900, Page 27

INDIAN F AMINE RELIEF FUND. DAILY TIMES LIST.

St. Clair Congregational Church .. 4 4 0 Some residents of Lawrence . . v . . 4 0 0 Collection at annual harvest thanksgiving in St. Bathans Presbyterian Church 3 14 1 Chinese Mission Church, Walker street (per Rev. A. Don) . . . . 312 5 iMr Alex. Garden, Waitahuna (second list, with more to follow) : — Ml* Hugh Blaikie, £1 ; Hugh and Malcolm Blaikie, aged 10 and 8 respectively (two weeks' rabbit money), 10s 6d; Mat. M'Corkindale, ss; T. C, 3s 6d; R. V., 3s 6d; M. R., 2s 6d ; J. C, 2s ; G. 8., 2s ; R. 8., 2s; G. 8., 2s; J. 8., 2s; E. P., H. 8., M. G., C. 8., F. HJ 8., J. E., E. M'K., J. 8., Mrs A. WC, A. J M'C, N. MC, Is each; two children, 6d ; T. R., Is ; W. A., ' Is; Found, 6d; F. H., Is;— total 3 10 0 Proceeds of bazaar at North-East Valley 3 0 4 Stirling School children 2 4 10 Girton College 2 4 3 John G. Hyde 220 ' St. Clair Congregational Ghurch Sunday School ' 110 W. Westcott, Ettriek ' .- 110 Euphemie H. Logan 100 Caversham Baptist Junior- Endeavour ■ 10 0 Proceeds of a sale of dolls' clothes conducted by Dora Mirams and Freda Simpson, Upper York place 0 10 6 , Children of Clydeval'e : —J. Cottrell, 'Is; G. Dunlop, Is; E. Dunlop, 6d; W. Dunlop, 3d; N. Dunlop, 3d; M. Dunlop, 3d; M. Copland,, 6d; L. Copland, 3d; G. Mitchell, Is"; A. Mitchell, Is; N. Mitchell, Is ; J. Mitchell, 6d ; J. Hyslop, Is ; , B. Hyslop, Is; A. Hyslop, 6d; " A. Hyslop, 6d; A. Hyslop, 2d;* E. Hyslop, 2d; J. Hyslop, 2d; K. Smith, 2s 6d; C. Hyslop, 6d. Total .- 0 14 0 J. and S. Hunter 0 10 0 W. S. D. T 0 7 6 M. L. Hyde .."• 0 5 0 Hyde 0 5 0 A Friend, Clydevale 0 5 0 W., Winton , 0 4 0 Heibert E. Hyde 0 3 0 A. Covenhy 0 1 0 William J". Hyde 0 2 o! Frank Hyde 0 0 6 George Hyde 0 0 6 "GENERAL TREASURER'S LIST. Dunedin Stock Exchange .. .. .. 50 0 0 Bing, Harris, and Co 50 0 0 Union S.S. 'Company 50 0 0 G. G. Eussell .. .. / ' 15 15 0 The Misses Mollison's Kindergarten School, Mornington (saie -of work) . . 21 12 6 Portobello Eoad Board District, per T. Porterfield ' 17 19 0 Jas Taylor, Waiiuna 17 10 8 South Dunedin Presbyterian Church 26 15. 9 Collection 'Lawrence Presbyterian ' -Church .' 13 12 7 E-vening Star Company (Limited). . 10 10 0 A. Lorie and Co. 10 0 0 ileid and Gray 10 0 0 North" Dunedin Presbyterian Church 9 14 10 Nimmo Blair 5 5 0 Collections Tuapeka West Presbyterian Church 1 i .. .. 