INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1038, 23 October 1877, Page 3

INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

In addition to the collections on behalf of the above fund given yesterday, the following additional amounts were collected on Sunday last: —Free Methodist Church, including Sunday school and private collections, £2U 13s 9d; Papanui Church (Anglican), £26 8s sd; German Church, Christchurch, £5 Is; St. Mary’s, Addington (Anglican), £Ol Is 2d; St. Stephen’s, Lincoln (Anglican), £5 Is Kid; Christ’s College Chapel, Christchurch, £2O ; Disciples of Christ, Oddfellows’ Hall, Christchurch, £ls 5s 4d; Sunnyside Asylum, £1 7s lid ; Primitive Methodists, Christchurch (including previous collections), £5 ; St. Mary’s, Springston (Anglican), £3 18s Id ; Green Park Church, £3 15s Od. In Lyttelton collections were made at the Church of England, Wesleyan, and Presbyterian Churches, £2O being collected at the Church of England, £22 at the Wesleyan, and between £2l and £22 at the Presbyterian. There was no collection made at tiic Catholic Church, sufficient notice not having been given, but one will '.ike place shortly. At Kaiapoi the amount collected in the Wesleyan Church on Sunday at morning and evening service was £2O. Hie amount received in the offertory at morning service at the Episcopalian Church was £5 J3s 9d. At Opawa tlie collections in Bt. Mark’s Church amounted to £lB 10s. At Oxford a public meeting called by the chairman of the Hoad Hoard was only attended by six persons. Mr Gorton, chairman, read a letter from the Mayor ot Christchurch, asking lor the co-operation of the Board, and a loiter from the Rev. F. Opie, apologising for his absence, lie being in atti ndance at the Synod in Christchurch. After a few retpifcs from the chairman, expressing

his disappointment at the apathy of the people of Oxford in this matter, and the terrible nature of the famine, he suggested that the meeting should lapse. After some conversation, the meeting terminated without anything being done.

In the Ellesmere parochial district the offerings at the various Church of England services were specially set apart on Sunday for this fund, and, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, as far as the returns are to hand, the response was most liberal. At St James’s Church, Southbridge, the collections amounted to £3fi, and at the Leeston morning service some £l3 odd was subscribed, ft is also prrposcd by the Ellesmere Road Board to apply to the committee of the Ellesmere Agricultural and Pastoral Associ ition for their assistance in providing a table to be presided over by members of both bodies, where those who may not have otherwise had an opportunity of contributing may do so.