British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 October 1913, Page 4

British and Foreign

[ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, COPYRIGHT.] [I'Jilt I'RESS ASSOCIATION.] " MODERNISED" CHINA. Peking, October T. Lobby estimates agree that two hundred votes, purchased last week, exercised a decisive influence in the Presidential election. The public are absolutely iiidiilerent to the election. A photographer in the gallery without warning took a flashlight photograph ol' the linal voting. The magnesium light was taken for a bomb, and was the signal for a wild panic. "NEVER WILL BE MISSED." New York, October T. Miss Marie Lloyd was granted admission to the United States after an appeal to the Immigration Department, but refused to land, and returned to England. SHOULD 11UMO UK US. London, October T. Wickham's report 011 the New Zealand trade of is published. lie counsels the English manufacturers to humour the whims and prejudices of colonial customers, even if the stipulations seem absurd. MESSiNA EAIiTIIQ I ■ AlvE. London, October 7. The Daily Chronicle's Messina correspondent gives a vivid description of the desolation existing there. The Italian Government a. year ago voted a hundred thousand sterling to repair the ravages of the great earthquake, but the contractors did not start the wharves which are still shrunken and the quay sides shattered. The marine parade is encumbered with rubbish due to the 150 feet tidal wave. .Nevertheless the natural advantages of the place arc such that the trade of the port is already greater than before the disaster. The cathedral of which the gem laden altar alone cost t' I lit), 000, is in ruins. Twenty-two pillars of the Temple id' Neptune and Charybdis lie smashed on the pavement. Night watch men armed with revolvers guard the nuns, but many mosaics and statues have been plundered. Twenty-seven nuTlmn sterling ill treasure has already been recovered from the ruins including eighty thousand from one small firm. .Few Sicilians as a rule inve: '.villi the bank. They prefer t conceal their hoards in sackl'uls. In consequence coins. Orient; bonds. exquisite jewels, an pearls have been found. Thirty thousand bodies arc r< covered and many of llie disintei red are shockingly carbonised b the eruption. In other c;is< there are unmistakeabTe sign that the victims survived o chance food for days and weeks. Thirteen hundred bodies wer buried in a room a hundred b thirty feet.