Very painful nows has arrived from Jerusalem* A grievous famine prevails there, and a measure of corn, which at. twenty piastres would usually have been considered beyond the roach of all but the rich, is now sold at 42 piastres. Jerusalem depends for its supply of bread upon the crops raised on the plains of Sharon m. 1 in the valley of the Jordan. I>ut. this year the Jordan overllo'.vod, and all the plains on the western 6U?d were converted in swamps. The consequence has been an actual famine in Jerusalem, and the leading Jews of the holy city have sent a most pathetic appeal for aid to their co-roligioniat th© venerable Sir Moses MoutcGoro, in London.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 207, 29 August 1874, Page 3
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