THE DROUGHT.
MELBA’S GENEROSITY. g o By Telograph Tress Association Copyright E Melbourne Nov. 4. ®! Madarno Melba has cabled to a few in- j fluoutial and wealthy friends in England and New York for subscriptions to assist those stricken by drought. Melba headed ” tho list with T2OO. Sho proposes to in- .' vito an influential committeo to supervise tho disbursement of the fund. A special mooting of tho Chamber of Commerco rcsentod her action as calculated to cause tho people of England and America to think tho wholo of Australia affected, and requested Sir Edmund Barton to place tho position clonrly before tho public at Homo, bn E, Barton cabled to the English press: '• Australians applaud tho generous mo- n tivoc prompting Melba’s appeal. Although T in tho afflicted districts the broak up of U tho drought seems almost assured, never- hi tholess thoso who depond on the pastoral o< industry will continue to suffor eonsidor- C ably for a timo. It must not, howover, a bo supposed that tho Commonwealth ns a P wholo is affected rnoro than temporarily, f Its crodit and resolution are alike uu- 11 touohed.” J 1
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 563, 5 November 1902, Page 3
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