The Koman Catholic Chaplain at Chatham refused to recite the burial service over the body of a sergeant of the 82ad regiment—a Catholic on account of his connection with the Free : The service was ultimately performed by the Protestant Chaplain. Calcutta dispatches of March sth report that the distress among the famine stricken people of eastern Tishost increases. In one village alone, there have been eighteen deaths from starvation in four days. The number of applicants has increased from fifteen to thirty thousand within a, week. The East Indian Government has given employment to people in the district threatened with famine, and in this 3?s of BllWeW<lß ' c ’ 1 iu MP»«h>g 120,000
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Evening Star, Issue 3483, 22 April 1874, Page 2
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112Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3483, 22 April 1874, Page 2
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