26 MAY 1900, Page 16

AN APPEAL FOR THE INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TRH “sracrsroa.-1 Si,—Is it too late to appeal for a more liberal subscription to the Indian Famine Fund ? Money is urgently wanted to enable the ryots to make a fresh start directly the rain begins to fall. This will be in less than another month. The people, on the first rainfall, will begin to melt away from the relief camps, but thousands of them will be without money wherewith to buy bullocks to replace those which have died, grain where- with to sow their fields, or cash wherewith to redeem their few remaining goods from the village usurer. A million sterling would be none too much for this most necessary expenditure.