716 6 JKaikorai School , pupils 7 14 9 Private subscription: Mayor and Councillors North-East Valley .. 6 6 0 TV. Scoular and Co 5 5 0 J. Eattray and Son .. 5 5 0 Joseph. Sparrow .. 500 J. B". P 'Smith 5 0 0 Collection" Blueapur Presbyterian Church 430 Mr and Mrs King, George street north (second subscription) . . . . 4 0 0 Scoullar and Chisholm's Employees (second subscription) 3 5 6 W. A. Moore 3 3 0 M. T. B 3 3 0 W. Gregg and Co. ' (Limited) .. .. 33 0 Selwyn Boys' Brigade (proceeds concent, per D. Reid) 3 0 0 First in&talment general canvas Tuapeka West 23 6 St. Mary's Church, Mornington (second subscription) 2 12 0 Collection Lawrence Sunday School 2 7 5 St. Martin's^ Church, N,orth-East Valley 240 G-. K. .., 2 2 0 Powley and Kcast •.. 220 Alex. Kyle 3 3 0 Nathaniel Eeed ..'...... 2 20 A. C. Hanlon 2 2 0 G. L. Stewart .. .T 2 2 0 G. and T. Young .. „ 5 .. .. 22 0 A. J. Wynne and Hope 220 ' George C. Proudfoot ...... 220 S. F. Chapman , • .. „ 2 2 0 Andrew Mowat .. .„ 22 0 'Fred Calvert 2 2 0 P. Pattullo 2 2 0 Mrs W. Grey 200 Christians meeting Roslyn (per D. Macgoun) 200 J. E. Pollock (Flag Swamp) .. 2 0 0 Eoslyn Wesieyan Sunday School.. 2 0 0 Employees Nimmo and Blair . . 117 0' Three Friends, Lawrence .. .. 134 0 A. H. S 1 10 0 Mrs Redman (Mosgiel), account Christadelphians, Green Island and Mosgiel , .. .. 110 0 H. L. F 110 Percy Laing ..* .. .. .. ... .. 110 John Stone .„ , 110 H. A. Le Cren .. .. „. 110 "H. Carter 110 Hip Tong Tie 110 J. Paterson, Caversham , 110 Ben Fuller „ .. 110 ,W. J. Waters, Port Chalmers 110 *Greig, Mitchell, and Co .., 110 Cutten and Hart , 110 H. May and Co 110 O'Donnell and M'Mullin 110 Wib, Watson 110 Professor Benham „., .. 110 "Mrs Eichardson, Eoslyn 110 "j. A. Fothergill 110 Mrs J. D. Walker .. 110 Thomas Tait , 110 Simon Bros 110 On Lee 110 -Walter H. Pearson .. .. , „ .. 110 H. J. and J. M. Gourley .... 110 John E. Norison , ..: 110 A. Palmer * 110 George Ritchie :..] 110 Captain Cameron : .-r, .. >1 1 » ■3M. Court .. 3 >i ° ►D. M'Donald and T. Dun .. „; .., 110 'A. J. Lumley .. >„ 110 M. Vivian .■. .. 110 IE. Ellis and Co. f ± „, .... 3 1 0 [Mrs Norison ... .t ... » fl .-. ••) 116 >G. P. Graham .. -* ..■».., 110 . -Maclean' and Co. - .- 2 2 0 {Mrs Hepburn ........... 110 ..Sidney Cook .. „, 1 1 0 JW. Aitken and Son ......... 310 Captain P. Laing .. .. .. .. 110 £E. H. Carow ... .-. .. .. .♦« 110 J. Tunnage .«, .. .. r . .. ..• 10 0 Zohn Aikauva <■• *« »• ** •• *" * °

