AUSTRALIA AND THE INDIAN FAMINE.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 26, 28 January 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIA AND THE INDIAN FAMINE.

The Australian contribution to tho In* dian Pnmino Relief Fund is tho subjoot of somo laudatory remarks by tho Daily News. After referring to tho other sources from which the fund has boon derived the Doily News obsorvos :—" Lastly there v to lift'fnicen into neoount tho extraordinary munifldanee of tho Australian Colonies. Ai tho end of last week nearly £80.000 lnd been subscribed in Australia, and it is thoucht thnt tho announcement of this lnrijo benorolenre enabled tho Madras Committeo to cry ' Enough.' Tho ploasnntosfc thinat nbnufc tho famine and its fund— a tfiini? which it is mor<i than loaltimnto to take prido as well as pleasure— is the evidonoe afforded of the willinßnos* oftho Colonies to holp their sister donondeney. Only n few days af»o Lord Carnnrmn lnul to hand over tho o;oodly sum of £2000 ns a contribution from British Guinnn. Gninnn is by no an oxUbernnilv rich colony, and it lias had to suflor from somo hard things which havo been said of it in roforcneo to its labourers — follow countrymen of tho nfllictcd Madrnssces — whom it imports, «o that tho subhcription was a pleasant rovengo npon its decriera and an honost acknowlodpmnnt of indebtedness as well as an dot of liberality. Still moro romark"< nblo is tho Australian subscription > to which wo lmvo nlrondy alluded, Assumintj that this subscription oumo from tho whole of Australia, and romftmborinß that tho population of Groat Britain, wo have boon fairly bnnten by our own ohildicn in tho matter of charity. In no bettor way could tho different Colonies, show that thoir solidarity is not a moro raattor of nftov dinner talk."