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Show The ludiau Fauiiuc. London, 30. An official telegrsm Iroui tbe viceroy of India summarizes the progress of the famine Irom August Aug-ust 0th lo tbe 2Sib. It saya in Madras the situation has not improved im-proved anywhere, and is distinctly worse in Maduro, Comihatoor, Neliore aud dalem, where 919.771 are on tbe reliet works aud 1.326,971 receiviug gratuitous reliet. In Mysore the crop proopecta are worse aud showers lew Irequeut; 213,263 are on the works or receiving gratuitous relief. More favor a bio accounts continue of the condition ot croptt in Bombay presidency, presi-dency, owing to the recent rains In the northwest provinces the autumn crop in the divbums of Agra and Jtiansi ure nearly lost, End in tbe Alahabod Beuares divisions it i crt.ical. There has been a gnod rain in Meerut and Rohileuud. The crop.-iu crop.-iu Oueb are sufiVing from hot winds Too condition of Puujaub is critic.! aud that of Gwaiior, Kaithutina and Hyderabad, bad. There ia rnjeh distress iu tlie south of Nizams" .dominions. The Deccan is improved. Tne prospects arts good in South Bengal, Burmah and in tbe central I provinces of Berar, Indore and Rut-lam. |