Stephen Wilson, 10s; Mrs "Wilson, 10s 10 0 L. E. Ellison 100 Helen M'Neil ■ 10 0 A. B. Falconer . . -. 10 0 Otago Lodge Druids (No. 1) 10 0 Collie and Pullen 10 0 J. E. S. £ 10 0 W. Swan 100 First donation Miss Bees's School.. 10 0 R. Stables, Caversharn 10 0 James Annand 100 A. B. Gillies, per Mayor of Mornington 10 0 Member Knox Church 10 0 Tahitika sympathisers 10 0 W. S. D 10 0 Member Knox Church 10 0 Edward Campbell 10 0 H. W. Dtumings „ 10 0 George Kay, Eoslyn 10 0 F. Williams 100 A poor man 0 15 0 Arthur Fleet 0 10 6 Sympathisers 0 12 6 Joseph Evans, St. Kilda 0 10 0 W. H. A. Sargent 0 10 6 E. B. B. 10s, E. W. 2s 6d .... 012 6 Mrs E. Body, ss; L. Body, 2s 6d; F. N. Coxhead 0 10 6 E. S. Mantz, per Mrs Riddle .. .. 010 0 Eobinson Bros. " '. 0 10 6 F. Bakers, Morulngton 0 10 0 John Irwin 0 10 0 M.-X. D. and E. E * > 010 0 D. G. Woods 0 10 6 Mrs Stone 0 10 6 South Bunedin Baptist Y.P.S.C.E. 0 10 0 J C. Small .. .. ' 010 6 Mrs Jane Kirkwood ... 0 10 0 David Larnaoh * 0 10 6 J. J. Body, 2s 6d 0 10 0 Mrs Robinson 0 10 0 John Gollar 0 10 0 Three' little boys, Opoho (floral fete) 0 10 0 T. Fiddie 0 10 0 James M'Naught 0 10 0 Eobert Phimester (South Dunedin) \ 0 10 0 J. Watson, Caversham 0 10 0 W. N. B 0 10 0 J. B 0 10 0 W. B. G. Heßth 0 10 0 Thos. Hinchliffe 0 10 0 John Glover 0 10 0 F. T 0 10 0 H. F 0 7 6 Mrs Dempster ~ 0 6 0 J. H. L 0 5 0 T. Hampton 0 5 0 F. M. Eliot El-ott ; .. 0 5 0 E. A. Foster 0 5 0 Alex. Thomson. Woodhaugh 0 5 0 W. D. Orchard 0 5 0 F. W. de C " 0 5 0 Mrs W.G. M 0 5 0 John Riddle 0 5 0 Mrs J. Riddle 0 5 0 Misses Statharn and Eigg 0 5 0 T. Bailey 0 5 0 Fras. Brennaa 0 5 0 Thomas Fitzgerald .• .. 0 5 0 E. W.. Glenkenich 0 5 0 J. L. Harraway 0 5 0 Marion Dickie 05 0 Mrs Jenkins 0 5 0 John Norton ..-> „• 0 5 0 Wrn. Jenkins 0 5 0 William Ross 0 5 0 G. Wild 0 5 0 B: 5. F. .. , 0 5 0 Old-age Pensioner .. ...... 050 Constance E. Jones ........ 0 5 0 P. Pettit (family) ..- 0 4 0 No Name 0 2 6 A Friend .. „. .. 0 2 6 Harold Riddle ............ 026 A Friend 0 3 0 A little girl , 0 10 J. A „ 0 10 Kathleen Dicker 010 AUCKLAND, April 30. A crowded 1 meeting, convened by the Auckland Church Council, was held ia T,he Opera House on Sunday nieht in aid of the Indian famine fund The collection realised .£35. Collections on. behalf of the fund wore also made in. several churches WANGANUI, April 30. The response A o the Indian famine fund, which was'sUrted at the beginning cf the week, is genero-is, and already some £220 has been subscribed. The Mayor (Mr Hatrick) to-day ! cabled .-6200 to the Governor-general. Amounts are still comin i in freely. LECTURE "BY MR A. W. BAKER. At the Agricultural Hall on Friday, Mr A. W. Boker, 'missionary, who resided in South Africa for some vcars, gave a lecture on " The Doers and the Causes of ths Present War." There was a moderate attendance. Tho cold night no doubt kepb many people away from the meeting. The chair was occupied by the Mayor of Du-iedin (Mr R. ChisholmK and seats on the platform were also occupied by the Rev. J. Guy, Mr D. Wright, and Mr J. Wilkinson.

