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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4385, 13 March 1909, Page 2

A grim sfory—which in a less intelligent age (says the London Christian World) would have been taken as a record of Divine vengeance comes from the seat of the earthquake. The whole staff of the comic paper 11 Telerono, were crushed to death at Messina. In the issue of the paper on Christmas Eve ribald fun was made of the religious observations of the season, and an atrocious parody of a popular Christmas hymn was painted. Strangely enough —in the light of subsequent events—the hymn concluded with a mocking prayer to the “ Bambino tho Christchild—to send a mighty earthquake I j