To the Editor of the Nortu-Catva Dany News, Dean S1r,—I received yesterday 2 letter from the Vicar Apostolic of Honan, bearing on the state of things in that province. The purport of it is to the same effect as that contained in the article you published writer gratefully alludes tothe relief afford.
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ed his Mission in 1878, when the famine prevailed in Shansi and Honan, and urgently alks assistance to enable him to relieve the sufferings of many in his neighbourhood, from the calamities of the Yellow River inundation. He writes familiarly of a large extent of country, and knows the condition of the people there, as deplorable in the extreme. Alike the Christians and others have come to his mission for relief, but he has very little to administer, yet" hearing of the fund raised in Shanghai for the purpose, he ventures to hope that some help will be forwarded to him, special sphere of the Mission is at Nan-yang in the S, W. of Honan, where it has been established for 200 years, and well known to the people of, large. As numbers have been driven from the immediate scene of inundation; they have in many instances flocked around the Mission, where their wants are not attended to by government officials as is the ease in other parts, There can be no doubt as to
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