The Famine In India
The existing lamine in the Madras and Bombay Presidenoies in India will oost at lenst $32,000,000. Already ii Bombay au urea oí 54,000 square miles is affected, and in Madras the total iiivn affected is 84,800 square miles. In the fcwo Pivsideneies 27,000,000 of human beings are suffering. The Tndinn (mernmeiit, while anxioustó do all in it power, considera it absolutely neoessary, in order to avoid nntionid bankmptey, to exercise the severest economy. The peoplo are to be employed on relief workg, but are to be paia only enough to give them n bare sabsistenoe. Private (rade in grain will not be interfefsd witli, and the Madras Governmeni bas been oensured for pnrohasing 80,000 tons of grain at the beginning of the Bcartáty. Sil Richard Temple suvs the Bombai ofticials have the famine well in hand, butthat matters are lesa satásTactory in Madras, where he found a E&sposition to expend excessive sums, and to admit to ,tlie relief works without exatins the propor testa.
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