Show FAMINE IN INDIA A FAR MORR distressing THAN TWO YEARS AGO boston mass dec 30 the american board of commissioners for foreign missions has received from rev R A hume D D at india a coessa atel dec 2 in which he says that the present in western india Is sure to be far more distressing than even tho awful famine of two years ago as a severe dinuth has already began in the ah med district and no rain can be collected until the middle of june the says Ahmod lias suffered also from the plague and Is nu yet fieo from it Shola pur is now in a se ere epidemic and bombay is perhaps in the beginning of another plague experience in view of it all sas the correspondent the govern mant as always is acting most nobly but official relief never can meet the multitude of necessities |