SOUTH AFRICAN WAR FUND: At the close of last night £781,600 had been received at the Mansion House in aid of the South African War Fund. The donations yesterday included: British Residents at Lima, £1,132 10s; Valparaiso, per the British Consul-General, £700: Proceeds of Bazaar, per Miss Chaplin, £40; Ash-next-Sandwich Parish Church, £9 5s Id; collected by Miss Alice Foley at Madrid, £56 4s; the Bilbao River and Cantabrian Railway Company, £105; Sleaford (2nd instalment), £100; the Misses Pogson, £11; Mrs. Pinsent, £50; Mr. Bernard Hunt, £10 10s; Wilnecote Parish, £11 14s; Maidenhead (additional), per the Mayor, £100; Trinity House Channel Pilots, Gravesend, sixth contribution, £ 10; Dr. Jaeger’s Company and Staff (20th weekly collection), £913s 11d; Petersfield (second instalment), £20 0s 3d; San Jose and Costa Rica, per the British Consul, £356 11d; Christ Church, West green, £10 18; and Slough and Bucks, per Executive Committee, £307 12s 4d.
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