This is approximately £800,000 or nearly 4,000,000 gold dollars—a large sum to spend in ameliorative measures. The acuteness of the distress has passed, but with the uncertainty of the autumn crops and the approach of winter the conditions of distress will not fully end till the gathering of the wheat harvest in the early spring. If it be merciful and humane to relieve, it were much more so to prevent famine. Not until scientific and preventative measures be adopted can these recurring calamities be either averted or gested some years, have ogum boon revived. overcome. The irrigation schemes, sug-
f carried out they would give effective and permanent, instead of a merely temporary Teliof. The Governor promises to carry out the plans, but he has so many axes to grind that he may not be able to give the time or attention such a public and philantrophic scheme demands.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.