Jan, 22, ly few casualties.
The Government housed and fed numerous refugees from the afflicted areas and a public relief fund has been liberally subscribed to. It is being used for the construction of temporary dwellings, the unemployed being used for this purpose.
The death is announced of Government Assisting Destitute General Sir Charles Warren, Refugees Sir Charles nearly 87 years] Jan. 24. fof age, having been born February 1840. He was the son The Government is continuing to of Major General Sir Charles War-assist the refugees who have lost ren, He was educated at Cheltentheir all in the disastrous recent ham, Sandhurst and Woolwich, floods in Malaya, and public relief entering the Royal Engineers funds are mounting daily.
1857. He conducted excavations It is not yet possible to ascertain Jerusalem and a reconnaissance of the total death-roll or damage, but Palestine between 1867 and 1870 it in officially estimated that there fand was High Commissioner were over 30 fatalities in the State laying down the boundary line lof Kelantan, Griqualand West and the Orange Three thousand head of cattle Free State between 1876 and 1877, perished and the damage to rice for which he was made a..c. crops amounted to $400,000. The} He commanded the Diamond loss to traders in one town amounted Fields-Horse in the Kafir War and to $300,000. at the rebellion in Griqualand West} in 1878 and commanded troo}
The death-rol in Perak is esti mated gt 24.—Reuter. nst the Bechuanas in the same the Egyptian campaign of
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