DISTRESS IN CONSTANTINOPLE

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 35, 5 April 1878, Page 2

DISTRESS IN CONSTANTINOPLE

Our (Timoß). correspondent, undor drtto Pora, JiiDunry 23rd, tologrnphs tho following Appoah— " The diHtreaa in Conßtnntinnple is utterly nppnlling. About 80,000 fujji* tivi.'H from diiVorotit Provinces, of all creeds and races. in tho Empire, bavo arrived within tho luab ten dnys, nnd. eontinuo to arrive by thousands i\ day, Many, have neither food nor shelter and are scantily eluil, although tho winter is uiuwuully severe. Tho proven!; ineaas,. oliiciul and voluntary, are

ul,lorlviinn'l.i.|iiAto '.. «-.>.io with t,lii-< wi.lo ajSfcii.l fliHti-UjUi. k \r.i-t|:ii'M,a«:hools, l)arr;u:k.<,* sf-Auri ' .•;ii';iv;iiirfOlMir< are. i-.rowilwl. The. rt.ilian lm«- K' V(!n "I 1 Hovcril I'aliwcn, and m.mv worthy 'inh:ibit;iutaof tlm town Imvo filial thoir housos wiM> fiii>itivos; but, Iho mentis of Riibsistonco nro nltogolhop influflT.MiMit;. "A (Mounts from F?ourff.is», Aid"f, RodiHto ami Toholoii nro m.iHt herirtronilin^. Ar, tho lnl.t;or place, :i «tn«.i'>n on the lino of ruilwny. whero a')ou»; SOOf) pofuj?ocß, |)ri«wi|Mlly womon nml cliildroii, h:\vo <!oll<vU' 1, an cyowiLni^-jj U.ntC9 that during tho la.- ! tow W.iy^ iibont 200. liiivd (mrislii'd of oolil ami ■ hunger. During iho JiMiifil, many A'Oincn nml children din} in Iho I rums and woro oust out into tin? snow. Thoao \vho arrive horo aro Hcinuily boiler oil. fnHtnnco.s hiwo oceurroil of \vom«7\ i;iyin^; birth to diiMrcn intbo slrfiot.s, iind mothnrand infant boiny found frozen in tho morii'ii^. •'lniinodiato relief ia most tir^onlJy roqnirod ii> confront tliw increasing marts of misery, all exisl.in;' source:! of charily bein 1 .! nearly exhausliid. A. com - mit<co was I'ormod last, ni^hf by the ipditi'T members of gvery.f'^ i\'n coin-, muiiity represented in (lonsianlinoplo, including tho Consuls, tho principal bankers, loading merohinlH, and Corroapondentti of London newspapor.-* anil many (/ontinenial j>urn;ih'."