Proceedings were commenced with the singing of two verses of " Onward, Christian soldiers," Miss Logic playing; the piano, after which Mr D. Wright engaged in prayer. The Chairman, in introducing tlie lecturer, mentioned that owing to the generosity of tho citizens the ?iur of £1000 had been cabled to the authorities for the relief of the people who were now suffering in India. He hoped that another sum, still larcer than that, would be sent before Ion?. "When it was remembered that one shilling was enough to keep a family of four for a week in India, it would be seen that the people of Dunedin had provided sufficient to maintain 20,000 of tho famine sufferers for' one week.

Mr Baker, who was received with applause, spoke for about two hours on his subject, and throughout he was listened to with close attention. He prefaced his lecture by saying that he regarded prayer as the most powerful weapon for the settlement of the war, and, believing thai, he wished to put before the Christian public some facts that would strengthen them to pray for the success of the British arms and the overthrow of the independence of the Transvaal Republic. He spoke from no political bias or from any other motive, except the one he had stated. Born in Natal, and having lived for the lost twelve years in the Transvaal, eight and a-balf of which he spent in Pretoria, he could not but know something- about the Boer people. Ti.e firdl point the lecturer referred to was the bringing up of the Boei-o, in connection with ■which he adduced strong evidence to show the effect their training had upon them in after life. Thov were reared, he said, in a kind of hyper-Co lvinism, the tendency of which was to harden them and to make them dogmatic vnd unforgiving. He ilso touched at length on the practice of slavery, as cruelly, carried on by the Boera, and stpted the reasons they held — and which, they contended, they had Bible authority for holding — for persisting in the practice. On that matter the view the lecturer took was this : That the great cruelties practised by the Boers in that direction had caused the doom of the Transvaal to be sounded, and its fall was about ■to be accomplished by a Higher Power than the British army. The history of the Transvaal was recounted at length, leading up to the time when, getting into financial 'difficulties, England camo to its relief. This was subsequent to a period when the Zulus had threat-

ened to attack the Boers — an attack that, had it been made, would have crushed the Boer nation. But England ' stepped in and ' said the Zulus were not to attack, and although, later on, Englan.d had lost many valuable lives and spent millions of money in a war against the Zulus, the DutcK"ih the Transvaal had never said " Thank you " for what had been done for them.

An interval was made at this stage, and a collection was taken up in aid of the famine fund. The sum of £17 Os lOd was contributed.

In the second part of the lecture Mr Beaker asserted that slavery is, and had been, rampant in the Transvaal, and that corruption was through and through the Government, and concluded with a few remarks as to the present position of the war and the stand taken up by Great Britain. He contended that Great Britain coxild not have taken up any other position than the one she had assumed. It was because he believed that the British flag was the best flag for every nation under Heaven that he sincerely hoped, in the presence of God, that for the sake of the black people and for the sako of the Germans, the French, the Italians, and everybody else, 'the British jSag would wave over the two Republics, and would never be taken down until the coining of the Lord. - The lecturer was accorded a very cordial vote of thanks for his interesting remarks. - -The singing of the National Anthem and a vote of thanks to the chairman for presiding closed the meeting.

NEXT SATURDAY'S COLLECTION,

The ladies are working very assiduously to make the effort of next Saturday an unprecedented success. .Over 200 volunteers have come forward to put in one day's special work for the benefit of the destitute and starving population of India. When we read of the Kaiser of Germany opening up subscription lists in Berlin and raising funds for this object, we cannot doubt for a. moment that the sons and daughters of the Empire throughout Dimedin and suburbs will readily Vespond to the call of charity on behalf of their fellow subjects, put before them personally by the ladies of the * community. Thursday next, at the Town Hall, a meeting ot all the ladies taking part -will be held, when the final instructions will be given to them. "We wish the ladies every success in their commendable undertaking.

Mr William Pryor, manager of the Otago Fruit and Produce Agency, has notified the Indian Famine Relief Fund Committee that he will be pleased to dispose of, free of cost, fruit and produce sent from the country to be sold for the relief fund.

A Wellington telegram states that £200 collected locally for the Indian famine relief fund has been cabled to the Viceroy of India.

