THE INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5353, 24 May 1878, Page 5

THE INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

The following despatch; from her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies iS published for general information in a Gazette of yesterdays date v— ' ‘‘ Downing-streefc, 14 th Fob., 1878, liortl i—l have not failed to notice with the greatest satisfaction the accounts which have reached me; chiefly from unofficial sources, of the mumfaeence which has been displayed in so many of hot'.Majesty's colonial possessions, in the contibutions which have been made towards the funds for the relief of ■ the sufferers by famine in India. “ The liberality which has been shown in the colonies has, I believe, far exceeded even that evinced on previous occasions, when calls of humanity have made themselves heard throughout the most distant portions of the British , Empire, and has been peculiarly gratifying as an act springing from the spontaneous generosity of all classes of her Majesty's subjects • and I shall be obliged if you will bo so good as to inform mo what have been the actual amounts contributed by the colony under your government, and to supply mo at the same time with any information on the subject • which you may consider to be of interest.—l have, &c., “M. E. Hioks-Bbaoh, j • "Governor the Moat Hon. 1 the' '"'- ,■ ; • "Marquisof Kormaby,G.C.M.G., to’ 1 -