EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1842, 24 August 1906, Page 2

EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.

TRESS ASSOCIATION —COYI’HIGHT London, August 22. Tho looting ot Valparaiso was chiefly the work of eeoaped convicts. Many were recaptured, and fifty were shot. The British ooosulate was wreoked, and the Consul elightly injured. Thirty thouaand inhabitants have gone to Santiago, where the Government are arranging to accommodate them. The Chamber of Deputies voted four million'peeos for re.i-sf work. The authorities have requisitioned all provisions, End are distributing them freely to the poorer classes, whose condi tion is appalling. Corpses are lying amidst the burning cinters, foulffig the air.

MR WRAGGE WARNS NEW ZEALAND. Perth, August 23. Mr Clement Wragga says too earthquake in South America is a sign that the Bolar maximum is closing, and the minimum gradually approeching, when pronounced seismic action will be transferred to the Southern Hemisphere, with a declining rainfall. Snoh aotion is due to etberie waves set up by solar conditions, which control the earth’s inherent foroes, and emanate from particular meridians of the sun. More earthquakes may be expected, ecpecially south from the equator, during the uex» few years. New Zealand should take reasonable precautions. Mounts Erebus and Terror will probably be in eruption later on, but south-west Australia has no oausa for alarm.

SHOCKS IN UPPER SILESIA.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 10.16 p.m’, Augusr 23. London, August 23. Earthquake shocks have been experienced in Calabria, Upper Silesia.