28 OCTOBER 1899, Page 3

The Mansion House Transvaal Refugees Fund had reached the sum

of 2145,000 on Thursday evening, while the Fund opened by the Lord Mayor for the benefit of the widows and orphans of officers and men killed or disabled in the war already amounts to upwards of 230,000. We note with gratitude and pleasure the appeal issued by several American ladies resident in London to their compatriots on both sides of the Atlantic, to raise within a fortnight's time a sum of 230,000 for the immediate equipment and despatch of a hospital ship for-the relief of the sick and wounded soldiers and refugees in South Africa.