STILL MORE SHOCKS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 5

STILL MORE SHOCKS.

TENERIFFE ALARMED. CONTINUED SEARCH IN THE RUINB. EXMOUTH'S NARROW ESCAPE, (nif TEDEaaAi'ii—peess association —coi'tiuairr.) Rome, January 5. An entire family was released at Mossma yesterday, almost uninjured, though many of tho ruins are being flooded with carbolio acid to overcome tho stench. After a sharp shock of earthquake at Messina yesterday tho British battleship Exmouth got caught in a current arid snapped her anchor chains. . The vessel drifted two miles before control was recovered. . . London, January 6. King Edward has telegraphed expressing high appreciation and approbation of . tho energy and gallantry displayed by the officers and men of the British Mediterranean fleet in dealing with the disaster. REBUILDINC ( OF MEBSINA. STATE LOANS AND EXEMPTION FROM TAXES. Rome, January 6. King Victor Emmanuel and the Government have determined that Messina shall bo rebuilt, the Government lending tho money on very favourable terms. : > The Government expects to raiso 180 million lire' (£7,200,000) for the purpose by increasing the tax on land and 'incomes. Messina will be -exempted from payment of property tax for a quarter of a century. POPE AND CIVIC AUTHORITIES. VATICAN BENEVOLENCE. Rome, January 5. At the instance of Signor Nathan, the Jewish Mayor of Romo, tho Vatican gladly received a batch of suffering survivors in the hospital outsido the Pope's territory. His Holiness passed over the arohway to the hospital, and comforted the sufferers. Signor Nathan visited the hospital later, and exchanged with Cardinal Merry' del Val', the Pontifical Secretary of State, cordial greetings. : SAD NEWS FOR IMMIGRANTS. Now York, January 5. ' There were frantic soenes' at New York among two hundred- Calabrian. and Sicilian immigrants: before landing, ■on learning for . the first time of the disaster. . Sydney, January 5. ' The State Government is cabling £5000 to the Italian earthquake relief fund. ; The Lord, Mayor (Alderman Allen Taylor) presided at a meeting held in the Town flail to inaugurate a public fund. The sum cf £875 was subscribed. ' BRITISH BATTLESHIP'S AID. • FIELD HOSPITALS. ■. RECURRING SHOCKS AT REGGIO. ' (Rec. January 6, 9.55 p.m.) Rome, January 6.

Four days elapsed before the British battleship Exmouth was, able' to go to' Gallico, a. Calabrian town of 5000 inhabitants five miles north of Roggio, to establish a hospital of; 250 hed_s, .with nursqs. This, ,when it arrived, was,' a .-veritable godsend to !th'6 inhabitants, ..because it' was the only ;placo.of relieV in. the, vicinity Tli6 wounded from Catena—who'ro, out of 3500 people/ :2000 wero, killed—were conveyed to. Gallico on stretchers, a distance of several miles.'! Shocks are. occurring , around Reggio at intervals pf twenty minutes. ..••••'. ' : H.M.S. Duncan has now established a field hospital at Catona. Otiier British ships landed ,70 men and four doctors at Scylla, and 50 men and threo doctors at Cannatello. The latter is the most sanitary camp of any. ■" ■. ■ : ;■ ,

TENERIFFE SHAKEN. FATE OF A CHAPLAIN'S FAMILY. : (Ree. January 6, 11.16 p.m.) London, January 6. An alarming shock of earthquake has'been felt at Teneriffe, -the largest of the Canary Islands. : . " Rome, January 6. ' Men of H.M.S. Minerva, amid reourring shocks and heavy groans, worked heroically amid the ruins of 'the British ohaplain Huleatt's houso at Messina. They; discovered Mr. Huleatt and a child in bed, both crushed to death. . ' r . ■ Tho search continues, as Mrs. Huleatt and three other children' are under the ruins.' AID FOR THE SUFFERERS. (Reo. January 7, 0.50 a.m.) Melbourne, January 6.. ; Mr. Fisher, Fedoral Prime Minister, lia's reconsidered the position ho had taken tip regarding. contributing to the Italian earthquake relief effort. Cabinet will meet tomorrow, and it is, believed that £10,000 will bo voted. ■ 1 Mr. Wade, the. Premier of New South 'Wales, who is at present ill Melbourne, intimated that in view of tho Commonwealth's first deoifi'ion he intended to send £5000 frpm New South Wales. London, January. 8. The Mansion House fund has reached £50,000. ''■ ■ LOCAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Mowing additional subscriptions hive been received by ' Mr. Roland Robertson, Consular agent tor Italy :—Dr. Borghetti £1, Captain DoderoilOs., Mr. A. Gras 6s., 1 Mr. Joseph Joseph £25, Mr. F. Barraud,. £1 Is., Miss Rose Joseph £20 v - The following subscriptions' have boon received at the Dominion office:—N, J,B. 2s, 6d., R.D.8.-;lsi, J.F.B. ls.j'S. Is. (»* TELEOBAfit—I-BEB3 ASSOCIATION.) • ' _ . Auckland, January 6. The local Italian disaster relief fund totals nearly £500.' I • SPECIAL CONCERT TO-MORROW NIQHT. , Sympathisers In Wellington have not beßn ; slow to start a movement on behalf of the suffering multitudes of viotims in the recent disaster. Already a relief_ fund has been opened by the Mayor, and it has now been decided to givb a; combined special benefit concert for ! the same object m the Town Hall to-morrow (Friday) night at 8 o'clock. Since the Town Hall has been engaged by the West's Pictures management for the next fortnight it would not be available had not Mr. West generously consented to' forego' his engagement l for. Friday next.' Considering the circumstances, it has buen decided that' lio rent shall be charged by tho City Ooiihcil for the use of tho hall, So that, the funds may receive the largest amount possible. Spe-cially-chosen pictures will bo exhibited by the West's Pictures Management, a.nd other persons desirous of assisting are, requested to communicate with tho Italian Consul, Mr. Roland ; T. Robertson, who is taking nn aotive part in'thp arrangement of the concert. - .