The Famme in India.
(Per Press Association.) Calcutta, Jan. 17. Maharajah Dharban?ha, one of the native princes of Deccan, hss remitted taxation to tho extent of eight lahks of rupees, and has subscribed a similar amount to the relief fund. The number of deaths at Bombay has reached 170 per day, and is rapidly increasing. The plague has attacked rodents, swine, and poultry, which are dying in large numbers. London, Jan. 17. At a large meeting in the Mansion House in connection with the Indian Relief fund the Lord Mayor of London presided. The Duke of Cambridge, Lord Geo. Hamilton, and the Marquis of Lansdowne appealed for English sympathy towards their fellow subjects in their great trial. A resolution was passed inviting subscriptions to a national fund. Some disorder was accasioned by the submission of an amendment by H.S. Hyndman, the socialist. The Lord Mayor refused to accept the amendment and Hyndman was ultimately expelled.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 168, 18 January 1897, Page 2
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