Show famine in india llooddoo oct 26 wheat market and prospects of famine in india still attract much attention although some of the most influential news-papers do not share the feeling of alarimn which prevails in some quar-ters the bdombay gazette of sept said the prospects are as bad as possible both for grain and cotton A leading exporter has informed hbis5 clients in england that the crop of cotton will not exceed fifty or sixty per cent on the average in southern india the outlook is more hopeful the supply of fodder is ample and if the borit comes there is no fear of the recurrence of the hor bors of 1876 owing to the improved railway communication dnative astrologers basdiinngg their theories on traditional observations of the heavens statse that if it rains with-in five days famine will be averted but that later rains will not avail the englishman of calcutta septt jattbh pointed nut that scarcity is not the same as famine said while a number of deaths bhave occurred in it can bse stated that famine is not actually prevailing as the stocks are not yet exhausted the difficulty being to compel dealers to sell but the pathetic convey of starv-ing children which the bishop of nag pbuurrbhaass brought from pur proves that the resources in that dis-trict are perilously near exhaustion for a month past wheat and flour have bbeeenn selling in the bazars and bowrah of calcutta at three aannnnaas per ser and rice at rates not dreamed |