Show A beneficent FAMINE improvements to result from the distress in andl the famine in north india which is assuming more and more serious pro portions while it will occasion much suffering is likely also to result in good g for a long time the government has been projecting a ceries of railways tail ways in the northwest provinces budh and alie punjab but has been held back by the laek of funds the need was not so pressing as to justify the expense now however that something must be done to furnish relief to the starving the viceroy announces hat instead of charity the government will give employment and push these borks the result will be not merely a wiser and more effective relief for the immediate want but a provision against such disasters in the future says the ew york independent the most prominent cause of famine in asia is the absence of means of communication muni cation making it impossible to the deficiency of one region from the surplus in another much good h aa been done by roaby built and these new ones will be a public aboon even overbalancing over balancing the present distress |