With reference to the circular published below from the Netherlands Minister to China, we are asked to state that the Acting Consul for the Netherlands at Hongkong "a Buschmann) will be happy to receive any subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers by the recent disaster in the Sunda Straits. Lhe following is the circular which has been addressed by the Netherlands Minister to the Netherlands Consular Officers in China.
"Sir,—'The telegraph hes communi cated Lo ws the disastrous calamity wh uns befallen the Bantam district and a rent part of the Wear-overt of Java, ght the re Sunda Seraits, The particular here scenes which xccompa his from renewing to you this for L need nut dwell on pathy with the distressed populations of those dreadfully visited places subjected to all full confidence of rheic sympathy, 1 bes to appeal to the Netherlands Goi aulae Officers in China, to collect among our countrymen and auoug all members of friendly nationalities, in the manner in expedient espectise result, any cou which each Consular Officer mizht deem tribution wi benevoler s might wish to grant to Bantam, and to forward same to His Nethorland Majesty's al at Hongkong, with a list containing the names of contributors and t mut emtribured by each, besides the general ce lections where such might have taken place.
"The fands thus gathered at the Netherland Consulate in Hongkong shall be duly forwarded to His Exesllency the Governor-General of Netherlands India at Batavia, for the Buntam relief-fund."—China Mail.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.