Show INDIA FAMINE FUND report of the subscriptions raised and the disbursement thereof oct at the final meeting today ot the committee on india famine annd the hon lord mayor Bir Johi phillipa announced the total subscriptions amounted to every pound collected ald had been remitted to india that the expense of administering the fund bad minute there are still a million id a halt of persons receiving relief however the necessity oi relieving sufferers from the famine ie rapidly decreasing decre asins and the relief work in most of the provinces of india will bo closed in a ew weeks the subscriptions from great Bri the united state and the british coo aigin india the lord mayor continue amounted to nearly and the 1 total cost of the famine we over 10 pounds too lord mayor in replying to the address of thanks of the secretary of itale for india referred erate folly to the efforts of mr hauser of chicago as having been the initiator of the plan for bending larga quantities of clothing tn the euffer erB in india from famine and plague adding that the clothing collected was distributed with remarkable |