In connection with the contribution of £3 0s 4d, proceeds of the North-Easfc Valley children's bazaar, asknowledged Mr C. J. Wilsotf /Writes : " I wish to texider my hearty thanks to the general public for the support and patronage gii?en their little bazaar -in Calder's Hall, ' North-East Valley. Our thanks are also due to the Dresden - Piano Company for the free use of a good instrument, to lilr George Calder for allowing us the hall, and last, but not the least, to the papers for their great assistance given and concessions made. I do so in the name and on behalf of the following young ladies: Miss Clara Wilson, the Watson (4), Phyllis Roberts, K. and T. Ferguson, and B. Watt." A meeting of th" Ladies' Committee of the Indian Famine Relief Fund was held on the 25th. Arrangements were completed for the general collection day — Saturday next. A gratifying number of offers were received from ladies willing to assist, showing that for an occasion of the kind the Dunedin ladies are not behind their sisters in othei colonies and England in their desire to help in so deserving a cause, even at great personal inconvenience. Positions for the collection were allotted, and will be duly announced by circular. 1 It is a coincidence that the day fixed is the date of the animal hospital Saturday in Sydney, where upwards of 2000 ladiea collect in the streets from daylight to dark, and it will be a point of effort with the local committee that their collection shall equal, in proportion, to that made in Sydney, It is gratifying to see the liberal support already contributed voluntarily to the famine fund, showing that while there is still all the excitement and expense of war before the nation its people are willing to assist in cementing the bonds of the Empire by deeds of charity where required. The large number of ladies who have come forward to assist the local movement are to be heartily congratulated, and there is no doubt that the people of Dunedin will generously second their efforts to relieve the terrible 'distress prevailing in India.

A conce.t in aid of the Indian famine fund was held in connection with the Hanover street Baptist Band of Hope on Friday evening, 20th, when the schoolroom was crowded to the doors, many being unable to obtain admission. Over £8 was realised for the fund. Solos and recitations were rendered by the Misses Sligo, Eead, and May Knowles, and Messrs Telfer and Metson. An instrumental solo was given by Yip Eum, and the Band of Hope choir, conducted by Miss Harland, gave an action song. The tableaux by the Albany street School pu'ipls, under Miss M'lntyre, were a great attraction. A representation of Britannia and her sons, in which three of the Industrial School boys in khaki represented New Zealand, being heartily applauded. At the conclusion of the conceit, a vote of thanks was passed to Messrs Scoullor and Chisholni for use of furniture, and to Messrs Cherrie and M'lndoe for printing tickets free of charge. Miss M. Buchsnan presided at the organ, and Mr H. H. Driver occupied the chair. Mr Denniston, treasurer for the Indian famine fund, informs us he cabled £700 on the 26th to the Viceroy of India, which, with the £300 previously sent, makes £1000 sent to date. Both sums have been generously trasmitted by the Bank of New Zealand at par. The/ Otago Hurbour Board have agreed to forge /'all- export dues leviable on goods forwarded fiom Dunedin for the relief of the famine-stricken people in India. A cheque will be forwarded to the general treasurer from the Dundas street Primitive Methodist Church for »?3, of which £5 5s represents the amount of a collection, and £2 15s the proceeds of Mr G. M. Thomson's lecture. For the convenience of Roslyn residents wishing to contribute 1o the Indian Famine Belief fund, a subscription list has been deposited at the Roslyn Council Chambers. At the Presbyterian Church, Lawrence, on Sunday last a collection was made on behalf of the Indian famine relief fund, reaching;- the sum of J313 12s 6d. In the Sunday school the sum of £2 16s 5d was subscribed, and at the service at Blue Spur £4- 3s, making the very substantial total of £20 ]2s.

A collection at the Clinton Presbyterian Church on Sunday resulted in about £17 being collected l for the famine relief fund.

A subscription taken up at the close of Sunday's services in the Cargill road Wcsleyan Church in aid of the Indian famine fund resulted in the buiu of £21 10s bein£ subscribed,

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