London, 14th January, Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, has sent to the Lord Mayor of London a powerful. state ment, showing the immense extent of the famine in India, and. estimating that the cost to the Indian rensury will amount to from four to six millions sterling.
Private telegrams received here from Bombay on saturday report the shutting-down, of five more mills. It may be added that the population of Bombay is reported in the Statesman's Year Book for 1896 to be 821,764, according to the census of 1891,
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